hi, i received a private message about this thread.
here are some thoughts in regard to what's been written in recent posts:
karan_s wrote:1. Materials-> all Exhausted.
that's unlikely -- there are lots of other things you can do with the materials.
see here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/last-2-weeks ... tml#473730
2. No time to relax and i need to start prep again so that i don't loose momentum. No more month's leave from work ( happens once in a lifetime)
regarding this, i've got good news and bad news.
the good news is that this idea is wrong: no, you won't "lose momentum".
in fact, the GMAT is a test on which that's basically impossible. you could walk away from RC or CR for several
years and "lose" nothing at all -- because there's nothing
to lose in the first place.
as for SC, you could walk away from that for at least a few months, too, without losing any relevant skills -- unless you don't have any other contact with formal written English.
in quant, unless you think you are in danger of forgetting your high-school mathematics (which, given your score of Q48, you clearly aren't), there's also no possibility of "losing momentum", unless you walk away for, say, ten years and you forget completely what "Sufficient" and "Not Sufficient" mean.
the bad news is that, if you
do think this is an issue, then you fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the GMAT exam.
in other words, if you are worried about "losing momentum", that means you haven't taken the time to truly understand
what this test is, and what skills it requires (or doesn't require).
read here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/580-re-take- ... tml#480613
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in fact, not only is the idea of "losing momentum" wrong, but the opposite is true -- that is, you actually
should take some time (at least a couple of weeks) completely away from the gmat before you pick up the books again.
basically, the deal with CR and RC is this: the total amount of
knowledge that you need for CR and RC problems is exactly zero. there's not a single fact that you have to memorize/recall/know, nor are there recognizable "templates" or "patterns" in the problems.
as a result, there's only so much productive studying you can do in those two areas. basically, all you can do is this:
1/ Achieve a
general understanding of how each major task works;
2/ Understand the
general mentality with which you should (or shouldn't) approach each major task;
3/ Get to the point where that is actually your default mentality.
... and that's it. once you've done these three things, there's really no more "preparation" that you can do for CR and RC; from that point onward, it's a matter of
thinking and
reasoning.
the problem with studying for too long is that, eventually, you are going to get bored and start trying to find "patterns" or "rules" that solve the problems. once that starts to happen, any further studying of RC or CR will actually have a
negative effect on your score, because these faux "rules"/"patterns" (which don't, and can't, actually solve the problems) will start to crowd out the thought processes that actually
do solve the problems.
so, basically, if you've been studying for that long, the first thing you need to do is step away from the test (esp. the verbal section) for a while. then, once you return, you should concentrate only on the types of things i've mentioned here -- since that's really all there is.
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good luck.
