Everything You Need to Know about GMAT Time Management, Part 3
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Everything You Need to Know about GMAT Time Management, Part 2
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Welcome to the second installment of our GMAT time management series! In the first part, we addressed the following:
- Why is time management so important on the GMAT?
- Know (generally) how the scoring works on the GMAT
- When solving problems, follow two principles: first Exam Mode, then Study Mode
Today’s installment is all about per-problem timing.
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Everything You Need to Know about GMAT Time Management, Part 1
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You have a lot to learn in this series! And it won’t happen overnight; you’ll need to build these skills over time. Bookmark this article and return to it frequently throughout your studies. At the least, revisit these articles before and after every practice test you take.
One more note: We’ll address per-question and per-section time management. We’ll also address how you keep track of your time for the test-center based GMAT. For the GMAT Online, the test sections themselves are the same, but the scratch paper situation is different, and that affects how you’ll keep track of your time during the exam. Read this series first; at the end, we’ll link to another post that addresses how to use your whiteboard to keep track of your time on the GMAT Online, specifically.
Today, we’re going to discuss the overarching principles for managing your time on the GMAT. Ready? Let’s dive in!
How to Study for the GMAT
The GMAT isn’t a college exam! Instead of ramping up the difficulty by testing harder material, the GMAT gets harder by making tougher demands on your executive reasoning skills. The way you study for the GMAT can’t just be based on learning math and grammar. It also has to improve your executive reasoning skills and prepare you to take the test effectively. Read more
4 Steps to Analyze Your GMAT Practice Tests (Part 2)
Welcome back! If you haven’t already, start with Part 1 of this series, where we performed a global executive reasoning and timing review for your GMAT practice tests. Let’s continue with a deeper dive of the per-question timing data from your problem list. (And grab pen and paper to take note—this is going to be…geeky.) Read more
4 Steps to Analyze Your GMAT Practice Tests (Part 1)
How many GMAT practice tests have you taken so far? Are you satisfied—or frustrated—with your progress? Read more
A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team
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Did you watch any of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang? If not, you missed out not only on some curling action that brought the house down*, but also on the most spectacular hockey shootout goal I’ve ever seen. If you saw it, you know the one I’m talking about! But there’s one other important thing you may have missed: an important lesson about GMAT timing. Read more
The Real GMAT Timing Danger
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So you’ve been studying for the GMAT for a couple months now and feel like you’re learning a ton and getting a lot better, but your score just won’t budge. Sound familiar? Or maybe your score is moving, but not getting where you want it to be. When you look at individual questions, they all more or less make sense, but when you try to put it all together on a practice test, the score still comes out the same as it always is. What gives? Read more
You’ve Just Taken Your First Practice GMAT. Now What?
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So, you’ve just finished your first practice GMAT, and you’ve reviewed your assessment report. (If you haven’t generated an assessment report yet, do it now, before you keep reading!) If you’re like many of my students, you may have more questions now than you did beforehand. In this article, I’ll share some of the most common questions raised by the first practice GMAT, and how to answer them. Read more
Two More Official Practice GMAT Exams Released!
GMAC® has released two new official practice CATs for your studying pleasure. In addition to the 2 free tests and the 2 previously-released paid tests, this brings to 6 the total number of official practice GMATs you can take as you get ready for the real test.
The GMATPrep® Exam Pack 2 contains 2 full-length practice tests for $49.99 and, as with the Exam Pack 1 product, you’ll receive an enhanced score report providing you with your overall scores and some detailed performance data by question-type.
GMATPrep Exam Tips
We do recommend that you time yourself per question while taking the GMATPrep® exams. Almost everyone has at least minor timing issues in at least one of the sections, so this is useful data to gather. Grab your smartphone and disable the screen saver (or make it so long that it won’t go dark on you between questions).
Pull up a timer or stopwatch app and play with it until you figure out how the lap timing function works. The lap timer allows you run a timer continuously as you hit the lap button periodically. Every time you hit the lap button, the timer will record how long it has been since you last hit the lap button, but the timer won’t stop. It’ll continue running.
Every time you finish a problem and click Next and Confirm, train yourself to hit a third button: Lap. Your sequence is always Next-Confirm-Lap and on to the new problem. When you’re done, you’ll have your per-question timing data.