Do GMAT Verbal Practice Untimed
To become better at playing the GMAT Verbal game, you have to develop skill in seeing what’s going on in Verbal questions, and untimed, careful, thorough analysis of questions is the most effective way to develop that skill. In fact, I always recommend that students complete their practice untimed in the earlier stages of their GMAT prep.
The problem with doing timed practice in the earlier stages of your Verbal prep is that two minutes per question is generally not enough time for a novice to fully analyze a question, understand what’s going on in the question, and arrive at the correct answer. So, what happens when people do timed practice is the following. Rather than learn how to analyze and correctly answer questions, they rush through questions, get many incorrect, and then either get the missed ones correct the second time around or learn from explanations what they needed to see and do in order to get them correct.
Watch this YouTube Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/umteXWnqAZc
To become better at playing the GMAT Verbal game, you have to develop skill in seeing what’s going on in Verbal questions, and untimed, careful, thorough analysis of questions is the most effective way to develop that skill. In fact, I always recommend that students complete their practice untimed in the earlier stages of their GMAT prep.
The problem with doing timed practice in the earlier stages of your Verbal prep is that two minutes per question is generally not enough time for a novice to fully analyze a question, understand what’s going on in the question, and arrive at the correct answer. So, what happens when people do timed practice is the following. Rather than learn how to analyze and correctly answer questions, they rush through questions, get many incorrect, and then either get the missed ones correct the second time around or learn from explanations what they needed to see and do in order to get them correct.
Watch this YouTube Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/umteXWnqAZc
