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635 to 755 in eight weeks, and the one thing I'd tell my June self
Numbers first, because that's what everyone scrolls for. After less than a month of prep, June 17: 635 (Q80, V81, DI83). Then, August 14: 755 (Q88, V85, DI89). About eight weeks in between, working full time the whole way.
I'll skip the part where I tell you to practice every day. You already know that. I did it, it mattered. Resources were almost entirely official: the Official Guide, the official question banks, the official mocks.
What I actually want to write about is harder to put into words, and I couldn't have said it in June.
For the first attempt I treated every question as a small task I had to do to get to the score. Open a set, do 20, check answers. Log the error ones. Review.
Then somewhere in July, and I can't tell you the exact day, something shifted. I noticed that I was a slightly different person than I'd been a few weeks earlier. I found myself testing a claim in a work document the way I'd test a Critical Reasoning answer choice. Once I caught myself in that moment, it was kind of like getting goosebumps. The prep was improving how I thought, and that realization did something to me.
After that, I looked forward to sitting down with a set. Not because I was disciplined, but because I wanted to see how the next question would improve me. A hard Data Sufficiency problem stopped being an obstacle and became a puzzle someone had built specifically to sharpen a part of my brain, and I was curious which part. I'd finish a session and feel like I'd gained something, not lost a late evening. The days I'd forced myself through in June were replaced by days I had to force myself to stop.
I honestly think that's where the 120 points came from. Not from a new strategy, not from more hours. From the fact that a person who enjoys every question pays full attention to every question, and full attention for weeks compounds.
I don't know how to tell someone to enjoy it. I don't think you can decide to. But I do think the switch is there for most people, and it flips the moment you notice that the process is making you smarter, not just better at a test. If you're stuck at 635 or 655 and putting in the hours, maybe stop asking whether you got the last one right and start paying attention to whether you're a sharper thinker than you were last month. If the answer is yes, you'll want to keep going. If you want to keep going, the score follows. You wouldn't believe but even after the exam, I keep solving the question banks for fun.
Find the switch. Happy to answer anything.
Numbers first, because that's what everyone scrolls for. After less than a month of prep, June 17: 635 (Q80, V81, DI83). Then, August 14: 755 (Q88, V85, DI89). About eight weeks in between, working full time the whole way.
I'll skip the part where I tell you to practice every day. You already know that. I did it, it mattered. Resources were almost entirely official: the Official Guide, the official question banks, the official mocks.
What I actually want to write about is harder to put into words, and I couldn't have said it in June.
For the first attempt I treated every question as a small task I had to do to get to the score. Open a set, do 20, check answers. Log the error ones. Review.
Then somewhere in July, and I can't tell you the exact day, something shifted. I noticed that I was a slightly different person than I'd been a few weeks earlier. I found myself testing a claim in a work document the way I'd test a Critical Reasoning answer choice. Once I caught myself in that moment, it was kind of like getting goosebumps. The prep was improving how I thought, and that realization did something to me.
After that, I looked forward to sitting down with a set. Not because I was disciplined, but because I wanted to see how the next question would improve me. A hard Data Sufficiency problem stopped being an obstacle and became a puzzle someone had built specifically to sharpen a part of my brain, and I was curious which part. I'd finish a session and feel like I'd gained something, not lost a late evening. The days I'd forced myself through in June were replaced by days I had to force myself to stop.
I honestly think that's where the 120 points came from. Not from a new strategy, not from more hours. From the fact that a person who enjoys every question pays full attention to every question, and full attention for weeks compounds.
I don't know how to tell someone to enjoy it. I don't think you can decide to. But I do think the switch is there for most people, and it flips the moment you notice that the process is making you smarter, not just better at a test. If you're stuck at 635 or 655 and putting in the hours, maybe stop asking whether you got the last one right and start paying attention to whether you're a sharper thinker than you were last month. If the answer is yes, you'll want to keep going. If you want to keep going, the score follows. You wouldn't believe but even after the exam, I keep solving the question banks for fun.
Find the switch. Happy to answer anything.
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