optimum speed is the speed with which you complete 41 questions in 75 mins getting all of the questions correct.

rohittk wrote:optimum speed is the speed with which you complete 41 questions in 75 mins getting all of the questions correct.

Exactly..but getting tat is the wonder!!

i dont have any rule of thumb... i just sorta had a vague notion of how to work on verbal problems:

- reading comp: read the passages thoroughly. don't speed through it in an effort to save time. read through it and understand the point each paragraph is making.

- reading comp questions: less than 1 min per question. if you're taking more than 1 min per question, it means that you're having to go back and re-read everything you already read, and that's going to affect your score.

- critical reasoning: these i tried to do in under 2 mins per problem. however, on the 'harder' ones, i didn't mind taking 3 mins so i could analyze all the answer choices and definitively decide which one was correct - and why the other 4 were incorrect

- sentence correction: these i would originally do really quickly, but towards the end of my study course, i tried to slow down here. i also read the MGMAT SC book and that helped me improve in this section. i think with this section, more so than any other one, it's important to read through all the choices. after you read through all the choices, you can see which ones are definitely out, and work by process of elimination, rather than by choosing the one that sounds right to you. about 2 mins per problem should suffice

now obviously, you cant do 2 mins per every problem as you'll run out of time on the section. but as you go along, you'll have to make a mental note to speed up during easier questions so that you can have 2 mins to spend on the harder CR and SC problems.