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by vikram4689 » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:40 am
i have been studying consistently to get the concepts right and i was able to do that. for all 5 sections PS/DS/CR/SC/RC i was scoring above 85% and around 740-750 in my practice tests. i was planning to give gmat in a week or two. few days back, i got an order at the shop i work and was asked to complete it in 3 days. since work was too much for it to be completed in given time, i delved completely in the work and didn't even think about gmat for those 3 days.

since i have completed the work, i am feeling so low on my gmat ability. i can tell the strategy for each and every question on gmat but seem to have forgotten the rules for SC. my speed on RC to comprehend and my ability to quickly cut through the argument and pre-phrase an answer on CR seem to have eliminated. these questions seem to me as they used to be when i just began my preparation. when i do the questions i am making so many mistakes that i feel angry and shameful when i see them in review. i don't know what happened to me. please advise how can i regain my level.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:43 am
Vikram -

It is literally impossible for you to have forgotten in three days things that you truly learned. It seems as if you are more suffering from a range of emotions. I hear from you fear, frustration, shame, anger. These are all competing with your GMAT procedures are you do these problems.

The first thing is to understand that you still know what you knew before the push at work. It is still there. What you need is some success that will fuel your motivation and your confidence and it will drive out all of these emotions you are feeling.

Go back over questions you have done before. See that you still know how to do them. Remember the techniques you used. Give yourself credit for remembering how these are done. It does not matter than you have seen them before, in fact it is good that you have seen them before. Just remember how you did them. Remember being successful at these questions. Slowly regain your confidence.

Please remember something, when you reboot a computer you do not erase the memory, you just allow the computer to close whatever program has gotten the whole thing stuck. You need a reboot. You have gotten hung up. If you do as I have indicated above and find your footing again you will see that things are not as bad as they seem.

As far as the reboot, it might be nice for you to get a small break for yourself away from both work and the GMAT. If you can do so that would be the place to start. Remember the system gets turned off for at least a moment during the reboot.

First: Relax and reboot (get a little time for yourself)

Second: Success (go back through problems you have already done and find your way again).

That is my humble opinion. I hope it helps.

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by vikram4689 » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:58 am
Thanks David for replying. I was eagerly waiting for some expert to hold my hand. Yesterday, I took 30 days leave from my shop and started reading the articles that motivated me earlier during my preparation. Today, i feel better ,and ,from tomorrow, i will start revising my notes for each section one by one. After completing my revision for one section, i plan to start solving questions again and continue solving questions on that section while i revise next section.

Please share your view on above strategy.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:25 am
vikram -

That sounds like a good plan. I think that getting yourself motivated and correcting your mindset is the most important thing -- it is good that you are going back to what inspired you.

Building on each section is also important since you do not want to feel like you have lost everything again. Do you plan to start with the section that is most natural for you? I would start there.

I think you will do well with this!
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by vikram4689 » Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:21 am
david,
i want to thank you for motivating me when i was feeling that i have lost my gmat brain. after revising verbal for last couple of days, i have gained confidence on verbal though sometimes i make more silly mistakes than before. for e.g. i started a new thread for asking a simple question on comparison and people who are just starting prepration are telling me "dude, its so simple" :) i think all this is due to my worry for verbal section. quant is so natural that i got q50 on gmat without much studying. my earlier verbal score was 32 and i am targeting 46 this time. i plan to focus more on verbal for couple of days so that i gain at least as much confidence as before. since you got V51, would you like to give me any tips..
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by David@VeritasPrep » Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:49 pm
The most important things that you can do on verbal are:

1) Learn to narrow the focus. Unlike Quant where you use every number and every word matters in making the right equation, on Verbal much of the information that they give you is just context, it is just to set the tone and even worse it often gets in your way. I am about to make a series of postings and an article about this topic. (Hopefully in the coming week, so stayed tuned).

2) Make sure that you have a method that allows you to figure out where you are should you lose focus for a couple of seconds. On critical reasoning I like to at least write out a short statement of what the answer choice should do. If I am going to take all the time to unite the conclusion with the evidence and decide what the answer must look like, I want to write that down in a few words so that I do not get confused while going through the answer choices.

3) Habit is your friend. You should have procedures that you use every time on the various question types. The better you are, the more natural something is, the more you can get away with improvising. Sounds like you can improvise on Quant if you want to because it comes naturally. I can do the same on much of the verbal section. But as you are trying to improve on Verbal, you need to have procedures that you use each time so that you can do your best on something that is challenging. Take some time next time you are studying and instead of doing sets of problems do a couple of problems in "slow motion" and take note of the steps that you use.

Those are some thoughts. I am glad that you are back in the game and ready to win!
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