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17 Mar 2008, 03:47
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After 4.5 months of preparation I've took my first full-time GMAT preparation test.
I woke up at 5:00 a.m. (It is impossible for me to have 3 hours for test during a day - my little son does not give me such opportunity
), took 10 min to wash my face and to drink a cup of coffee....
Q51. After 15 questions I had about 10-15 min in reserve (I spent about 1 min per question). Therefore, I easily went trough quant section, but made 2 silly mistakes. The result did not surprise me, because I have a strong math background
V33. I totally lose concentration for the fist part of the section. A few RC texts in social science bowled me over (I got all questions of one of the RC wrong). I spent excess 15 min for fist 20 questions and had to move more quickly to avoid penalties. That led me to mistakes, especially in SC. After revision of my mistakes I found many of them easy ones. Therefore, I think the loss of concentration was the most important factor that pushed my score down.
Actually, It is a huge achievement for me in verbal section (4 month ago I saw CNN as alien broadcasting from Mars and understood only words, such as "Bush", "Hillary" and "Iraq" ).
Now I feel able to boost my verbal score by improving concentration.
Do you have any ideas?
Thank all in advance
I woke up at 5:00 a.m. (It is impossible for me to have 3 hours for test during a day - my little son does not give me such opportunity
), took 10 min to wash my face and to drink a cup of coffee....Q51. After 15 questions I had about 10-15 min in reserve (I spent about 1 min per question). Therefore, I easily went trough quant section, but made 2 silly mistakes. The result did not surprise me, because I have a strong math background
V33. I totally lose concentration for the fist part of the section. A few RC texts in social science bowled me over (I got all questions of one of the RC wrong). I spent excess 15 min for fist 20 questions and had to move more quickly to avoid penalties. That led me to mistakes, especially in SC. After revision of my mistakes I found many of them easy ones. Therefore, I think the loss of concentration was the most important factor that pushed my score down.
Actually, It is a huge achievement for me in verbal section (4 month ago I saw CNN as alien broadcasting from Mars and understood only words, such as "Bush", "Hillary" and "Iraq"
).Now I feel able to boost my verbal score by improving concentration.
Do you have any ideas?
Thank all in advance
17 Mar 2008, 06:09
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Hey Walker, 51 in Q was a given for you. 1 minute a question on quant, I know I won't come anywhere close to that, (46 in M) but what is your strategy? Do you immediately think of the best approach? Didn't think 1 min a Q is possible, but if it is I need to get somewhere close to that
In Verbal, concentration is key and if you are running against the clock in verbal you will get murdered because you will gloss over things. As I stated before in my debrief I thought CR and RC were my strong points going into the test, so I focused heavily on SC, but I really feel it is the CR and RC is what did me in. I need to invest in that much time into CR and RC. I think practicing LSAT questions under GMAT timed conditions is the way to go. That will be my approach from now on. It is commendable though coming from a non english background to accomplish what you did.
In Verbal, concentration is key and if you are running against the clock in verbal you will get murdered because you will gloss over things. As I stated before in my debrief I thought CR and RC were my strong points going into the test, so I focused heavily on SC, but I really feel it is the CR and RC is what did me in. I need to invest in that much time into CR and RC. I think practicing LSAT questions under GMAT timed conditions is the way to go. That will be my approach from now on. It is commendable though coming from a non english background to accomplish what you did.
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Some of the features that I find useful:
1. DS questions were the main source of additional time for me. Sometimes answers popped up in my mind just after I had read question. I think It is because I recognized some typical patterns:
E: - two very complex or similar conditions. I just constructed two examples to support my choice.
A or B: - one condition is simple, like a=3 that is obviously insufficient but help GMAT to misdirect you to C, and other condition is seems to be insufficient but does virtually sufficient.
I think the most useful (and fast) technique is construction of examples.
2. I try always read the question slowly and two or three times, looking for red flags, such as "positive integers", "non-zero", "integers", "prime", "odd", "consecutive even integers", "unequal", "distinct" and so on. They restrict possible set of answers and almost always dramatically influence on right answer (I lose one such trap on my GMATPrep).
3. In geometry I often construct figures in my mind from sticks and hinges and change shape of figures in arbitrary way to find solution.
terp26
Thanks, Terp26
It seems that you and me are in the same boat. Maybe It would be useful to try CR and RC under noisy condition, for example use iPod to listen podcasts? Did you try to do so?
jk
Maybe you have any suggestions? 
