I agree, this is a great look at how to do well on the test. It's easy to get obsessed with studying every possible shred of GMAT material you can get your hands on. Many students do this and then overlook the simple psychology of how to perform well.
Well done, both on the test and on a very accurate and insightful debrief.
740 / 50Q / 41V - Advice about Psychology of Exam
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forgetneoiamtheone
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I took Gmatprep1 and it shook my confidence in Quant a little(Q49).gileyal wrote:That's excellent. Keep pushing. If you are anything like me, you will find that most of your mistakes are in certain fields. Use Quiz Bank wisely to figure out which of the fields are problematic and study them as if you know nothing about them (I actually opened the kaplan book and redid the entire chapters, then went back to QB and created a new quiz to make sure I improved).jsl wrote:Hopefully, I can get a really good score on my "clean" take of GMATPrep 2 in a few weeks. Additionally, I have access to QBank so I'll be using it in similar way to you - thanks for the tip.
I have significantly improved quant from 18th percentile to consistently achieving 80th percentile and I agree that although verbal can be improved, it is more difficult as it is a bit greyer than quant.
Don't leave any field until you are getting 90% in it.
Save GMATPREP2 for two days before the exam. If you need to, do GMATPREP1 over and over, but don't waste GMATPREP2 - it is a tremendous confidence builder. Getting a 760 was the only thing that let me sleep the night before the exam.
Do I have to re-install the GMATprep software before I re-take GMATprep1 test? Or should I just discard the answers from previous attempt and re-take the test?
I just want to make sure that I will have a clean sample of GMATprep2 for later.
Any advice will be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Hi,
If you are taking GMATPREP2 after taking GMATPREP1 you will not see any repeat questions.
If you are taking one of those a second time, I believe you will see repeat questions no matter what you do. My advice is to just re-solve them as if it is the first time you have seen them and then discount 20 to 40 points from your final grade based on how many repeats you have seen.
If you are taking GMATPREP2 after taking GMATPREP1 you will not see any repeat questions.
If you are taking one of those a second time, I believe you will see repeat questions no matter what you do. My advice is to just re-solve them as if it is the first time you have seen them and then discount 20 to 40 points from your final grade based on how many repeats you have seen.
