GMAT Strategy

Silly mistakes are a direct result of not going through the question clearly or making faulty calculations. Both can be minimized by spending time on every question. I am planning to spend at the most 2 minutes per question, and on rare occasions up to 4 minutes for those where I know that I am close to the answer but not quite there. But such questions are those one odd 700+ questions in the beginning. I am going to strictly move on if I am spending more time. I somehow need to internalize the thumb rule for quant:
11 => 51-55 minutes of clock time remaining
22 => 31-35
33 => 5 - 10


I don't have much problem with Verbal timing but quant is an issue as of now. I wonna know how other people deal with time management, their cutoffs etc..

I had the same timing strategy when i took the GMAT..

Question to be on : Clock reading

0 : 75 mins
10 : 50 mins
20 : 30 mins
30 : 12 mins
35 : 3 mins

But when i took the test, I couldn't check this everytime. So I toned it down to 3 milestones, 15th ques (~45mins), 25th ques(~25mins) and 30th ques(~14mins). I think these are sufficient to catch up or to relax!!!

How about I carry an electronic ring on one of my fingers that beeps every 2 minutes? Is that cheating?

Try to practice with your preferred timing so you intuitively know when your time is up. Then you won't be preoccupied with the clock.

yogami wrote:How about I carry an electronic ring on one of my fingers that beeps every 2 minutes? Is that cheating?

it's not allowed in exam room.