some thoughts here:
coolmrityu wrote:
SC - Sincerely followed the MGMAT SC (4th Edition/2012) solving the questions (OG 12) Chapter / Topic wise. Went through some of the Fantastic video of THURSDAY WITH RON.
so... the wisdom of this plan depends on exactly what you mean by "topic-wise".
if "topic-wise" means that you
looked at lists of problems by topic, and then went and did the problems in the list, ... well, that's not a great way to do things.
the problem, of course, is that most of the difficulty/challenge in SC lies in
recognizing the concepts that are being tested. the concepts themselves are all pretty simple; it's
finding them that is the issue.
so, if you are going through a list of problems that are all guaranteed to contain the same topic, that's basically "cheating", in the sense that you're giving yourself an unfair advantage that you simply won't have on test day.
if you are seriously struggling with a certain topic, then it makes sense to do
a few problems from a list, just to give yourself a better orientation in that topic.
but, as soon as you are off the ground even a little bit, you should try to recognize the topic(s) WITHOUT reading the problem numbers off a list. because that's what you're going to have to do on test day.
if you want to do things topic-wise, try this:
* go through a bunch of problems WITHOUT a list
* focus on one topic, and ignore all other topics
* look for your one topic
* eliminate what you can
* QUIT (don't bother solving the rest of the problem)
* check to make sure you didn't eliminate the right answer
* move on.
if you do this, then you'll have 100% focus on one topic, and you'll definitely get better at that topic. yes, it's somewhat annoying that you won't be solving entire problems, but
focus is really the only way to get better at, well, anything.
CR - Earlier, even after going through Powerscore - CR bible I used to jump on the answers choices straight away after reading the Stimulus. Then started building the habit of thinking of the main issue and score improved slightly from 40 % accuracy to 50 %. (Courses followed - OG 10 / 12)
i don't understand what "courses followed -- OG 10/12" means.
maybe it's a language/wording issue. to me, "courses" means "test-prep courses offered by companies like MGMAT" -- so that books are not "courses".
did you actually take a
course associated with the OG? or is this just a way of saying that you went through the book and solved a bunch of problems.
* did you
review the problems?
* if you reviewed them, did you try to find
other ways to solve them, and/or approach them with techniques that you
didn't use when you were solving them the first time around?
... also, it's generally a good idea to read the
question part of the CR problem first, and
then the passage.
i'm not sure whether you are doing this or not, because i don't know whether "the stimulus" means the question part or the passage itself. but, you should read the question first, because then you'll know
how you need to read the passage, and what you have to
focus on.
if you just read the passage first, then your reading will probably be somewhat disjointed/unfocused, because you won't know what you're supposed to
do with the passage yet.
That it what i could not able to figure it out.
sorry, i don't understand this sentence -- a typo, perhaps?
