To Conquer Timing and Mental Game: Be Brave but NOT Stubborn When first started as a GMAT tutor in New York, I didn’t think as much about the mental game or even timing strategy. Those were things I addressed if someone asked. And generally, I didn’t have a well reasoned approach to these “softer” GMAT […]
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Some Clarity on GMAT Books and Resources You’re probably just starting out with your GMAT prep and, considering that there are a million options in terms of books, courses, GMAT tutors, questions banks, practice tests and so on, it’s understandable that you may be looking for some help sorting through things. Let’s think about resources
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Diagnostic was a 650 but next practice test was a 550. Time to panic? Not yet. There may be a simple reason why your practice test dropped by 100 points relative to your baseline. Here are some questions to ask yourself: Were you more fatigued, stressed, or distracted? The mental game can influence your score.
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Can too much drilling be counterproductive? Yes. What????? Yes, you can “drill” yourself into the ground with practice questions. There are a bunch of thing that can go wrong with just rapid fire blasting through questions. Practicing the wrong strategies If you haven’t learned how to solve questions the “right” way then you may just
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Are there any admissions repercussions from low Integrated Reasoning (IR) or AWA scores? The short answer: not really. IR and, even more-so, AWA don’t matter much in terms of admissions. I had a student score a 1 on IR and still get admitted to a top MBA program. It is very rare that we even
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