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Psychological effect of last 10-12 minutes on Math

by ameya85 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:42 am
Hello everyone,

I have been appearing for CATs and so far I have taken GmatPrep1, Kaplan Free test, Manhattan 1st ,2nd & 3rd CAT. In almost all CATs I have observed that during last 10-12 minutes in Math section, I get this jittery feeling of getting wrong and this psychologically affects me. I end up solving almost all of them incorrectly. This is seriously denting my score.

I took MGMAT 3 this evening and up to Q 31 I was at 99%ile. But from 32-37 I got only one correct. I ended up getting 86% in the end which otherwise could have been much better. However, when I solve these question in post test analysis I get them all right in less than 2 minutes.

Now the question is how should I get out of this psychological effect and save my score from plunging significantly? A friend of mine suggested to try Manhattan Challenge set question for enhancing my confidence but I am not sure how will it work.

Let me know what you think about it.

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by GMAT Kolaveri » Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:12 am
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by ameya85 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:11 am
GMAT Kolaveri,

Thanks for the reply but I am not concerned about anxiety on the test day. I am facing this issue only on math section. That too only in last 10-12 minutes.

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by lunarpower » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:13 am
i received a private message regarding this thread.

there are really only three pieces of advice i can offer here, and they are all fairly general:

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you really shouldn't think about your "score trajectory" at all, ever.
no good can possibly come from worrying about this -- as you have seen firsthand, the only possible effect it can have is to distract you from the task at hand and ruin your concentration/confidence.
you should try not even to look at the "percentile progressions" on the practice tests. basically, those are in there as a marketing tool -- we have found that more people will buy the practice tests if they have bells and whistles like those -- but, unfortunately, they tend to build the wrong habits. specifically, they encourage people to worry about score trajectories, to over-weight the initial few problems, and so on.

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remember that this is an exam on which it's ok to miss quite a few problems.
this is the nature of an adaptive exam: you don't have to get everything right, or even close.

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your mission is basically to treat every problem in the same way as every other problem.

good luck.
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