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Ever wonder what the right strategy is if you are running out at the end of a section? Should you guess? Should you leave the questions blank? Should you rush through and attempt all of the questions.
I provide one answer to that question in this article from the Veritas Prep Blog.
"Running out of Time at the End of the Test
There is a famous quote from Rudyard Kipling that goes something like: "If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs then you can outscore them on the GMAT." Okay he may not have been talking about the GMAT 100 years ago, but the sentiment is correct. Please read on:
So you are running out of time. This happens to most people, especially on the Quant section but on the verbal as well. What do you do if you have, for example, 12 minutes left and 10 questions to go on the Quant section? The short answer: spend the time needed to get as many right as you can and guess at the rest. Say, 2 minutes each on 6 questions and guess at four. Or perhaps you get some shorter questions and you can do 1:30 on 8 questions and only guess at the last 2.
The two things not to do are
*panic and spend 1 minute rushing through each question and likely miss most of them.
*panic and spend 4 minutes each on the next three questions and leave 7 of them blank.
In other words, "don't panic!"
The rest of the article is on the Veritas Prep Blog at https://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/12 ... -the-test/
I provide one answer to that question in this article from the Veritas Prep Blog.
"Running out of Time at the End of the Test
There is a famous quote from Rudyard Kipling that goes something like: "If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs then you can outscore them on the GMAT." Okay he may not have been talking about the GMAT 100 years ago, but the sentiment is correct. Please read on:
So you are running out of time. This happens to most people, especially on the Quant section but on the verbal as well. What do you do if you have, for example, 12 minutes left and 10 questions to go on the Quant section? The short answer: spend the time needed to get as many right as you can and guess at the rest. Say, 2 minutes each on 6 questions and guess at four. Or perhaps you get some shorter questions and you can do 1:30 on 8 questions and only guess at the last 2.
The two things not to do are
*panic and spend 1 minute rushing through each question and likely miss most of them.
*panic and spend 4 minutes each on the next three questions and leave 7 of them blank.
In other words, "don't panic!"
The rest of the article is on the Veritas Prep Blog at https://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2012/12 ... -the-test/
So it is advisable to work on the questions we know and skip the ones we do not know even if we are running out of time .. but what if the time left is not sufficient to work on the problems we know ? Do you recommend finishing the test anyway or still working on the ones we can win even if we do not finish ? Thanks in advance
