bb wrote:
Hi. Sorry for confusing you.
My comment was more about the use of your time before the exam. Everyone has a limited time and especially very limited high-quality time when you learning it’s a my recommendation is to spend most of it learning and refreshing material and using questions only as a way to check how well you’ve learned it. Some people try to learn material by taking questions and that’s a very lengthy process.
My recommendation would be to study during your peak performance times which means not after work and not after a big dinner and not in the bus. Whether you have two weeks or six weeks, I would recommend identifying weaknesses in the easy and medium level questions and the eradicating them completely. Don’t worry about high-end things too much.
I would also be focusing on timing and eliminating careless mistakes. There’s no excuse for making careless mistakes. That should be a punishable offense. 😇
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bb I have a follow up question. Yes, learning by taking questions is not something that I recommend too. So, I go back to basics and check Manhattan strategy guide for the verbal when I feel lost at times. I make mistake mostly due to time constraints and silly mistakes (:/). I am working on the silly mistake part. But what do I do to improve on the timing? What do I do to refresh my concepts? For example, I was doing good 80 - 85% correct on Assumption, Strengthen, and Weaken questions for a while, a month and half before. Since the past 1.5 months, my CR performance has awfully deteriorated - 40-50% correct. I am worried. Same thing happened with my test score - GMAT Official Practice Test end of September - 660,
MGMAT 2 weeks later - 600, 2 more weeks later 530. This is ridiculous. I am on the verge of getting lost now. This is the reason I definitely am going to move out my date. I am targeting around 680 -700 for an evening / weekend MBA. I don't really know why this is happening. I solve the questions well with no time constraint, back to almost 80% accuracy.
Now, for SC, if my performance deteriorates, I go back to my notes and revise and do OK after. But CR used to be my relatively stronger point, and it is blowing me out of the water now. I think
MGMAT strategy guides are perfect and I don't blame them for my recent performance. Practicing more is one thing. How do I improve on the concepts?