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How do others keep track of timing without marking the time before each question to ensure you are not passing 90s/2 minute mark? I feel like I am constantly looking at the clock and wasting time to see how I am doing relative to my "Checkpoints" I've noted on my test pad...
19 Jul 2020, 08:12
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Hey,
I believe the best way to do time management is to think of the exam in blocks. And only check time as per those blocks. You can choose to divide them in 3 or 4 as per your preference. It is difficult to say always follow a 2-minute limit because your priority is to get the question right while not sabotaging the whole exam. Easier questions can take less than 2 mins so that you can reinvest that time on harder questions. If you fixate too much on timing per question, you might end up guessing and hurting your score.
One Tip - Any practice that you do henceforth, focus on timing it always. ALWAYS. Also, focus on solving same number of questions as per the block. That way, you will flex your muscles to solve as many questions in that pre-defined time frame.
Check this link for more details.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/timing-strat ... ml?fl=menu
Please hit Kudos if helpful.
I believe the best way to do time management is to think of the exam in blocks. And only check time as per those blocks. You can choose to divide them in 3 or 4 as per your preference. It is difficult to say always follow a 2-minute limit because your priority is to get the question right while not sabotaging the whole exam. Easier questions can take less than 2 mins so that you can reinvest that time on harder questions. If you fixate too much on timing per question, you might end up guessing and hurting your score.
One Tip - Any practice that you do henceforth, focus on timing it always. ALWAYS. Also, focus on solving same number of questions as per the block. That way, you will flex your muscles to solve as many questions in that pre-defined time frame.
Check this link for more details.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/timing-strat ... ml?fl=menu
Please hit Kudos if helpful.
19 Jul 2020, 10:10
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Hello, CAgmat441. I am surprised that you were surprised by your score, since it fell perfectly in line with the range of scores you listed at the bottom of your post. Sure, 47/38 was at the lower end of both Quant and Verbal, but at the same time, your practice results are the best indicator of your eventual exam results. Also, as your post heading touches on, test-day anxiety cannot be overlooked when projecting a score. It is quite common to see a 20-30-point drop in performance from mocks to the real thing, although in your case, with two previous attempts under your belt, I would not expect to see such a drop.
How do you fix the issues? I agree with what has been written above about time management. When you time yourself per block instead of per question, you are less likely to fuel anxious about going too slow or checking too much. You may also find mindfulness techniques to be of use. Look away from the screen for a second, take a deep breath and let it out. Maybe you will have a test-day mantra. Mindfulness works. When you can focus on the question at hand instead of all the other junk attached to a GMAT™ score, you are able to perform better.
You did not mention practicing OG questions over the next phase of your prep plan. Is there a reason for that? The OG and official CATs are the best resources for GMAT™ prep. If you have exhausted a more recent edition, then find questions listed in an older one that you have not seen before. Many questions drop out from year to year, but it is not because they are no longer indicative of what you can expect to see. GMAC™ just wants to sell more books, so it finds ways to more or less reshuffle the deck, trimming a few questions and adding a couple more. Comb through the question directory and tag only the official sources for a given category. If you focus on qualitative study over studying for so many hours a day or completing so many questions a day, you can make demonstrable gains in a short period of time, particularly at the level at which you are testing. Getting to the core of why you are missing problems is more important than the what at this stage.
Good luck to you. I hope that in your next retake, the pendulum swings the other way and I get to read a debrief with some exclamation marks. Make it happen.
- Andrew
How do you fix the issues? I agree with what has been written above about time management. When you time yourself per block instead of per question, you are less likely to fuel anxious about going too slow or checking too much. You may also find mindfulness techniques to be of use. Look away from the screen for a second, take a deep breath and let it out. Maybe you will have a test-day mantra. Mindfulness works. When you can focus on the question at hand instead of all the other junk attached to a GMAT™ score, you are able to perform better.
You did not mention practicing OG questions over the next phase of your prep plan. Is there a reason for that? The OG and official CATs are the best resources for GMAT™ prep. If you have exhausted a more recent edition, then find questions listed in an older one that you have not seen before. Many questions drop out from year to year, but it is not because they are no longer indicative of what you can expect to see. GMAC™ just wants to sell more books, so it finds ways to more or less reshuffle the deck, trimming a few questions and adding a couple more. Comb through the question directory and tag only the official sources for a given category. If you focus on qualitative study over studying for so many hours a day or completing so many questions a day, you can make demonstrable gains in a short period of time, particularly at the level at which you are testing. Getting to the core of why you are missing problems is more important than the what at this stage.
Good luck to you. I hope that in your next retake, the pendulum swings the other way and I get to read a debrief with some exclamation marks. Make it happen.
- Andrew
