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20 Oct 2015, 11:53
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Hello Mike
I have 6 days left to prepare for my final exam and I wonder wheter you could provide me some helpful advice on how to design my last days of prep. efficiently. As you may know by now, I went especially through one online course and I also prepared my basic knowledge with the book series from some sources. I absolved several mock exams on Gmatprep in the last days, here are my results:
580 Q42 V28 September 5
650 Q46 V34 September 12
570 Q42 V27 September 19
670 Q44 V38 October 10
690 Q48 V37 October 18
700 Q46 V40 October 19
I am happy because I could improve my verbal over time from 28 to 40 in the last exam. Some questions however start to repeat on gmatprep. So I am not sure if that is a very realistic picture. On each test I have detailed information on time spent etc (see attachement).
You should see my appartment, there are papers on the walls everywhere to remember all the quant-shortcuts needed, now I even start to cover my kitchen with theories to fill the very last gap of knowledge.
As I mentioned, I have 6 days left, I am unsure if the results provided by gmatprep after doing 6 exams with some repeated questions are representative. How should i spend my last hours in preparing?
Maybe you also offer some private tutor session via skype where we could go through the details of my mock exams? Let me know.
Thank you
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I have 6 days left to prepare for my final exam and I wonder wheter you could provide me some helpful advice on how to design my last days of prep. efficiently. As you may know by now, I went especially through one online course and I also prepared my basic knowledge with the book series from some sources. I absolved several mock exams on Gmatprep in the last days, here are my results:
580 Q42 V28 September 5
650 Q46 V34 September 12
570 Q42 V27 September 19
670 Q44 V38 October 10
690 Q48 V37 October 18
700 Q46 V40 October 19
I am happy because I could improve my verbal over time from 28 to 40 in the last exam. Some questions however start to repeat on gmatprep. So I am not sure if that is a very realistic picture. On each test I have detailed information on time spent etc (see attachement).
You should see my appartment, there are papers on the walls everywhere to remember all the quant-shortcuts needed, now I even start to cover my kitchen with theories to fill the very last gap of knowledge.
As I mentioned, I have 6 days left, I am unsure if the results provided by gmatprep after doing 6 exams with some repeated questions are representative. How should i spend my last hours in preparing?
Maybe you also offer some private tutor session via skype where we could go through the details of my mock exams? Let me know.
Thank you
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23 Oct 2015, 10:24
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Dear reto,
I'm happy to respond.
Apologies for not getting back to you sooner: for some reason, when I checked in the Magoosh forum earlier, this message hadn't shown up yet. I'm not sure what was going on.
It's good to see that you showed tremendous improvement in your practice. Here's what I will say. In the last few days, it will be hard to encode a lot of new material in long-term memory. What I would recommend is the following:
1) Do a thorough error review of your most recent exams. Spend 3-5 minutes with each question you got wrong. Exactly what did you not know? Exactly what did you miss or overlook? If you can, write all this out in words---you are not writing so that you have note for later---you are writing to engage the verbal part of your brain and the tactile part of your brain, to make as many connections as possible. Your goal is to understand each mistake so thoroughly that you never make the same mistake again. Covering every mistake it less important: focus more on depth than on breadth at this point. See this blog for further details:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2015/studying-f ... -mistakes/
2) I would say, in these last few days, it is absolutely crucial to practice stress-reduction skills. You know a great deal at this point, and you don't want to be ambushed by stress on test day. Read these series of articles:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/overcome-g ... y-breathe/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/beating-gmat-stress/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/the-gmat-b ... g-picture/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/zen-boot-c ... -the-gmat/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/curiosity- ... n-success/
The deep breathing in particular is crucial: practice this almost continuous between now and the GMAT.
Along these lines, I think it might be counter-productive to spend especially the last 24 hours before the test cramming every last nugget of knowledge into your head. That's a panic-temptations, but I don't think it would actually serve you. My friend, you are already a very intelligent, very talented person. Take that last 24 to relax, to treat yourself. Eat well, get as much sleep as you need, maybe exercise and/or stretch. Allow yourself to be more relaxed and spacious in your thinking, because it is precisely this spaciously that will catalyze your talents.
3) You have worked hard to bring your practice test scores up. That's great. At this point, let go of all attachment to score. Don't even let yourself think about those score numbers between now and the GMAT. Simply focus on doing your best, on being able to bring forth your best. Any emotional energy you devote to thinking about the numerical score is emotional energy you don't have available to excel on the test. It's a deep paradox: fixation on the score is actually something that can make getting a good score a challenge. See this discussion:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/getting-a-good-gmat-score/
My friend, I hope all this helps. I know you have the potential to have a fantastic performance.
Mike
I'm happy to respond.
Apologies for not getting back to you sooner: for some reason, when I checked in the Magoosh forum earlier, this message hadn't shown up yet. I'm not sure what was going on. It's good to see that you showed tremendous improvement in your practice. Here's what I will say. In the last few days, it will be hard to encode a lot of new material in long-term memory. What I would recommend is the following:
1) Do a thorough error review of your most recent exams. Spend 3-5 minutes with each question you got wrong. Exactly what did you not know? Exactly what did you miss or overlook? If you can, write all this out in words---you are not writing so that you have note for later---you are writing to engage the verbal part of your brain and the tactile part of your brain, to make as many connections as possible. Your goal is to understand each mistake so thoroughly that you never make the same mistake again. Covering every mistake it less important: focus more on depth than on breadth at this point. See this blog for further details:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2015/studying-f ... -mistakes/
2) I would say, in these last few days, it is absolutely crucial to practice stress-reduction skills. You know a great deal at this point, and you don't want to be ambushed by stress on test day. Read these series of articles:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/overcome-g ... y-breathe/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/beating-gmat-stress/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/the-gmat-b ... g-picture/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/zen-boot-c ... -the-gmat/
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/curiosity- ... n-success/
The deep breathing in particular is crucial: practice this almost continuous between now and the GMAT.
Along these lines, I think it might be counter-productive to spend especially the last 24 hours before the test cramming every last nugget of knowledge into your head. That's a panic-temptations, but I don't think it would actually serve you. My friend, you are already a very intelligent, very talented person. Take that last 24 to relax, to treat yourself. Eat well, get as much sleep as you need, maybe exercise and/or stretch. Allow yourself to be more relaxed and spacious in your thinking, because it is precisely this spaciously that will catalyze your talents.
3) You have worked hard to bring your practice test scores up. That's great. At this point, let go of all attachment to score. Don't even let yourself think about those score numbers between now and the GMAT. Simply focus on doing your best, on being able to bring forth your best. Any emotional energy you devote to thinking about the numerical score is emotional energy you don't have available to excel on the test. It's a deep paradox: fixation on the score is actually something that can make getting a good score a challenge. See this discussion:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/getting-a-good-gmat-score/
My friend, I hope all this helps. I know you have the potential to have a fantastic performance.
Mike
