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by sepandsalimi » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:00 pm
Dear Friends:
First of all I have to say that English is my second language, I am in Canada for 1 years, my GPA is 3.9 and I have a master degree in Business international Marketing and 10 years managerial work experience back home. The first time that I took the test was last year and I ended up 460.I just need 570 to get into MBA and I know that I am slow in verbal section so what if I omit the reading comprehension questions which is my real weakness and assist its time to critical reasoning and sentence correction. Akso I have to say that last time I got 64% in mat and I am working on it to get a better result.
I would appreciate to know your great hints in this regard.

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by JasLamba » Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:22 am
I would not suggest OMITTING the RC section as it is very important to your total score. Try your best to manage time in SC and CR to have more time in RC.

RC is important - think about it this way... in your MBA you will be reading lots of dense material so preparing now is a good warm up for whats coming up next. I read somewhere that prepping for the GMAT is the "start" of your MBA... I find this to be quite accurate in a way.

OMITTING the RC section can have severe repercussions on your score due to the adaptive nature of the exam. If you get several incorrect answers in a row your score will be hurt dramatically. On the flip side, if you manage to guess correctly you will have an inflated score which is not a true reflection of your ability. So, it is essentially a double edged sword.

Think of RC as being the only questions to which the answers are right in front of your eyes. They are fixed this is the beauty of RC.

Given your particular situation, I suggest you become a master in SC and CR questions to answer them quickly and efficiently - this will allow you to get points and save time. This saved time can be used to tackle the RC questions. Perhaps you can develop a strategy to omit CERTAIN type of questions that give you most difficulty in the passage. You could omit the EXCEPT questions which sometimes require 4 times the effort as you have to search for the options in the passage. You could omit the inference questions if you have a tough time making the logical leaps. You could get by by omitting certain types of questions but no the whole section. Maybe you could omit 1 passage and have more time distributed for your other 3 passages. You should practice many tests to get an idea of what the ideal scenario will be.

Hope it helps.
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by gmattering » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:21 am
JasLamba wrote:I would not suggest OMITTING the RC section as it is very important to your total score. Try your best to manage time in SC and CR to have more time in RC.

RC is important - think about it this way... in your MBA you will be reading lots of dense material so preparing now is a good warm up for whats coming up next. I read somewhere that prepping for the GMAT is the "start" of your MBA... I find this to be quite accurate in a way.

OMITTING the RC section can have severe repercussions on your score due to the adaptive nature of the exam. If you get several incorrect answers in a row your score will be hurt dramatically. On the flip side, if you manage to guess correctly you will have an inflated score which is not a true reflection of your ability. So, it is essentially a double edged sword.

Think of RC as being the only questions to which the answers are right in front of your eyes. They are fixed this is the beauty of RC.

Given your particular situation, I suggest you become a master in SC and CR questions to answer them quickly and efficiently - this will allow you to get points and save time. This saved time can be used to tackle the RC questions. Perhaps you can develop a strategy to omit CERTAIN type of questions that give you most difficulty in the passage. You could omit the EXCEPT questions which sometimes require 4 times the effort as you have to search for the options in the passage. You could omit the inference questions if you have a tough time making the logical leaps. You could get by by omitting certain types of questions but no the whole section. Maybe you could omit 1 passage and have more time distributed for your other 3 passages. You should practice many tests to get an idea of what the ideal scenario will be.

Hope it helps.

i plan to focus more on SC and CR .. esp SC which to me is quick wins. i am weak in RC and esp when the passage is long and abstract (involves scientific content), i get lost easily. I plan to assess the RC when i get it to gauge the "confusion" factor and scan through and "mind-map" the passage, if i find it difficult and really hv a hard time answering the qn, i will try to eliminate as many choices as possible, make educated guess and move on. can't afford to let RC jeopardise the CR/SC portion
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by TheGMATCoach » Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:19 pm
Whatever you do - DO NOT SKIP/OMIT QUESTIONS!!

The GMAT doesn't like that...at all.

Some quick/easy tips:

- Consider getting a tutor
- Read Read Read newspapers, HBS case studies, etc
- Focus on making your strengths even stronger
- Go backwards through the questions, meaning go through the OG and read the answers first, then try to understand why the right answer is the right answer by reading the question

Hope that helps!

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