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by Gurpinder » Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:08 pm
Hey,

I have purchased MGMAT Quantitative Set and the SC book. I realized that the books have practice questions to do at the end of each section. When I am practicing with OG or even the questions in the MGMAT books, after answering a question, what should I take away from the question?

I feel as if I am just doing the questions to DO them. I am getting majority of them right. But I want to be able to apprehend more but I don't know what to take away.

What would you guys suggest, since I am using your books, as to how I should approach each question and what should I try to learn from each question that I get right or wrong.

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by Stacey Koprince » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:49 am
Good question! I'm glad you're thinking about what you're actually learning.

Generally speaking, the questions at the ends of the chapters in the quant and SC books are not designed to mimic the GMAT. Rather, they're designed to test you on the material that you just read about in the chapter - to make sure you know the concepts and techniques before you try OG questions in that same category.

This article describes how to analyze OG and GMAT-format questions:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/a/2009/10/09 ... ce-problem

You can use a simplified version of that to analyze your strategy guide problem sets. Some things won't apply (eg, if the question doesn't have multiple choice answers, then you can't try to eliminate answers), but many of the general ideas - making sure you really understand the content, finding more efficient ways to do things, understanding and learning from your errors, and so on - do apply to the strategy guide problem sets as well.

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by Gurpinder » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:55 am
Thanks for your reply Stacey, the post you reccomended was really helpful. I have another question.

How should I approach SC questions. Since I can't really write down the entire question and along with it why i choose the answer that I did orwhy I didn't choose any of the other options. All I simply write down on my paper while answering these questions is ABCDE and cross off as I scan the answer choices.

But once I begin to analyze the problems after doing about 20 of them, I can't EXACTLY remember what I saw in the other answer choices that lead me to not pick them.

Please advise,

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by Stacey Koprince » Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:22 pm
I would love to help! But we have to follow forum protocol; I can't answer here.

Post your question in the SC or Strategy parts of the forum. Then, send a link to your post to me via PM; I will follow the link and answer your post. FYI: right now, I've got about a 7-day backlog.
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