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04 Jun 2014, 00:35
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Hi experts,
I have given mocks as seen in my signature.
I have bought GMATPrep Exam pack and question pack.
I am not getting good accuracy and a particular successful strategy in CR, so I need advise for below two questions.
(1). My G-Day is on 14th July, so shall I start Question pack for CR or should I do that combining it with RC/SC in the last 14 days.
(2). I have exploited one GMAT Prep exam pack 1, so I want to keep another one for the last weekend before the exam.
(3). Since I have done OG several times, practicing from OG seems repetitive and I am unable to pick a strategy that I would apply in exam since I know answer to each question of OG before even completely reading the stimulus.
So the major questions are should I exploit Exam pack and question pack of CR fully.
Please advise !
Rgds,
TGC!
I have given mocks as seen in my signature.
I have bought GMATPrep Exam pack and question pack.
I am not getting good accuracy and a particular successful strategy in CR, so I need advise for below two questions.
(1). My G-Day is on 14th July, so shall I start Question pack for CR or should I do that combining it with RC/SC in the last 14 days.
(2). I have exploited one GMAT Prep exam pack 1, so I want to keep another one for the last weekend before the exam.
(3). Since I have done OG several times, practicing from OG seems repetitive and I am unable to pick a strategy that I would apply in exam since I know answer to each question of OG before even completely reading the stimulus.
So the major questions are should I exploit Exam pack and question pack of CR fully.
Please advise !
Rgds,
TGC!
05 Jun 2014, 11:49
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TGC
Dear TGC,
I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties, and I am happy to help.
First of all, if you have time, I definitely would recommend reading the Economist magazine every week, looking for arguments. There arguments there are subtle and sophisticated, much like the CR arguments on the GMAT. When you read an article there, think about: what's the premise, conclusion, and assumption? what would strengthen or weaken the argument? what would allow us to evaluate the argument? what can we infer that is not explicitly stated? These are questions you should be asking of any argument you encounter right now.
In approaching GMAT CR, it's also helpful to have a general background idea of how the real world works. It's not that you need specific background knowledge to answer any particular question, but if you have good intuition for the "push and pull" of the real world, that will allow you to be more efficient in GMAT CR. Here's the first of a series of articles I wrote providing this background:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-supply-and-demand/
There are many other articles on that free blog about GMAT CR that you may find helpful.
For more practice, I would recommend the OG Verbal Review book --- a whole new batch of official questions to practice.
Also, here's a GMAT CR practice question:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3418
When you submit your answer, the following page will have a full video explanation. Each one of Magoosh's practice questions has its own video explanation: this allows for accelerated learning, because you learn about strategies appropriate to that particular problem.
I hope all this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.
Mike
05 Jun 2014, 22:30
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Responding to a pm:
Before worrying about practice material, think about why you are facing troubles in CR. There is some gap in understanding - rather than waiting for it to click one of these days, try to proactively find it. I would suggest you to put up the questions which you were unable to solve - let people give their views and pm me the link as well. Since you are familiar with the Veritas techniques, I could direct you on how to use those on the questions you find difficult. Get to the root of the problem.
As for practice problems, once you review some tough questions with people and hopefully, have a better understanding, get going on the question pack. Keep nothing for the last minute. At the last minute, you may not get time to do those questions. Also, practice problems bring your weaknesses into focus - you need time to work on your weaknesses. Last week before the actual test should be spent revising, reviewing etc.
Again, you should not be taking a test on the last weekend before the exam. What will you gain out of it? If you find out your prep is not up to the mark in certain topics, you wont have time to redo those topics. Take your last practice test at least 10 days before the actual GMAT.
If you have done OG multiple times, leave it for the time being. If there are questions you still don't understand well, discuss them on the forum/with friends etc. You can come back to it in the last week for review after going through all the other prep material you have.
