How Fostering a Growth Mindset Can Help Improve Your GMAT Score
The truth is that you can always develop your basic abilities and other personal qualities. So, much of what you have to do to foster a growth mindset in yourself is to see yourself clearly. For instance, if you think you’re naturally talented in verbal but not in quant, or vice versa, consider your attitudes toward the two topic areas and how much work you’ve put into or exposure you’ve had to each of them. You’ll likely see that there are clear reasons other than natural ability for the differences between your skill levels in the two areas.
It also helps to see others clearly. For instance, if you hear that someone has scored high on the GMAT, rather than be intimidated by that success, seek to understand how that person achieved that success, even if that person seemed to have achieved it without much preparation. You can be sure that that person wasn’t born knowing how to answer GMAT quant questions in two minutes each. He or she prepared somewhere along the line in order to achieve that GMAT score, and you can learn from what that person did, apply what you learn, and achieve a similar score.
Also, understanding the learning process helps. The learning process naturally has easier and more difficult periods, and by understanding that the difficult times are the times when you’re learning the most and literally growing your brain, you’ll more easily embrace those times, persist through them, and develop yourself.
In general, you can keep in mind that it’s only logical that, through practice and hard work, you can develop your abilities. You’ve done so before, and you can do so again.
So, by fostering a growth mindset and seeing your mistakes or any other issues or challenges you run into as opportunities to learn and develop yourself, you’ll master the GMAT and succeed in other areas of life as well.
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Warmest regards,
Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep
