I understand your frustration.
Use timing benchmarks and "religiously" follow them: For Quant use 8-15-22-29 and Verbal 9-17-25-33. If you fall behind these benchmarks, it will cost you a hefty price at the end of the official test. Tell yourself that as long as you can't stay on those benchmarks, you have room for growth to become more efficient (and likely more accurate) in your problem-solving. Tweaking timing to favor some problems at the expense of others is not going to work out on the GMAT.
I strongly encourage you to adopt this mindset:
- consider the timing milestones as a FIXED structure to follow no matter what!
- consider your ability to perform along those fixed benchmarks as a VARIABLE parameter that you can improve on through better mastery of the content, better processing and organization skills on scratch paper, and increased recognition skills through smart practice of official problems
Keep up and never lose hope!
Nayim
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