How do you guys review questions?

[pathaniaus]

Hey guys,

I have my GMAT day in about 3 weeks. I scored 550 the first time I took it, I really never practiced timing or anything and I guessed pretty much the last 5 to 10 questions in both the quant and verbal sections.

My question is, for CR, RC and SC, you know, after you practice and do your 30-50 questions in each section in a timed environment, how do you review both the right and wrong answers? Is there any strategy that you guys use? Do you just read over the explanations to the answers you got right? What do you do with the questions you get wrong in RC, CR and SC? What are the important things to "take away" from each question you got wrong? In math, for me, its easy, my reaction to questions I get wrong is usually like: "Oh.. i can approach/manipulate/think about it this way". I don't have that kind of reaction with CR and RC, so I don't know if I'm taking anything out of my review or not!

Please let me know.

Thanks

Udai

[ChillingHEAT]

Hi All,

I do have same scenario as of Udai.

Can someone really help us out in really KILLING THIS GMAT.

I am struggling with GMAT for Last 2 years.

Thanks,
ChillingHEAT

[pepe]

Hi Udai,

What has helped me the most is studying in group and sharing the explanations among the members.

As you stated in your post, is much easier to go over the math questions than the verbal ones, and I too at first was a little lazy when it came to review my wrong verbal answers.

However, sharing the explanations of why you choose a particular answer can shed some light on the other members and viceversa.

When studying alone, I also mark the questions I find more difficult or give the harder work. Maybe you've been working in a particular question and you are thinking "I really want to know the answer of this one", but after doing 30-50 questions, at the end you are more interested in ticking your right answers than focussing in that aspect that made you wonder for so long. BTW, check the "GMAT Parctice Grid" that you can download from this site...

I know this is not a magical recipe but I hope it helps you.

[beatthegmat]

Great response, pepe. Here's the link to the GMAT Practice Grid that was mentioned: https://www.beatthegmat.com/gmat-practic ... s-t68.html