Top 5 GMAT Tips
1.Get the best books:-
Many religions have holy books, right? The Official Guides from the GMAC, in their orange, purple and green splendor, are the holy books of the GMAT religion...
Every other book, as good as it may be, is just commentary. Only the Official Guides contain problems retired from the real GMAT. Thus, your efforts must be centered on the Official Guides.
The other “holy” source is GMAT Prep, the free practice-test software.This software has its drawbacks, but it also has two unique benefits: it uses the real GMAT algorithm, and even more importantly, it contains retired GMAT problems, many of which aren’t in the Official Guides. There are two tests offered on this software; you should consider ‘saving’ at least one of them for later in your preparation to use as a measuring stick. The GMAC folks have told us that they plan to release more products soon; these should also become part of your GMAT preparation depot.
2.Build Up,not Build down:-
We see it all the time: whole herds of students go running off to find super-hard problems. “If I can crack these,” the herds think, “I can do any GMAT problem.”Don’t follow the herd.
You should spend more time truly mastering the easier problems. And by “mastering,” I mean ensuring that you can do the problem, not only correctly, but also quickly, easily and confidently under tough exam conditions.
3.Turn enemies into friends:-
Should you play to your strengths or attack your weaknesses?
Ideally, you’ll do both. But if you have to choose, especially early on – pick the weaknesses.
Let’s say you’re a genius on Critical Reasoning, but you’re terrible at Sentence Correction. Which should you work on? The Sentence Correction. Why? Because the test is adaptive. If SC is weighing your performance down, you’ll never get the really hard CR problems. You’ll never get a chance to prove just how brilliant you are with CR.
You know you should do a lot of topic-based work – especially in your weak areas. And you know you’ll have to take practice tests to prepare for the GMAT’s adaptive format, which is both less familiar and more stressful than a paper-based format.
That’s all well and good. But don’t limit yourself to topic-based work and practice tests. Topic-based drills are indispensable, but they give you a crutch – you already know what kind of problem you’re facing. In contrast, the GMAT throws you problems in random order by content area.
5.Know what you know:-
It’s two weeks to the exam. You’ve done a ton of work, and your head is kind of swimming.
Stop making your head swim. Start reviewing and redoing problems.
At this point, it’s much less important to cram new stuff into your brain than it is to organize and strengthen what’s already in there
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