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01 Aug 2013, 20:51
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HELP Guys,
I got the reference of this forum from fozzy. I wanted some help, it will be great if you can assist me here.
I have exactly 1 month left for my GMAT exam and I have been scoring around 600 in mocks. I have given score 800(1) , Power prep and GMAT prep. I have been doing well in maths with a score of 48, but in verbal (where my concepts are clear except RC) I have problems in speed and timing. I have never finished an exam without marking fake answers. And now that my speed has improved my accuracy has gone down to 50% from 65%. I have built stamina to sit for 3.5 hours and adjusted to the computer screen properly, but I would like you to suggest me a way in which I can improve both speed and accuracy in verbal. Verbal I have been scoring 23 with aroung 18 wrong answers for the past 7 days.
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Aditya Kushwaha
I got the reference of this forum from fozzy. I wanted some help, it will be great if you can assist me here.
I have exactly 1 month left for my GMAT exam and I have been scoring around 600 in mocks. I have given score 800(1) , Power prep and GMAT prep. I have been doing well in maths with a score of 48, but in verbal (where my concepts are clear except RC) I have problems in speed and timing. I have never finished an exam without marking fake answers. And now that my speed has improved my accuracy has gone down to 50% from 65%. I have built stamina to sit for 3.5 hours and adjusted to the computer screen properly, but I would like you to suggest me a way in which I can improve both speed and accuracy in verbal. Verbal I have been scoring 23 with aroung 18 wrong answers for the past 7 days.
Regards,
Aditya Kushwaha
01 Aug 2013, 23:27
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Hi Aditya,
I'm sure you have been practicing a lot of questions and taking many tests. Yet, your performance is not consistent. What does this tell you?
That more practice is not the answer to your problem.
The first thing you need to do is to go over the questions you have already solved - analyze each one, whether you got them right or wrong. If you got a qn wrong, identify what concepts it tests and what you missed. If you had to choose between B and D, picked B, but the answer was D, then identify the delta between B and D - what was wrong in option B that you missed? What did you assume was wrong in the right ans choice D?
Similarly, even if you got a question right, make sure that you know why you got it right. It could very well have been a lucky guess; or you would have eliminated other answer choices for some basic errors (like SVA), whereas there are other things wrong with the same answer choice. It is good to learn this so that you can apply this in other questions.
The idea is to have some takeaway from each and every question you solve.
Once you do this analysis for a large number of questions, you will start recognizing patterns in your errors. For e.g. in SC, when modifiers are tested in fully underlined questions, I get confused. At this narrow level of analysis, you can easily figure out the next step. Make notes or cues for yourself that will help you later.
We have created this article on 5 ways in which you can make your prep more effective; you may find it useful:
https://www.crackverbal.com/effective-gmat-prep/
Gowri N Kishore
Verbal Specialist
CrackVerba
I'm sure you have been practicing a lot of questions and taking many tests. Yet, your performance is not consistent. What does this tell you?
That more practice is not the answer to your problem.
The first thing you need to do is to go over the questions you have already solved - analyze each one, whether you got them right or wrong. If you got a qn wrong, identify what concepts it tests and what you missed. If you had to choose between B and D, picked B, but the answer was D, then identify the delta between B and D - what was wrong in option B that you missed? What did you assume was wrong in the right ans choice D?
Similarly, even if you got a question right, make sure that you know why you got it right. It could very well have been a lucky guess; or you would have eliminated other answer choices for some basic errors (like SVA), whereas there are other things wrong with the same answer choice. It is good to learn this so that you can apply this in other questions.
The idea is to have some takeaway from each and every question you solve.
Once you do this analysis for a large number of questions, you will start recognizing patterns in your errors. For e.g. in SC, when modifiers are tested in fully underlined questions, I get confused. At this narrow level of analysis, you can easily figure out the next step. Make notes or cues for yourself that will help you later.
We have created this article on 5 ways in which you can make your prep more effective; you may find it useful:
https://www.crackverbal.com/effective-gmat-prep/
Gowri N Kishore
Verbal Specialist
CrackVerba
