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by MBAorBust » Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:44 pm
Hi all,
If you don't know the answer right away lets say after a minute or two, is it better to continue working and try to get the answer correct and risk not finishing the exam? Or is it better to just make an educated guess and continue? Let me know what you all think...
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by vivecan2005 » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:48 pm
MBAorBust wrote:Hi all,
If you don't know the answer right away lets say after a minute or two, is it better to continue working and try to get the answer correct and risk not finishing the exam? Or is it better to just make an educated guess and continue? Let me know what you all think...
It is actually a great question. The Answer will be a typical Harvard style "It depends". Sometimes you get stuck on few questions before exam ends and you have enough time, in that case you may take more time. In other circumstance answer will be no. Just guess smartly and move on.
The first situation is rare and happens once in a while where you have done alsmost all questions and few left and you have plenty of time.

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by JasLamba » Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:44 am
Hi,

Check these articles out:

https://www.gmathacks.com/cat-strategy/g ... ption.html
https://www.gmathacks.com/math-strategy/ ... egies.html
https://www.gmathacks.com/reading-compre ... tions.html

They are brief. Hope they help.

Jas
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by MBAorBust » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:26 pm
Thanks guys! very insightful, I think I will adopt the strategy of making educated guesses past two minutes.
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