Learn the TTP Streaks Method
Once you’ve practiced for a while, you’ll likely be able to correctly answer most questions involving each GMAT Focus topic.
However, while getting, say, 70 or 80 percent of questions correct may seem to indicate that you’re strong in a topic, the truth is that you can get even 80 percent of the questions you see correct by getting only 3 or 4 questions correct in a row at a time. After all, if in answering 10 questions, you get 3 correct, miss 1, get another 4 correct, miss one, and get the last 1 correct, you just got 80 percent correct.
So, getting 80 percent of practice questions in a topic correct doesn’t mean that you’re highly skilled in that topic. After all, if you typically get only 3 or 4 questions of a type correct in a row, then you haven’t really mastered that topic.
So, what’s the move? One move you can make is to use the TTP Streaks Method.
How the TTP Streaks Method Works:
The TTP Streaks Method of practicing for the GMAT Focus involves shooting for streaks of correct answers. The rationale underlying the method is that, if you can get questions involving a topic correct in long streaks, then you’ve mastered that topic. So, to practice by using the Streaks Method, you keep working on a question type until you get questions of that type correct in long streaks.
For example, say you were working on Assumption questions. You could do easy Assumption questions until you got 15 correct in a row. Then you could do medium Assumption questions until you got 15 correct in a row. Finally, you could do hard Assumption questions until you got 10 correct in a row. At that point, you would be confident that you had mastered Assumption questions.
This 15 easy, 15 medium, and 10 hard questions correct in a row pattern has been shown to indicate that a test-taker is strong in a topic. If you want to score extremely high on the GMAT Focus, you could shoot for longer streaks, such as 20 easy, 20 medium, and 15 hard. Or if you have a relatively modest score goal, you could shoot for 10 easy, 10 medium, and 5 hard.
Whatever streak lengths you shoot for, the key is to keep working on a category until you achieve your streak.
Remember that the TTP Streaks method works well whether you’re doing GMAT Focus practice questions timed or untimed. As long as you get questions correct in long streaks, it doesn’t matter how long you take per question. The point of using the Streaks Method is simply to learn to do whatever it takes to be consistent.
Reach out to me with any questions about the GMAT Focus. Happy studying!
Warmest regards,
Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep
