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Amazing progress! Could you share more about "He told me to avoid writing as much as possible"? So when you see a DS question, you would try to keep track of as much info as possible mentally VS on your scratchpad?

Why do you think this worked for you?

Essentially, I stopped calculating by avoiding writing.

Most DS questions don't require you to calculate.

Given the information without calculating, you can judge if you can figure out the answer.

Also, people typically think faster than they can write.

Still, my Q is very far from perfect, as you can see from my score.

I missed many questions that I would have gotten correctly by fully calculating.

It was choosing time management over accuracy.

I have never encountered a GMAT Q question that I couldn't solve, but I am not fast enough to solve it quickly.
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Gratz on the 740. All the best going forward.

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Congrats on the score! 740 is fantastic!
So you are applying in R2 now?
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Congrats on the score! 740 is fantastic!
So you are applying in R2 now?

No, applying in R1. 1 more application to go.
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Hi homiltea,

740 with Q48 is an awesome score.

Congrats!
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