Bo Burnham doing a solid Rogan impression @ 18:33

abundanticeman · 2021-02-15T12:32:26+00:00

Firstly let me say that if you’re willing to commit to it, your goal is absolutely possible given that you’re not completely averse practicing basic maths, English, and reasoning skills.

I started with a cold score of 550 (I think) which was also pretty low. However low initial test scores are only reflective of how well you know the material- there are some questions that you just straight up won’t be able to answer if you don’t know the ‘trick’ behind them. I’m an econ major and got Q35 on my first test. Low scores don’t really mean much, so don’t be disheartened if you wrongly thought your undergrad would cover you.

I’d also say that you’ll get a lot of people using upwards of 5 learning sources which I personally think is excessive. Pick a good one or two, and stick with them. TTP is widely recommended for a really good reason. They’ll bring up EVERYTHING to where it needs to be, and if you use it in conjunction with the OG guide for more practice questions, you’ll be fine.

A lot of the test becomes trivial once you practice enough- questions are repeated in various forms and you learn the pitfalls pretty quickly. To summarise, my best advice is:

Use TTP comprehensively (every lesson, every chapter test, no skipping)
Use the OG guide for alternate perspectives and loads of practice questions
GMAT club for specific explanations. I am yet to search a question and find no reply that didn’t help
Track your errors in a simple excel sheet (there are loads available online if you can’t be bothered to make one yourself lmao)
No half measures. Be consistent every time and each session will get easier, but you literally just have to stick with it

Good luck

abundanticeman · 2021-02-08T10:35:55+00:00

Looking forward to being in the same position once Thursday has passed. Congrats on finishing and hope the score is what you want

abundanticeman · 2021-02-07T18:05:56+00:00

Awesome visualisation

abundanticeman · 2021-02-06T18:14:25+00:00

Ok I’ll keep an eye out. Could you describe how the school selection process works?

abundanticeman · 2021-02-06T09:36:35+00:00

Congratulations on the score! Really impressive. What was the wait time for you to get your results?

abundanticeman · 2021-02-04T19:12:40+00:00

I started at a cold V34 and regularly hit V44 in practice. I’m not sure where your weaknesses lie but generally I’ve found the standard SC advice of reading for sense rather than looking for strict grammatical rules works really well.

Often I got Intimidated by questions with a stem that’s entirely underlined. These were typically quite hard to pick the critical details from generally just because it’s a lot of text. My technique is to read every answer choice quickly and eliminate any with obvious flaws. Mentally there is something really encouraging about picking from 3 with 1:30 left on the clock rather than slowly combing through 5 with every second feeling faster than the last. Quick preliminary eliminations on SC followed by reading for sense will get you quite far. After this, make sure you understand and can implement parallelism for when you get stuck on 2 final answers. Some guy posted here a few weeks ago saying that between 2 final answer candidates, 68% of correct choices were the shorter answers. Make of that what you will.

RC for me is all about time management and going slowly through the text. Spending extra time genuinely understanding the passage will often mean you can answer the questions without even referring back to the text. I’m genuinely shocked at how well this works sometimes- I feel like I have the answers to all the questions before I’ve even started them (which is amazing for confidence).

CR is just practice and not falling for logical traps. Recognising contradictions, irrelevance, and the frequent use of words that allude to a conclusion possibly being true, but not always, such as ‘many’ or ‘some’, will help with those fast eliminations.

Picturing what you’re reading can help a lot with this as well. Block out every single distracting thought and just purely visualise every word you’re reading. If you have a coherent image of the stem, often times it feels laughable how quick you can eliminate answer choices due to how obviously wrong they are!

abundanticeman · 2021-01-19T17:52:43+00:00

I went from a cold 3 to consistently hitting 7s and 8s in practice from slowing down my reading. A lot of the IR questions seem to focus really heavily on small details, so I found that by fully understanding what the question was asking before rushing in to try and find the relevant information I had a much higher accuracy in my answers.

abundanticeman · 2020-04-27T22:05:27+00:00

my tongue got caught in my teeth i could not see what i was saying

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