Showing posts with label prepare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prepare. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Last block of GMAT RC

My last block of GMAT Reading Comprehension (RC) dropped down again. It scored just a 65% over there. So it opens up a new question here:

What is the best way to take your time and prepare, when you're not about it? It just the wrong mood, the wrong everything, the head is full of shit (pardon for my French) and you can't concentrate. What are the best way to turn yourself into "class-time" when the importance is relatively low, and sometimes, also pretty routine?

Concentration for the exam is rather different than concentration for one typical day from your 3-4 months study plan.

So, I don't have an answer, yet. Do you?

Friday, March 20, 2009

(Re)starting the GMAT preparation

I hope I can finally restart my GMAT preparation after settling up at the new place. I plan to complete at least 50 questions every single day, to be able to get some value from what I'm actually doing and keep preparation time reasonable.

While it doesn't seem hard for the most of math staff, I'm a little bit more concerned about the verbal piece. Anyway, the official GMAT books are about 1,400 questions, so it might take me about a month to get over them. I still have more on the table, but I want to nail them down first.

I tried it today, and completed a little bit more then 50 questions in about 30-40 minutes. Well, that was definitely too fast for the beginner, like me. I made about 20% of errors, mostly because of being pretty careless. Only few of them were really worth looking through the answer and thinking about what did I do wrong.

I already know that my behavior during the real test is really different, but still I want to be able to see the good results on preparation before I'll say I'm ready for the real shot. I should definitely arrange about 2-3 hours every day for keeping things done right.

Hopefully, I can complete the official guides by the end of April. We'll see. ;)