Practice GMAT Quant Untimed to Master Skills and Concepts
The key to mastering GMAT math problems is working on practice questions untimed until your skills improve. The reasoning is simple: if you don’t take the time necessary to reason your way through questions, you don’t actually develop all the necessary skills for answering them.
At first, you may look at a question and not know how to answer it. You may have no idea how to even start solving. Well, getting the answer may take more than two or three minutes. So, guess what? If you give yourself only two or three minutes, you let yourself off the hook. You go to the explanation to get the answer, and you don’t learn to find the answer. How can you master problem-solving strategies if you don’t give yourself time to do so?
Sticking with a question as long as required is an uncomfortable process. But if you want to score high on the GMAT Quant section, it’s a necessary one.
So, when you’re practicing GMAT Quant questions, give yourself the time you need to answer them. Take every opportunity to master skills and learn concepts, even if one question takes you 10 minutes. After you achieve mastery, you can work on answering questions more quickly.
Warmest regards,
Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep
