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Help needed in IR

by Dean Jones » Sun May 11, 2014 10:53 am
Hello Friends,

With just a week to go for my tests I am struggling to get my IR scores in place. I am scoring 3-4.

I have finished the problems in GMAT OG twice but fail mostly in timing in the tests?

What is a decent score in IR, can you help to push up my IR score in the last few days?

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by [email protected] » Sun May 11, 2014 1:52 pm
Hi Dean Jones,

Relative to the other parts of the GMAT, the IR section is far less important to most Business Schools. Your time might be better spent doing a bit more review/work on the Quant and Verbal sections.

That having been said, the only way to get around your pacing problem is to sacrifice a couple of the IR questions. Since IR prompts don't give partial credit, in a multi-part question, you have to answer all the questions correctly otherwise you get 0 points. You'd be best served by dumping whatever questions you think are too hard (and dump them quickly), so that you can spend your time nailing the other questions.

As a general bit of advice, most IR questions are based primarily on note-taking and pattern-matching. Not taking enough notes is likely causing most of your problems.

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by Dean Jones » Mon May 12, 2014 10:22 am
Is there a penalty in IR like in Quant and Verbal secions, if I am not able to reach the last question?