GMAT Strategy

Hi deepakk,

Many Test Takers perform better when doing practice problems than on CATs (or on Test Day), so you're not alone. You're going to have to figure out WHY your skills aren't translating over to the actual GMAT though.

I'm hoping that you can answer a couple of questions:

1) How did you score on your practice CATs?
2) What is your score goal?
3) For Verbal questions, how often are you "narrowing down the answers and then guessing?"

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi deepakk,

I'm hoping that you can tell me a bit more about your practice CATs:

1) What were your Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores on each of your practice CATs? Providing just the overall scores does not give me much of a sense of your strengths, weaknesses or improvement from CAT to CAT.

2) Did you do anything on your practice CATs that varied from what you did on your Official GMAT (such as skipping sections, pausing the CAT, taking the CAT at a different time of day, taking the CAT on a laptop instead of a desktop computer, etc.)? The more details that you can provide, the better.

I asked about the "narrow it down and guess" approach because that is NOT a good way to approach the Verbal section and it can lead to some low outcomes. You need to shift your approach to the Verbal section to focus more on prediction and knowing what the answer is BEFORE you look at the answers than on the "narrow it down" approach you've been using. This will probably require more than another month of study, but your answers to the above questions will help to determine how much time you'll really need.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi deepakk,

I'm hoping that you can tell me a bit more about your practice CATs:

1) What were your Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores on each of your practice CATs? Providing just the overall scores does not give me much of a sense of your strengths, weaknesses or improvement from CAT to CAT.

2) Did you do anything on your practice CATs that varied from what you did on your Official GMAT (such as skipping sections, pausing the CAT, taking the CAT at a different time of day, taking the CAT on a laptop instead of a desktop computer, etc.)? The more details that you can provide, the better.

I asked about the "narrow it down and guess" approach because that is NOT a good way to approach the Verbal section and it can lead to some low outcomes. You need to shift your approach to the Verbal section to focus more on prediction and knowing what the answer is BEFORE you look at the answers than on the "narrow it down" approach you've been using. This will probably require more than another month of study, but your answers to the above questions will help to determine how much time you'll really need.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich