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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ve made it to part 3 of our Time Management series!</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gmat-time-management-part-1-of-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In the first part of this series</a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">we discussed the following: </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">1. Why is time management so important on the GMAT?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">2. Know (generally) how the scoring works.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">3. When solving problems, follow two principles<span style="font-weight: 400;">: first Exam Mode, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">then</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Study Mode</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-time-management-part-2-of-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In the second part</a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">we discussed our first major time management strategy:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">4. First, train per problem: Develop your “1-minute time sense”</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s post, we’re moving up to our second strategy: how to manage your time across the entire section. We’re going to use the testing-center experience as the baseline in this post, but at the end of this post, you’ll find a link to another article about how to keep track of your time for the GMAT Online. (But do read this post first—the overall strategy is the same for both forms of the exam; the difference is really just in how you use your scratch pad / whiteboard to keep track of the time.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One more public service announcement before we dive in: If you’re reading this and have not yet taken a practice test, go do that before you keep reading. Yes, I actually want you to take a test </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">before</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you learn how to manage your time per section. Get a sense of your strengths and weaknesses on just the pure content without having half of your brain distracted because it’s trying to remember all the time management stuff I’m about to teach you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Aside: Our free </span><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/resources/?utm_source=poetsandquants&#038;utm_medium=partner&#038;utm_campaign=manhattanprep_gmat&#038;utm_content=gmat_free_resources"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Starter Kit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> study syllabus comes with one free practice CAT.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you’re ready for your </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">second</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> practice test, that’s when you’ll try the below for the first time. (Taking a course with us? Just follow your syllabus; this is all built-in for you already.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ready? Let’s go!</span></p>
<h3><b>5) Second, Manage an Entire Section Using Benchmarks</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GMAT gives you a block of time for an entire section. In the Quant section, you’ll have 62 minutes to spend on 31 problems; in the Verbal section, you’ll have 65 minutes for 36 problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On average, you’ll have about 2 minutes per problem for quant and a little less than 2 minutes per problem for verbal. Those are just averages though; in practice, you’re going to spend somewhere between 1 minute and 3 minutes on most problems. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—but not all. Sometimes, you’ll spend even less time. For example, when you see a problem that’s a significant weakness of yours or just looks awful, you’re going to guess almost immediately—basically, as soon as you recognize that this problem is not a good one for you. And you’re actually going to bail (guess almost immediately) on about 2 to 4 problems in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">each</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> section (Quant, Verbal, and IR). One of the things you’re going to prepare ahead of time is a list of what you hate and tend to answer incorrectly or take too much time to do, so that you can make a quick executive-reasoning call to bail early and move on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the other side of the timescale, you’re also looking to avoid spending more than about 3 minutes on any one Quant or Verbal problem, since your odds of getting it right have gone way down. (It’s pure logic: There is a faster solution, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">but you don’t know what it is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> since you’re spending 3+ minutes. Pick an answer and don’t look back.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So how do you balance all of that to come out to 2 minutes </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">on</span></i> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">average</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the time you’re done with the section? You’re going to use your scratch paper to help you keep track.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the testing center, you’re going to get a bound booklet of 5 sheets of yellow, laminated, legal-sized paper (that extra long paper typically used for legal documents). You’ll also get a special pen to write on it. (If you’re in one of our classes, then you received your very own scratch paper booklet and pen in your package of materials. If you aren’t in one of our classes, we also sell the </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-GMAT-Simulation-Booklet-Marker/dp/0979017580/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=yellow+pad+gmat&#038;qid=1611632762&#038;sr=8-1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">scratch paper booklet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Amazon. Alternatively, staple together 5 sheets of paper to create a facsimile.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The front face of the booklet has a bunch of writing and instructions on it, so you’ll have 9 faces (front and back of 5 pages, minus the 1 face with writing) on which to write. You can have only one booklet at a time at your desk, but you can swap out for a new one at any time. Ask for a new booklet during each break so that you don’t have to worry about doing so during the test itself.</span></p>
<h3><b>Quant Section Timing</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll have a 30-second introduction screen (also known as a “breather” screen) right before each section starts. But you’ll already know the information given on the screen, so use that time instead to take a deep breath and set up your scratch paper.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note: You cannot set up your scratch paper during the break; you are not allowed to write anything or even to sit in the testing room during your break.</span></p>
<p><strong>Here’s what to do:</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15585" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/quant-yellow-pad-apr2018.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Everything You Need to Know about GMAT Time Management (Part 3) by Stacey Koprince" width="1488" height="1116" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/quant-yellow-pad-apr2018.png 1488w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/quant-yellow-pad-apr2018-300x225.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/quant-yellow-pad-apr2018-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/quant-yellow-pad-apr2018-1024x768.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1488px) 100vw, 1488px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flip the booklet over so that you’re on the back face of the very last sheet. Draw a big X at the top (for “Extra”). If you need more room, you’ve got it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next, flip over to the front face of that last page and write 0 or draw a smiley face in the lower-right corner, as shown in the diagram. When you get to this point, you’re done with the Quant section! Draw two lines, as shown, to split the page into four sections.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then move to the back face of the second-to-last page and write 8 this time. Again, split the page into four sections.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the front face of that page, write 16. Keep going by multiples of 8 and working your way from the end of the booklet to the front. When you get to the 56 page, you’re going to make just 3 problem sections, not 4.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This will take a little time. With practice, you can learn to do this in 30 seconds. (Even if it takes you a full minute, that’s only 30 seconds out of your 62 minutes for this section. That’s not going to make or break your score.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Starting from the front of the booklet, use the little segments on each page to do each problem. When you finish a page, the number in the corner tells you </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">approximately</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the time left that you want to see on the countdown timer (in the upper right corner of the screen). You don’t have to be exactly on time; as long as you’re within roughly 3 minutes in either direction, all is good.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are two “take action!” scenarios: </span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You find yourself more than about 3 minutes behind on time</span></li>
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a. For example, your page says 40 but the timer says 36 minutes left</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You find yourself more than about 3 minutes ahead on time</span></li>
</ol>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a. For example, your page says 40 but the timer says 45 minutes left</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re more than 3 minutes behind, here’s your action: During the next set of 4, as soon as you see a problem that makes you think “Ugh,” bail immediately (within 30 seconds). The problem could be testing something you don’t like, or the first sentence is really hard to follow, or it has an ugly equation, or whatever—just choose your favorite letter and move on. And that’s it! As long as you take action when needed all the way through the section, bailing like this on one problem (or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">maybe</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> two) will be sufficient to put you back on track.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Aside: What’s your favorite letter, A, B, C, D, or E? Congratulations! You now know what you’re going to pick </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">every single time</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you decide that you want to random-bail. Don’t give this decision any more brainpower than necessary during the exam. Pick your favorite letter and move on.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re more than 3 minutes ahead, here’s your action: First, take a deep breath. Next, figure out what you need to do to work more methodically. Write all of your work down (especially if it’s math). Make yourself check for the proof in the RC passage—don’t just rely on memory. Slow down the rush. Rushing just causes careless mistakes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re going to practice this for the first time on your </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">second</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> practice test. You’re probably going to screw it up at least a little. You might screw it up a  lot. That’s what practice is for! By the time you get to the real thing, you’ll be able to set up your grids in 30 seconds (it’s not easy!) and you’ll know how to react appropriately (and immediately!) when you realize that you’re too far behind or ahead.</span></p>
<h3><b>Verbal Section Timing</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are three verbal problem types—all, annoyingly, with different average time expectations. Verbal time management is messier than quant time management.</span></p>
<p><strong>Here’s how to set up the scratch paper for Verbal:</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15586" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-1-apr2018.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Everything You Need to Know about GMAT Time Management (Part 3) by Stacey Koprince" width="1488" height="1116" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-1-apr2018.png 1488w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-1-apr2018-300x225.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-1-apr2018-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-1-apr2018-1024x768.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1488px) 100vw, 1488px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Note: The visual shows the paper in classic portrait layout. For verbal, I personally turn the booklet horizontally—landscape layout. I’m writing more notes in this section, especially for RC and it makes me feel like I have more space&#8230;even though, yes, I know it’s actually the same size.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Verbal, why are we doing 9 problems per face across only 4 faces?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Verbal has another complication: Reading Comprehension (RC). First, you need time to read the passage before you can begin to answer the problems. So we have to account for that time somehow. Second, you usually get 4 RC passages on the GMAT. Odds are good that you will start one new passage in each “quarter” of the exam. In other words, you will most likely start your first RC passage somewhere during the first 9 problems. You’ll probably start your second RC passage somewhere in the next block of 9. And so on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So that’s why Verbal is organized in 4 blocks of 9 problems each—to match up with the expectation that we’ll probably get one RC passage per block.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The twist: It’s also possible that the passages could be more clumped. (Could this test </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">be</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> any more annoying?!? #ChandlerBing) Don’t worry; the time management plan accounts for that possibility. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s how to track RC. First, see the little R after each of your time-markers (0R, 16R, 32R, and 48R)? The R stands for RC.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every time a new RC passage pops up on the screen, go cross off that R in the corner of the page. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “expected” scenario is shown in the top right example of this visual: You were expecting to be given one RC passage in this first block of problems and now you’ve gotten it.</span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15587" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-2-apr2018.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Everything You Need to Know about GMAT Time Management (Part 3) by Stacey Koprince" width="1490" height="1114" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-2-apr2018.png 1490w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-2-apr2018-300x224.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-2-apr2018-768x574.png 768w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/10/verbal-yellow-pad-2-apr2018-1024x766.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1490px) 100vw, 1490px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you get to the end of that 9-problem block having seen only one RC passage, you’re going to stick with the expected time of 48 minutes left. If you’re within 3m of that time, keep going; if you’re not, take action. As on the quant, if you’re behind on time, bail immediately on the next “Ugh” problem you see. If you’re too far ahead, slow down a little and figure out how to work more systematically to minimize careless mistakes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But! What if you’re in your first block of 9 and you’ve already crossed off your R&#8230;and they give you a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">second</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> RC passage in that block? You’ve already crossed off the R! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The second box on the right side of the visual shows what to do: Jot down another R and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">don’t</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cross it off. That’s your signal that you got an extra RC passage in this block, so you’re going to be a bit short on time compared to that 48 minutes written on the page. In fact, expect to be about 2 minutes slow—so if, for example, the time marker says 48, subtract 2. You should really have around 48 – 2 = 46 minutes left. As always, check the clock and, if you find yourself more than a few minutes ahead or behind, take action.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alternatively, what if you get to the end of that block but </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">haven’t</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> crossed off the first R? That’s what the third box on the right side of our visual shows. When this happens, they didn’t give you any new RC passage in that block—so expect to be a couple of minutes </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ahead</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of your expected time at the end of that block. In the example above, you’d expect to be at about 48 + 2 = 50 minutes; if you’re more than a few minutes ahead or behind that time, take action.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One last note: In the graphic, we’ve written out ABCDE for each problem. But that’s a lot of work to do for the entire test. Ideally, practice writing out the letters just once for each block, then track your work for each problem in the blank space to the right of the ABCDE. Use your usual symbols to eliminate letters or circle the one you want to choose—you’ll just be doing this in blank space rather than directly over the letters ABCDE. (Once I know what I want to pick, I also jot down that specific letter—just to reinforce what I’m about to pick on screen.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will absolutely need to practice this process many times to get good at it. You can also practice this when doing problem sets. Do all your quant problem sets in multiples of 4 from now on (4, 8, 12, or 16) and make your verbal problem sets in batches of 9 or 18.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you’re done with an exam or a problem set, analyze your timing on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">both</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a global and a per-problem basis. Where are you happy with your decisions? Where do you wish you’d made different decisions? What is that different decision and what clues would you have needed to spot to know to make that different decision? This level of analysis will retrain your brain for next time so that you can make your executive reasoning skills really work for you on this exam.</span></p>
<h3>Integrated Reasoning Timing</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Integrated Reasoning section is much more straightforward than the Quant and Verbal sections—as far as time management is concerned, anyway. You’ll have 30 minutes to solve 12 problems, but you’ll be looking to bail (guess immediately) on about 3 of those problems, so you actually have 30 minutes to do 9 problems, or a bit over 3 minutes per problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re going to set up your yellow pad in the same way you did for quant, in groups of 4, but you’ll only need 3 pages, since there are only 12 problems. In the bottom right corner of the 3 pages, write 20, 10, and 0 counting down. On each page, draw two lines to split the page into four sections.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now let’s use a little of the RC tracking strategy. You’re going to bail on 3 problems and there are 3 groups of 4 problems each, so assume that you’re probably going to bail on one problem in each block. You’ll have 10 minutes to spread across the remaining 3 problems in that block. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you decide to bail fast on a problem, draw a big X at the top of that problem’s quadrant—but don’t cross off the whole quadrant. If you need more room for one of the other problems, use the remaining space in that bail problem’s quadrant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But what if you actually do all 4 in a block (ie, you don’t bail on any)? Then your time should be a little lower than what you’ve written in the corner of that page. For example, if the page says 20 but you did all 4, your time should be more like 17 or 18. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note: In this case, you’ll need to bail on an extra problem in one of the other blocks—that is you’ll bail on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">two</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> problems in another block—in order to catch back up. When you flip to the next page, jot a note at the top, something like “NEED EXTRA BAIL.”</span></p>
<h3>The GMAT Online Timing</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Quant, Verbal, and IR sections are identical for the GMAT Online—same number of problems, same time limit per section. The only difference has to do with how you’re going to use your scratch paper to manage your time. For the GMAT Online, you don’t get the multi-page booklet. Instead, you’ll have a physical whiteboard that doesn’t have as much real estate and you’ll also have access to an online whiteboard that has endless capacity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll want to use the physical whiteboard for certain things and the online whiteboard for other things—and this </span><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/online-whiteboard/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">article about the GMAT Online</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will tell and show you how. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good luck, merry time management, and happy studying!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to the second installment of our GMAT time management series!</span> <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-time-management-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In the first part</a>, we <span style="font-weight: 400;">addressed the following: </span></p>
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<li>Why is time management so important on the GMAT?</li>
<li>Know (generally) how the scoring works on the GMAT</li>
<li>When solving problems, follow two principles: first Exam Mode, <em>then</em> Study Mode</li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s installment is all about per-problem timing.</span><br />
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<h3><strong>4) First, Train Per Problem: Develop Your “1-Minute Time Sense”</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to manage your time well in an entire section (which we’ll talk about next time), you have to make good decisions about what to do on individual problems. Specifically, you have to know how to decide when to keep solving versus when to move on—and that requires having an </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">approximate</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> idea of how long you’re spending on those individual problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On most GMAT problems, you’re going to make your first big decision just 1 minute into the problem. That’s enough time for you to know whether you understand what the problem is talking about </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> whether you’ve got a good enough plan to warrant continuing on with the problem. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you don’t know what the problem is telling you or you don’t understand what the problem is asking you to do, that’s a good clue to guess and move on. Alternatively, you might fully understand what the problem is saying but just not have a great idea of what to do in order to solve—and that’s another good clue to guess and move on. Remember: You only need to get about 50% to 70% of the problems right. You can afford to let the annoying ones go.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ok, so 1 minute is the first big decision&#8230;but it would be </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">really</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> annoying to check the clock every minute during the test. How can you know that it’s been approximately a minute since you started working on this problem, without actually checking the clock all the time? You’re going to develop your 1-minute time sense.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before we dive in, just a note: I explicitly do </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> want you to time yourself when you’re doing non-GMAT-format practice, such as skill drill sets. When you’re doing that kind of work, learn at a pace that works for you. You’re only going to time yourself when you’re working in Exam Mode on Official Guide or other official-GMAT-format problems.</span></p>
<h4><strong>Why 1 minute?</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has to do with the average time available to spend on each problem. The 1-minute mark is the half-way point for Quant and Critical Reasoning (CR) problems, as well as for some Reading Comprehension (RC) problems. If you’re actually going to finish this problem around the 2 minute average, then by the half-way point, you’ve got to understand both what they’re telling you and what they’re asking you </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you have to have a good idea of how to solve. If that’s the case, great! Keep going (for another minute or so) on this problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, if you don’t understand what’s going on or don&#8217;t have a good idea of how to solve, then don’t keep going down the “I’m trying to solve this” path. One possible alternative is to make an educated guess: You see a legitimate way to eliminate wrong answers and you do that before you guess from among the remaining answers. If you don’t see a path for that either, though, then just guess randomly and move to the next problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Sentence Correction (SC) and main-idea RC questions, on average, you’re supposed to be further along by the 1-minute mark—something like three-quarters of the way through the problem. Since these are both Verbal problem types, let’s say that your 1-minute goal is to have eliminated 1 or 2 answers. If so, things are working—keep going. But if you’re still stuck trying to understand the sentence or the passage / problem, guess and move on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In any of these scenarios, you’re employing your executive reasoning skills: You’re making the best possible decision to maximize your ROI (return on investment). When it’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">objectively</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> worth it to invest more time, go for it. But when it’s not, you are able to make the executive call to let that opportunity go and look to invest elsewhere.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is really what the GMAT is testing, at heart.</span></p>
<h4><strong>How do I develop my 1-minute time sense?</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You need the stopwatch / timer function on the device of your choice. First, see what features it has. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look for an app that has a “lap” button. (On some apps, the start button turns into a lap button after you press Start.) When you tap the lap button, the timer will mark the time at which you tapped Lap—but the timer doesn’t stop. It keeps running. Tap the Lap button repeatedly and you’ll get a list of time intervals, each measuring from the last time you tapped the button.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find a non-GMAT-related task that takes concentration: Write an email for work, research a product you’re thinking about buying, read something in The Economist. On your stopwatch, cover up the timer display so that you can’t see what it says but leave all of the other buttons visible. Start working. Every time you think about 1 minute has passed, tap the Lap button. Ignore the list of data that starts popping up; keep working. A little while later, pause and look at the list of numbers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If most of your lap times are within 20 seconds of 1 minute (that is, between 40 seconds and 1 minute 20 seconds), great! Try this a few more times over the next few days; if your results continue to be consistent, you’re good to go.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re like most people, though, you don’t already have an internal clock in your brain, so you’ll need to train. Do this exercise a few times a day for 5 to 10 minutes at a time, and after a week or two, you’ll get yourself pretty consistently into a “close enough” time range (00:40 to 01:20).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One note: You may find that you have a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">consistent</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> sense of how long you think one minute is, but that sense is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">inaccurate</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—it’s either too fast or too slow. Let’s say that your times are all around 30 to 50 seconds—you’re consistent, but that’s too fast. Try tapping the button when your brain thinks it’s been 1 minute 15 seconds. If, on the other hand, you find that your timing is consistently too slow, tap the button when you feel like it’s been only 45 seconds. You’re retraining your brain to get used to how long 1 minute actually is, not what your brain currently thinks it is.</span></p>
<h4><strong>How do I practice this on GMAT questions?</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Glad you asked. I’d train first with 2-minute-average problems: Try a set of 4 quant or CR problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get your problem set organized, cover up the time on your timer, and go! When you think it’s been roughly a minute since you began the first problem, tap the lap button. When you’ve finished the problem, tap the lap button again. (When you’ve finished a problem on the real test, you have to click Next and Confirm to advance to the next problem. Pretend that’s what’s happening now: You have to push the button when you’re done in order to go to the next problem.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Repeat until you’ve finished all four problems, then analyze your data. You’ll—hopefully—have 8 lap times. (At first, you might forget to tap Lap every time; you’ll get better with practice.) The odd-numbered data points (1, 3, 5, and 7) represent your first minute(ish) for each problem. You’re looking for these times to be roughly within that 00:40 to 01:20 timeframe. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The even-numbered data points (2, 4, 6, and 8) represent the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">remaining</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> time you spent on the second half of each problem. These data points </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">do not</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have to fit into the 1-minute timeframe. If you found the problem easy or decided to guess, you might have only 15 or 30 seconds for the remaining time. Or, on a harder one, you might have decided to invest an extra 30 seconds, so this data point might be more like 1:30. These even-numbered data points should only raise an alarm if you spent way too much time—2, 3, 4 minutes on the second “half” of the problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your collective time on the entire set does have to fit the time limit for this block of questions—in this case, 8 minutes for 4 problems. So I also recommend setting a second timer that’s counting down from 8 minutes. (This is also the beginning of learning how to manage your time over an entire section; as I mentioned, we’ll talk about that next time.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reflect on the entire problem set. In hindsight, what were your good decisions about when to keep going and when to let go? (Don’t skip this step! Reinforce what went well so that you’re building the habit do the same thing again next time.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And what decisions might you want to make differently next time? With the benefit of hindsight, figure out what those different decisions would be and what specific clues will prompt you to know to make that specific decision next time. We call this maximizing your ROI on the test; </span><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2016/05/26/develop-a-business-mindset-to-maximize-your-roi-on-the-gmat/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">read more about how to do this here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to emphasize one very important aspect of the above: Making a “different decision next time” does not necessarily mean “How do I get this </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">right</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> next time?” Sometimes, a problem is just too hard or otherwise annoying and your decision is “How will I recognize faster next time that this kind of problem is terrible and my best strategy is to guess fast and move on?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And occasionally, you’ll realize (after the fact) that there was a valid way to narrow down the answer choices—that is, to cross off wrong answers even though you didn’t know how to get to the correct answer. Take some time to explore what that valid thought process is and figure out how you’ll recognize when you can use that same analysis on future problems. You do have to guess a lot on this test; educated guessing is a fantastic way to improve your odds (as always, as long as you can do so within the established timeframe).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take about 2 to 4 weeks to practice your 1-minute time sense and how to make good decisions on a per-problem basis. Move to the third and final part of this series sometime in the week before you take your next practice CAT. (If you’re taking one of our classes, we’ve already assigned the next installment in your syllabus—you don’t have to remember.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/everything-know-gmat-time-management-part-3/">In part 3</a>, we’ll discuss how to manage your time across an entire section of the GMAT—including when to bail entirely (that is, guess almost immediately on a problem).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">keep track</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we’re going to discuss the overarching principles for managing your time on the GMAT. Ready? Let’s dive in!</span></p>
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<h3><strong>1) Why is Time Management So Important on the GMAT?</strong></h3>
<p>The GMAT is really a test of your <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2013/06/03/what-the-gmat-really-tests/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=GMAT%20Blog&#038;utm_campaign=SK%20373%20-%20Everything%20About%20Time%20Management%20-%20Part%201%20Link%20to%20What%20the%20GMAT%20Really%20Tests" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">executive reasoning skills</a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(a fancy way of saying “how you make decisions”). When you were really prepared for a school test, that test literally felt easier and you could solve problems faster. On the GMAT, by contrast, the Quant and Verbal sections actually adapt to your level. The weird result: It doesn’t matter how good you get; the test still feels hard and you don’t have enough time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can think of the GMAT as a “where you end is what you get” test. If you run out of time with a lot of questions still unanswered, then your performance will drop precipitously towards the end of the section. And since where you end is what you get, a performance drop at the end of the section is really going to hurt your score.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That puts pressure on you to work really fast—but speed usually results in an increase in careless mistakes. You can make a small number of careless mistakes without killing your score, but if you start missing a bunch of questions that you actually knew how to do, you’re going to end up with a lower score than you could have gotten.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So you want to keep yourself </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">roughly</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on time throughout each section. You will go faster on some questions and slower on others, but overall, you want to be careful not to get </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">too</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> far ahead or behind the average time you need to maintain across the entire section.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s your mantra for the Quant and Verbal sections: Try to stay within approximately 3 minutes of the expected overall average time. But if you edge into way-too-slow territory (more than 3 minutes behind) or way-too-fast (more than 3 minutes ahead), you’re going to take action.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Right now, I can hear you thinking:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How will I know what the expected time is at any point?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">What actions should I take if I’m too far behind? Too far ahead?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do I keep myself mostly on time across the whole section?</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the time you’re done with this series, you’ll know how to handle all of this.</span></p>
<h3><strong>2) Know (Generally) how the Scoring Works on the GMAT</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Verbal and Quant sections are&#8230;odd. The scoring is completely different than what we all think of as normal—it’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> based on the number of problems you got right. If you approach the GMAT in the way you approached school tests (i.e., try to get everything right), you’re almost certainly going to end up too far behind on time. And if you run out of time&#8230;well, where you end is what you get.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You don’t have to learn exactly how GMAT scoring works, but you need to know enough to know how to maximize your score.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">(A) <span style="font-weight: 400;">We all miss a ton of problems, no matter the scoring level. If you were playing tennis or basketball, you wouldn’t win every single point, right? That would be&#8230;weird, like you’re playing with people who’ve never played before. To win the game, you just need to win more points than the other player. The same is true for the GMAT. Regardless of scoring level, most people get approximately 50-70% of the problems right in the Quant and Verbal sections.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">(B) <span style="font-weight: 400;">If you miss an easier problem, that will hurt your score more than when you miss a harder one. It&#8217;s crucial to avoid putting yourself in the position of having to rush, because then you’ll start missing problems that you did actually know how to do. (Note: You can still hit your target score even if you miss a small number of easier ones. You just can’t have too many.) </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">(C) <span style="font-weight: 400;">If you miss 4 (or more) in a row, your score will drop </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">more</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> than if you miss 4 but there are one or two correct answers breaking up the run. (For example, if you miss #6 through #9 straight, your score will drop more than if you miss #6, #7, #9, and #11.) And if you get so far behind that you run out of time at the end of the section, that’s exactly what happens: You miss a bunch in a row.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">(D) <span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s the last weird thing: If you run out of time and don’t submit an answer at all for the last 4+ problems, your score will drop </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">more</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> than if you put in a guess for every problem—and guess incorrectly every time. (One or two blank problems at the end </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">might</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> drop you a little but won’t tank your score.) In other words, don’t leave anything blank. Even if you have to guess randomly, answer every single problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time management mastery is crucial to your GMAT performance. This really is a test of your executive reasoning skills.</span></p>
<h3><strong>3) When Solving GMAT Problems, Follow Two Principles</strong></h3>
<p>These two principles apply when you are solving Official Guide or other GMAT-format problems.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>Principle #1: The first time, work in Exam Mode. Practice the behavior you want to exhibit on the GMAT.</i></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pretend you’re taking the test when you first do an official-format problem. Do </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> take 6 minutes because “I want to see whether I can figure it out and it’s only practice anyway.” Whatever habits you build during practice, you’re going to do the same thing on the real test—and you definitely don’t want to do this on the real test. Instead, make the call you’d want to make on the real thing: “I’d choose answer (B) and move on.” Do it: Choose answer (B). </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, advance to principle #2.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Principle #2: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">After</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you’ve made your Exam Mode decision, switch to Study Mode. Spend as much time as you like trying to figure it out.</span></i></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Okay, so you’ve picked (B) and mentally moved on. Now, switch to “Can I figure it out?” mode. Don’t look at the answer (yet). Feel free to spend 15 minutes trying two other approaches and looking stuff up in your books. That’s a great idea, in fact; if you really can figure it out yourself, you’ll be much more likely to remember that approach next time you see a similar problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Study Mode is always open-book mode. You can review anything you want—with the exception of the explanation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, okay, you’re allowed to review the explanation, but sparingly. Use it as a series of hints: Read just far enough until you get an idea. Push that idea as far as you can (still open book). Go back to the explanation when you get stuck again and need another hint.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(1) Exam Mode. (2) Study Mode. Always in that order. Follow these two principles to maximize your learning. Train yourself to make the same decisions you want to make on test-day. And then figure out as much as you can yourself—you’ll remember that learning much better than what you learn from just passively reading someone else’s explanation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Practice the above for a week or so before going to the second installment, in which we’ll discuss how to manage your time problem by problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One last thing: We have </span><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/resources/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">free stuff</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! The free GMAT Starter Kit study syllabus includes a full-length practice test, among other study resources, and we regularly hold free events, including GMAT Prep Hour and joint admissions events with admissions consulting firm MBA Mission. You can also sit in on the first session of any of our GMAT Complete Courses for free.</span></p>
<p>In <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2016/09/19/everything-you-need-to-know-about-time-management-part-2-of-3/#utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=SK%20373%20-%20Everything%20About%20Time%20Management%20-%20Part%201%20Link%20to%20Part%202" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">part 2</a>, we’ll dive deep into the details about how to train yourself to manage time on a per-question basis.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/stacey-koprince/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=KoprinceBioLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-9719 size-thumbnail" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/06/stacey-koprince-150x150.png" alt="stacey-koprince" width="150" height="150" /></a><em><strong><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/stacey-koprince/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=KoprinceBioLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stacey Koprince</a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Montreal, Canada and Los Angeles, California.</strong> Stacey has been teaching the GMAT, GRE, and LSAT  for more than 15 years and is one of the most well-known instructors in the industry. Stacey loves to teach and is absolutely fascinated by standardized tests. <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=KoprinceCoursesLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog#instructor/86">Check out Stacey’s upcoming GMAT courses here</a>.</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/what-the-gmat-really-tests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>executive reasoning skills</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The way you study for the GMAT can’t </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">just</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> be based on learning math and grammar. It also has to improve your executive reasoning skills and prepare you to take the test effectively.</span><span id="more-16855"></span></p>
<h4><b>Start to Study for the GMAT: A Checklist</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">1. Decide <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/when-take-the-gmat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">when to take the GMAT</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. Pick a <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/good-gmat-score/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GMAT goal score</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Learn how the GMAT looks and feels by reading the following links:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><a href="https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat/about-the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-structure" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How is the GMAT organized?</span></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><a href="https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat/about-the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-structure/quantitative" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What types of questions are on GMAT Quant?</span></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><a href="https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat/about-the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-structure/verbal" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What types of questions are on GMAT Verbal?</span></a></p>
<p>4. <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/free-gmat-practice-test/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take your first practice test</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (for free!).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s not a mistake: it’s fine to take your first practice test </span><b>before you start studying for the GMAT. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The point isn’t to see your score! It’s to help you understand what and how to study for the GMAT. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your first practice test will take about 2.5 hours, if you skip the Analytical Writing and Integrated Reasoning sections. </span></p>
<p>5. <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/error-log-the-1-way-to-raise-your-gmat-score/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create a GMAT error log.</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you really want to know how to study for the GMAT effectively, this is it! Keeping an error log is the single best move you can make, and the earlier you start, the better.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">6. Learn the math and grammar basics.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GMAT isn’t a math test, and it isn’t an English test. It only tests basic content in both of those areas. But part of studying for the GMAT is knowing that basic content inside and out. If you’re rusty on math or grammar, start studying for the GMAT by working through these two books:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/foundations-of-gmat-math/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundations of GMAT Math</span></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/foundations-of-verbal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundations of GMAT Verbal</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not sure whether you need a GMAT math refresher? Take the 40-minute Basic Math Diagnostic in our Student Center. By the way, we offer </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/foundations-of-gmat-math/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a course on the GMAT math fundamentals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, if you learn better in the classroom. Check it out! </span></p>
<h4><b>How to Choose a GMAT Study Strategy</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should you study for the GMAT by taking a course, or should you go it alone? What are the options, and which one is right for you?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For most of us, the </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/complete-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Complete Course</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the right choice. The course structures your studies, keeps you accountable, and makes sure you don’t miss anything that could show up on the GMAT. You’ll also learn how to study for the GMAT on your own after the course ends. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This takes the stress out of studying for the GMAT—you’ll never have to wonder whether you’re covering everything or whether you’re studying correctly. When you sign up for the course, you also get all of the books you’ll need to study for the GMAT, plus access to a ton of online GMAT study resources.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you decide to do GMAT self-study instead, your options are to do a guided self-study program or to study entirely on your own. Our self-study program is called </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/on-demand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Interact</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. When you sign up for Interact, you’ll get all of the books you need for self-study and a set of game-changing interactive lessons that cover the same material as the course. You’ll also have a syllabus to follow, although you’ll need to hold yourself accountable for sticking to it!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do GMAT self-study without Interact, you should purchase the following books. </span></p>
<ul>
<li><b><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/official-guides-for-gmat/official-guide-for-gmat-review-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GMAT Official Guide</a></b></li>
<li><strong><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manhattan Prep 6th Edition Strategy Guides</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/foundations-of-gmat-math/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foundations of GMAT Math</a></strong></li>
<li>Optional: <a href="https://www.mba.com/exam-prep/gmat-official-guide-quantitative-review-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Official Guide to GMAT Quantitative Review</a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Optional: </span><a href="https://www.mba.com/exam-prep/gmat-official-guide-verbal-review-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Official Guide to GMAT Verbal Review</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Optional: </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/advanced-gmat-quant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advanced GMAT Quant</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Optional: </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/foundations-of-verbal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundations of GMAT Verbal</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You should also sign up for an account at </span><a href="https://www.mba.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mba.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and get familiar with the free practice problems and the two free practice GMATs available there. Finally, </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/online-resources/gmat-online-practice-tests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">purchase access to the full set of computer-adaptive GMAT practice tests here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Start your self-study by going through the checklist at the start of this article, then creating a GMAT study calendar!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another alternative is </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/tutoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>GMAT tutoring</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You can also use tutoring alongside self-study, while taking a course, or after your course is over. Tutoring works best when you want guidance on a few specific aspects of how to study for the GMAT, such as guessing strategies, word problems, or Critical Reasoning. It’s also an option if you’d like to take a GMAT course, but you need more flexibility or a different timeline. (If you have a deadline coming up, you could also check out our </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/bootcamp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT boot camps</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!) </span></p>
<h4><b>How to (Not) Study for the GMAT</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve met a lot of GMAT students over the years, and here are two that I’ve spoken with over and over again. They’re both putting a lot of time and energy into studying, but they both need to make a few changes to reach their goals. </span></p>
<p><b>Student 1: Problem-Solving Patricia</b></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I did every practice problem in the Official Guide. Then I did every problem from mba.com. I can usually solve Quant problems in four or five minutes, and I’m getting about 80% of them right. I also did every practice test twice. But I’m still not hitting my goal score, and I’m out of practice problems! Where can I find more GMAT problems?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Patricia is making two big mistakes. First, she’s not paying nearly enough attention to </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gmat-time-management-part-1-of-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT timing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. A lot of GMAT problems have a fast solution and a slow solution. When you give yourself four or five minutes to do a problem, you’re allowing yourself to practice the slow solutions, instead of learning to find the faster ones. Patricia should </span><b>time herself whenever she does practice problems</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She’s also doing a lot of problems, but she isn’t doing them thoughtfully enough. </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/how-many-gmat-problems-do-i-need-to-solve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blasting through a ton of problems is really satisfying, but you don’t learn </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">while</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you’re doing it</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Learning happens afterwards, when you review and reflect on how you solved those problems. Patricia is probably making the same mistakes over and over without realizing it. She should </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/error-log-the-1-way-to-raise-your-gmat-score/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>start a GMAT error log</b></a><b>, </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">identify areas she’s weak in, and use </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/on-demand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Interact</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or the </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Strategy Guides</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to study those areas in-depth. She should also do each problem more than once and spend more time reflecting on what to take away from those problems. </span></p>
<p><b>Student 2: Studious Shannon</b></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I took a GMAT class, read all of the Strategy Guides, and did all of the Interact lessons. I have a whole binder of notes on all of the math and grammar rules, and I’ve been studying my flashcards every day. But I’m still not hitting my goal score! What should I study next? Should I read the Advanced Quant book?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the GMAT was a college exam, Shannon would get an A+. On most exams, the more you know, the better you score! On the GMAT, knowledge is great, but </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">performance</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is even more important. And in order to improve your performance, you have to practice performance. Here’s the advice I’d give Shannon: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do actual GMAT problems, exactly how you’d do them on test day: with a timer, as part of a set of multiple problems. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you finish a set of problems, think deeply about two things. First, what was the best way to solve the problem? Second, for each problem you missed or spent too long on, why did it happen? Record this info in your error log.  </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shannon also might be thinking quantity, not quality. When she does poorly on a practice test, she assumes that there’s some topic she hasn’t learned about yet. But Shannon’s probably already studied all of the GMAT material she needs. She just needs to apply </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlearning" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">overlearning</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the topics she’s already studied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking for more GMAT study principles? Here are some links to check out: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/break-good-gmat-study-habits-learning-science-can-teach-us-effective-gmat-studying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good and bad GMAT study habits</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/juice-gmat-quant-problems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Analyzing a GMAT Quant problem</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-effect-mixing-it-up-boosts-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blocking versus interleaving</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/the-myth-of-im-bad-at-math/280914/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The myth of ‘bad at math’</span></a></li>
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<h4><b>How You Should Study for the GMAT</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s an outline of how to study for the GMAT the right way. When you study, you’ll spend most of your time doing three things: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learning about a topic or a strategy</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Practicing by doing GMAT problems</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reviewing and analyzing what you’re learning</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learning about a topic or strategy is an ongoing process. Don’t assume that you’ll read the Geometry Strategy Guide once and never miss a Geometry problem again. That’s not how your brain retains info! You’re better off learning a new topic in small chunks, not all at once. Even then, you’ll need to periodically review what you’ve learned.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are your best resources for learning about a new topic. If you’re taking a GMAT course, you can add ‘go to the class session on the topic’ to this list!</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read the Strategy Guide chapter(s) on the topic and do the end-of-chapter drill problems. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do the GMAT Interact lesson on the topic.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For math topics, Khan Academy is a great resource! You can even search for ‘math worksheets’ plus the name of your topic online, and you’ll find a ton of drill problems. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a wealth of information on sites such as </span><a href="https://gmatclub.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMATClub</span></a>—<span style="font-weight: 400;">although, since a lot of it is written by anonymous users, you should take it with a grain of salt. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the way, if you’re wondering which topics to start with, try taking and </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/analyze-gmat-practice-tests-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reviewing a practice GMAT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. If you work through the full review process, you’ll walk away with a list of topics to prioritize. You can also check out this article on </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/high-value-gmat-quant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">high-value GMAT Quant</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are two different ways to do practice GMAT problems, and both of them play into the right way to study for the GMAT. You can practice problems on a specific topic (or a specific type of problem), or you can do mixed practice problem sets, to work on your general problem-solving skills. Here’s where you can find great GMAT practice problems for either of these goals: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/official-guides-for-gmat/official-guide-for-gmat-review-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Official Guide</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.mba.com/exam-prep/gmat-official-guide-quantitative-review-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Official Guide to GMAT Quantitative Review</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.mba.com/exam-prep/gmat-official-guide-verbal-review-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Official Guide to GMAT Verbal Review</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.mba.com/exam-prep/gmat-official-practice-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Official Practice Questions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from mba.com</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This type of practice also includes taking practice tests. Throughout your GMAT studies, you should take a practice GMAT </span><b>every two to three weeks</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Taking practice tests regularly will keep you informed about your progress. But taking them too often will wear you out and waste your practice tests without teaching you much. There are more efficient ways to study for the GMAT than taking practice tests—like doing targeted, timed sets of Official Guide problems. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, review is a critical part of learning. To review what you’ve learned from class, from Interact, or from the Strategy Guides, consider making “cheat sheets” for each topic you’ve studied. Choose a topic, and based on your notes and your own recollection, write down the most important tips and rules for that topic. Then, do a few new problems on that topic, to confirm that you didn’t miss anything!  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can also review by creating and studying “GMAT code” flashcards. Read this article on </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/cracking-gmat-code/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cracking the GMAT code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and start making flashcards based on problems! (If you’re not up for making your own, the </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manhattan Prep GMAT app</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  is a little like a great set of flashcards. </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/heres-how-to-study-with-the-manhattan-prep-gmat-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s some guidance on how to use the app.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the most important part of your review is your </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/error-log-the-1-way-to-raise-your-gmat-score/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">error log</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Record every practice problem you do, and set aside one study session per week where you </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">only</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> redo and analyze old problems. Always mark problems you’d like to try again later: these should be problems that were just a bit too tough for you when you first tried them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One great review hack: never do </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">all</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the end-of-chapter drill problems the first time you read a Strategy Guide chapter. Leave a few for later, then try them a week after reading the chapter.   </span></p>
<h4><b>Quick How-to-Study Tips</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a lot of information here, so we’ll finish up with a couple of bite-sized GMAT study tips. </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The best study plan is the one you’ll stick to. Even if you aren’t studying for the GMAT perfectly, if you’re able to study consistently and stay motivated, you’ll make progress. You don’t have to do everything in this article all at once!  </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re taking a Manhattan Prep GMAT course, your instructor can answer questions on how to study! Don’t hesitate to reach out. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Always know what you’re going to study next so that when you get some free time to study, you won’t have to wonder how to use it. Creating a study calendar for each week takes a bit of time, but it’s a huge help in the long run. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s better to study a smaller amount of material thoroughly than to rush through everything. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find balance in your studies. Don’t spend all of your time doing problems, but don’t spend all of your time reading books, either. And no matter what you do, spend plenty of time re-reading, re-doing, and reviewing. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you start studying, you’ll have a lot of new stuff to learn. That’s fine! As you move towards test day, shift more towards practicing real problems and “warming up” for test day. By the time you’re ready to take the GMAT, you’ll be totally prepared for the real thing. ?</span></span></li>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>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.) [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome back! If you haven’t already, start with <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2018/07/18/analyze-gmat-practice-tests-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Part 1</a> 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.)</span><span id="more-16034"></span></p>
<h4><b>Analyze Your Timing</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even if your cumulative time was fine, you might still exhibit a very common problem on GMAT practice tests: up and down timing. This is when you spend way too much time on some problems and then speed up on others to catch back up. Your overall timing works out, but you still have a serious timing imbalance on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">individual</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tables below show the rough timing categories to watch out for, by problem type, along with some commentary afterward about how to use the tables. (Don’t start your analysis till you’ve read this whole section.)</span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16038" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/sk-474-image-1.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - 4 Steps to Analyze Your GMAT Practice Tests (Part 2) by Stacey Koprince" width="571" height="108" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/sk-474-image-1.png 571w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/sk-474-image-1-300x57.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px" /></p>
<p>The definition of “Warning Track” is really just getting close to the Too Slow time. I pay attention to how often I come <i>close</i> to Too Slow without actually going over.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s fine to have some </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Warning Track</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> questions—just be careful not to have </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">so</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> many that you’re causing yourself big headaches elsewhere. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Averages for Verbal questions vary by type, so for Verbal, I recommend analyzing one type at a time.</span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16039" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/sk-474-image-2.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - 4 Steps to Analyze Your GMAT Practice Tests (Part 2)" width="571" height="183" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/sk-474-image-2.png 571w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/sk-474-image-2-300x96.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px" /></p>
<p>Now. How to use all of the above?</p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Too Fast</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has a question mark after the Too (?) because there are two great reasons to have a really fast problem:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(1) You knew exactly what you were doing and you got it right—fast.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2) You knew you didn’t know how to do it and you guessed—fast.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If either of those is the case, great: I did the right thing! However, if I miss something I knew how to do because I made a careless mistake—I have a timing problem. Or if I misread the problem because I was rushing through…ditto.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From now on, when I say Too Fast, I’m referring specifically to the not-good reasons. When you have a good reason to go fast, it’s not </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">too</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> fast.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Too Slow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is too slow even if you got the problem right. When you take that much time, you just cause yourself problems elsewhere in the section.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, in your problem list, click on the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> column header. This will re-sort the questions from fastest to slowest (you can click it again to sort from slowest to fastest). Examine the problems by time, using the tables as a guide.</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many “too fast” questions did you think you were getting right but you missed? Or you did get right but got lucky? Or you missed but think you could have gotten right if you’d only had time to try it properly?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many “too slow” questions did you miss? Look at the problems—at what point should you have cut yourself off and guessed?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you have any crazy-slow problems (e.g. a minute beyond the Too Slow time)? Even if you got it right, maybe you should have gotten it wrong much faster and spent that time elsewhere.</span></li>
</ul>
<h4><b>How Was Your Timing on Your GMAT Practice Tests?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have more than a couple of questions in the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">too fast</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">too slow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> categories (for the latter, regardless of whether they’re right or wrong), then you’ve got a timing problem on GMAT practice tests. For example, if you had 4 questions over 3m each, then you almost certainly missed other questions elsewhere simply due to speed—that extra time had to come from </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">somewhere</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. And chances are it came from a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">too fast</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> problem on which you made a mistake.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alternatively, if there is even one that is very far over the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">too slow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> mark, you have a timing problem. If you have one Quant question on which you spent 4m30s, you might let yourself do this on more questions on the real test—and there goes your score. (By the way, the only potentially acceptable reason is: I was at the end of the section and knew I had extra time, so I used it. And my next question would be: what about saving that mental energy for the next section of the test? </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/263a.png" alt="☺" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For each section of the test, get a general sense of whether there is:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">not much of a timing problem (e.g., only 1 or 2 questions in the too fast or too slow range—and not way too slow),</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a small timing problem (e.g., 4-5 questions in the warning track range, or a couple of problems in the too slow category, plus a few too fast questions), or</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a larger timing problem (e.g., >5 questions in the warning track range, or 3+ questions that are too slow or some that are way too slow, plus multiple too fast questions).</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note that I don’t specify above whether the warning track and too slow questions were answered correctly or incorrectly. It isn’t (necessarily) okay to spend too much time just because the question was answered correctly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next, what is that timing problem </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">costing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you on your GMAT practice tests? How many problems fit into the different categories? Approximately how much time total was spent on the “too slow” problems? How many “too fast” questions did that cost you or could it have cost you? Did it cost you any other problems? Examine all of the problems (even those done with normal time) to locate careless errors. How many of your careless errors occurred when you were rushing or just plain tired out because you’d spent too much mental effort elsewhere?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, are there any patterns in terms of the content area? For example, perhaps 80% of the &#8220;too slow&#8221; Quant problems were PS Story problems or two of the &#8220;too slow&#8221; SC problems were Modifier problems. Next time, we’re going to talk about how to use the assessment reports to dive more into this data on your GMAT practice tests, but do try to get a high level sense of any patterns that jump out at you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of the above allows you to quantify just how bad any timing problems are. Now, I’m going to make a pronouncement that will wow you: You have a timing problem, don’t you?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actually, we all have timing problems. The question is just what yours are and how significant they are. If you’re having trouble letting go on hard questions (and, really, aren’t we all?), learn </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2016/05/26/develop-a-business-mindset-to-maximize-your-roi-on-the-gmat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">how to make better decisions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during the exam.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And one more thing: Take a look at part 1 of this article on </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2016/08/19/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gmat-time-management-part-1-of-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time Management</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. (It’s a 3-parter. You don’t have to look at all three parts now.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now we’re done looking at the problem lists. What have you learned about yourself? How do you think that should inform your studies for the next several weeks? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us next time, when we’ll analyze the detailed data given in the assessment reports. </span></p>
<p><strong>Keep Reading:</strong> <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2018/08/08/analyze-gmat-practice-tests-part-3/">Part 3</a></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stacey Koprince]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>How many GMAT practice tests have you taken so far? Are you satisfied—or frustrated—with your progress? One of the biggest mistakes I see students make is also relatively easy to fix: they don’t learn what they should be learning from their practice tests. This is exactly what we’re going to talk about in this series. [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many GMAT practice tests have you taken so far? Are you satisfied—or frustrated—with your progress?</span><span id="more-16024"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the biggest mistakes I see students make is also relatively easy to fix: they don’t learn what they should be learning from their practice tests. This is exactly what we’re going to talk about in this series.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we’re going to talk about a global review of your GMAT practice tests: How did you do on executive reasoning and timing?</span></p>
<h4><b>You Don’t Get Better <em>W</em></b><em><b>hile</b></em><b> Taking a Practice Test</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wait, if you don’t get better </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">while</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> taking a practice test, then why are we starting here? Read on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever done this? You take a test, but aren’t happy with your score, so a few days later (or even the next day!), you take another exam. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bad move! First, your data from that first test already tells you what you need to know; your skills aren’t going to change radically in a week. Don’t waste 3 hours of valuable study time (not to mention, one of your limited GMAT practice tests!) in order to get the same data that you already have.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alternatively, have you read online that someone out there took 14 GMAT practice tests in a 6-week period and swears by this method of studying because he then got a 760? If you do just what he did, you’ll get a 760 too!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sadly, that’s unlikely to work either. Do you remember that one kid from your school, the one who was always excited when standardized test days came around? She was super annoying because she just did well on these tests “naturally” and she actually </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">liked</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> taking them. (Yes, that was me. Sorry.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s the thing: for people like me, sure, the brute force approach seems to work. But we are, in fact, extensively analyzing our own data; we just do so more quickly than most. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> needs to use this data to figure out how to get better.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re going to use your GMAT practice tests to:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(1) practice what you’ve already learned,</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2) provide data to help you build a roughly 2-3 week study plan prioritizing certain things based on what your analysis told you, and</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">(3) figure out how to get better at </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2013/06/03/what-the-gmat-really-tests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">executive reasoning</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Go ahead and click that link now. I’ll wait.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ready? Let’s go!</span></p>
<h4><b>Use Your GMAT Practice Tests to Learn Your Strengths and Weaknesses</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within the first roughly 2 weeks of your study, take a practice test. (Seriously! Don’t put this off!) Also: the gap between practice test 1 and 2 will be on the longer side—say 6 to 8 weeks. After that, you’ll settle into a more regular cycle of about 2 to 3 weeks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;ll base my discussion on the metrics that are given in Manhattan Prep GMAT practice tests, but you can extrapolate to other tests that give you similar performance data. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will likely need </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">at least</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 60 minutes to do this analysis, not counting any time spent analyzing individual problems. If that sounds like a lot, split this into smaller tasks. Plan to spend 30 minutes each for your initial analysis of Quant and Verbal.</span></p>
<h4><b><i>Where Should I Start?</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I know you’ll want to look at your overall scores first. But don&#8217;t do what so many people do—immediately become demoralized because you think your score is too low. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Right now, your score is what it is—but this isn’t the real test. You’re going to use this to get better. That’s the real focus here.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, let’s put those scores into some context. First, how confident can you be that they reflect your current ability level?</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you run out of time in any section and either guess randomly to finish or just not finish the section at all? </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If so, your score will be pushed down, so your actual ability level is likely higher than your score reflects. (But you do need to fix the timing problem.)</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conversely, did you use the pause button or otherwise use extra time to solve anything? Did you take much longer breaks than the real test would allow or look something up? </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If so, your score may be artificially inflated. (This is why we recommend sticking strictly to test conditions when taking a practice exam.)</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you take the exam after a long day at work when you were already pretty mentally fatigued? </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If so, your performance might have dropped as a result.</span></li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next, pull up the problem list for Quant or Verbal. The problem lists show each question, in order as you took the test, as well as various data points about those questions. </span></p>
<h4><b><i>“Correct / Incorrect” Column</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any strings of 4+ questions wrong?</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If so, look at time spent. Were you low on time and rushing?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alternatively, were they really hard? Maybe you’d done well on the prior problems, so got a few really hard ones…and maybe you should have gotten these hard ones wrong.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you happen to get a string of things that you just didn’t know how to do at the time, but looking at them now, you think you can learn (at least some of) this?</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>The “I did well! And then I didn’t…” scenario</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first one or two in a string were really hard, so you spent extra time. You got them wrong (because…they’re hard). You knew you spent extra time, so you sped up on the next couple and made careless mistakes, getting those wrong as well. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this happened to you, what do you think you should do to remedy the issue?</span></p>
<p><strong>The “I didn’t study this yet and/or this is a weakness” scenario</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You ran up against a little string of things that you haven’t studied yet—or maybe it was a mix of things you don’t like and things you haven’t studied yet. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What should you do about this?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the first scenario, you probably need to train yourself to bail quickly on the stuff that’s too hard even when you spend extra time. Then, you won’t be behind on time when you get a question at a level you can handle, and so you’ll be able to get that one right next time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the second scenario, which of these things is a good opportunity for you to learn? Add a couple of things to your study plan for the coming week or two—but don&#8217;t add </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">every</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">thing. There’s only so much you can do in a couple of weeks, so be choosy.</span></p>
<h4><b><i>“Cumulative Time” vs. “Target Cumulative Time”</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Go back up to the top of the Problem List. The Cumulative Time column tells you how much time you spent to that point in the section. The Target Cumulative Time column indicates how much time you’d want to have spent based on the timing averages we need to hit for the exam. Compare the two columns.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How closely did you stick to the expected timeframe? It’s completely normal to be off by +/- 2 minutes, and I’m actually not too concerned as long as you’re within about 3 minutes of the expected timeframe.</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you 3+ minutes behind (too slow)? If so, where was that extra time spent? How well did you really do on those problems? </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They should be all or mostly correct, since you chose to allocate extra time to them! </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the ones you&#8217;re getting wrong even with extra time, start cutting yourself off when faced with a  similar problem in future.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you 3+ minutes ahead (too fast)? If so, where are you picking up that time? How well did you do on those problems? </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you know you don’t know how to do a problem, it’s a great idea to guess fast. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you were going quickly because you did know how to do it, though, and then made a careless mistake, you’ll want to remedy the overall timing problem so that you don’t make that kind of mistake next time.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><b><i>Pause and Reflect</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re about halfway through our analysis of the Problem List. What have you figured out so far? What are your hypotheses about what went well and what didn&#8217;t go as well? Are there any particular things you want to look out for to help confirm or deny those hypotheses as you continue analyzing?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us next time for <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2018/07/26/analyze-gmat-practice-tests-part-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Part 2</a>, where we’ll dive more deeply into a timing analysis of individual problems on GMAT practice tests. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span><span id="more-15288"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because I’m in California, I mostly watched the Olympics in the late evening after work. During the final days of competition, I thought I would come home from my GMAT class and relax by watching whatever event they were showing that night. It turns out, that event was the four-man bobsled; the Germans ended up winning the event by more than half a second, a fairly convincing margin. As I was watching the various teams fly down the course, I noticed the announcers saying some variation of one thing over and over: “This team had a slow start; it will be difficult to make up that much time!” As I heard them say it, I realized that I can’t escape the GMAT, even after class when I just want to relax and watch the Olympics.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You probably already know that after you take a </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/free-gmat-practice-test/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT practice CAT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (computer-adaptive test) from Manhattan Prep, you receive access to analytics from your test. Included in these analytics is the amount of time spent on each problem during the test. Part of my job as an instructor is to look over my students’ analytics so that I can give them recommendations regarding how they can improve their score. One of the most common problems I see is that a student will spend too much time on the first 5, 10, or 20 questions; then at some point they will realize that they have fallen behind, and they have to catch up. Then the panic hits, the student begins to rush, they stop reading carefully, they miss questions, and their score plummets.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I realized that we can all take a lesson in GMAT timing from the German bobsled team: if you want to be successful, have a fast start! In bobsled, if your team has a slow start, the sled will have less momentum for the entire run, compounding the problem. The driver will also have to make riskier steering decisions throughout the race. On the GMAT, if you have a slow start, you will be forced into guessing more often than you really need to. You may also see some questions that are unnecessarily difficult, resulting in strings of missed questions towards the middle and the end of the test. In other words, a slow start on the GMAT can affect you for the rest of the test—if your start is very slow, it will be impossible to recover the time, and you’ll also make the rest of the test harder! Conversely, if you really push the pace during the beginning of the test, you’ll find that you’re better able to concentrate towards the end since you aren’t in a rush. I often find that students who build themselves even just a 2-minute cushion after the first 12 questions end up gaining points during the last 12 questions. It’s not a coincidence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So if you’re a slow starter on the GMAT, try this one very easy-to-implement idea: Make absolutely sure to finish the first 12 questions of each CAT section with 55:00 on the clock, even if it means guessing on a couple. Then, just make sure not to burn your new time advantage on one single question (in other words, keep a decent pace throughout the rest of the test)—I think you’ll find this easier to do anyway now that you started at the pace you should! If you don’t believe me, just ask the Germans. ?</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">*This is the only curling pun I have ever made and ever will make.</span></i></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><b><i></i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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?</span><span id="more-14977"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, there could be a variety of issues, but the first one to check is always your GMAT timing. Now, that might be even more frustrating, because on the first test you ran out of time and left a question or two blank at the end, but now you’ve gotten that under control and are tracking your time and finishing them all—but your score still won’t budge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It might still be GMAT timing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While you’ve figured out the first timing danger (running out of time), you might still be falling into the real GMAT timing danger. </span><b>The real GMAT timing danger is stress.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">See, stress does funny things to us. It causes us to make bad decisions and forget things we usually know. The stress of trying to stay “on time” during the GMAT can cause issues all throughout the test. In fact, the stress of trying to hit GMAT timing benchmarks and move quickly can actually cause you to take longer on each question! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I once had a student who could do almost any question individually in under 2 minutes, but anytime he took a practice test, he ran into GMAT timing trouble and was stuck in the low 600s. He tried hiding the timer during the test and saw his score shoot up nearly 100 points! For him, just the presence of that timer ticking down caused all kinds of problems. Now, I wouldn’t recommend that everyone hide the timer, but it does show just how much the stress of time management can affect you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another way to see the real danger of GMAT timing stress is to consider this scenario:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a set of 20 questions, you have 40 minutes. If you just relax and don’t think about </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">time, you’ll only finish 18 of those questions, but you’ll do pretty well on those 18. So </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">you have two choices:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">1) Relax, do the 18 questions, get 14 of them right, and skip the last 2. Altogether, you get 14/20 right.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2) Watch the clock and push yourself to get through all 20, but the stress causes you to miss several of the ones that you could have otherwise gotten. So you only get 10/20 right.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which would you prefer?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, that’s a simplified scenario that doesn’t fully account for the GMAT scoring algorithm, but it does illustrate the way that GMAT timing stress can impact your score and points to a way to mitigate the effects of that timing stress.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, consider simplifying your GMAT timing approach by </span><b>skipping questions when you fall behind</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. By </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">skip</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, I mean </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">take an immediate guess</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Many students try to catch up by letting go of questions more quickly or just moving a little faster, but both of these approaches tend to increase stress and lead to mistakes. Better to just catch up on more time with less effort by fully skipping.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, </span><b>limit how much you look at the clock</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Keeping a constant eye on the clock tends to increase stress and doesn’t actually pay off in any meaningful way. Make a plan for when you’re going to check the clock and only check it at those points to see whether you need to skip a question to catch up.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally and most importantly, remember that skipping questions to catch up on time or getting out of hard questions to save time </span><b>is not failure</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Those are good decisions, and since the GMAT is a test of decision-making, they are essential to scoring well on the test. ?</span></p>
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<p>So, you&#8217;ve just finished your first practice GMAT, and you&#8217;ve reviewed your assessment report. (If you haven&#8217;t generated an <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/articles/assessment-reports.cfm?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CC%2026%20-%20I%20just%20Took%20My%20First%20Practice%20GMAT.%20Now%20what%3F%20Link%20to%20Assessment%20Report&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">assessment report</a> 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&#8217;ll share some of the most common questions raised by the first practice GMAT, and how to answer them.<span id="more-11845"></span></p>
<h4><strong>“I’m good at math, so why isn’t my Quant score higher?”</strong></h4>
<p>Even if you&#8217;re comfortable with math, you may have scored in a much higher percentile in Verbal than you did in Quant. That can be especially surprising for people who use mathematics in their work—you&#8217;ve spent your whole career thinking of yourself as a quantitative person, so why is the GMAT trying to tell you the opposite?</p>
<p>After a certain point, knowing more math can hurt you as much as it helps you. That&#8217;s because a high level of mathematical knowledge sometimes leads to a mindset that&#8217;s terrible for your overall score: &#8220;I &#8216;get&#8217; this problem, so I&#8217;m going to keep working until I&#8217;ve solved it.&#8221; Success on GMAT Quant only requires middle- and high-school math skills, but it requires a very high level of self-awareness and <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/what-the-gmat-really-tests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">executive reasoning ability</a>. If you insist on solving every problem that you <em>understand</em>, you&#8217;re going to solve a few of the hardest problems, but you&#8217;ll inevitably run out of time and energy and end up missing a lot of easy problems later. Missing easy problems hurts your score <em>much</em> more than answering hard questions helps it. That&#8217;s why you may have gotten a lower Quant score than your classmate with weaker math skills, who chose to focus on the easier problems and ignore the hard ones.</p>
<p>When you take your second practice test, remember that just <em>understanding</em> a problem isn&#8217;t enough to make it worth solving. You also need to be confident that you can finish the entire problem in around 2 minutes, which is much less time than you might think. Let some of those tedious problems go by, and spend a few extra seconds to check your work on the simple stuff. You might be surprised how much it helps your score.</p>
<h4><strong>“I only got half of the questions right! Is that bad? How many more do I need to get right to get a 700?”</strong></h4>
<p>Maybe you only got 48% of the problems right when you took your first practice GMAT. Fortunately, that number means very little. The GMAT doesn’t work like a traditional college test, where everyone gets the same test and earns a score based on how many questions they get right. Instead, on the GMAT, everyone takes a <em>different</em> test and gets <em>almost the</em> <em>same</em> number of questions right. Your score is actually a measurement of how hard a test you took, not how many questions you answered correctly.</p>
<p>When you take your next practice test, you&#8217;ll probably get a higher score, but you probably won&#8217;t get many more questions right. Instead, consider these two things:</p>
<p>&#8211; Even though the overall percentage doesn&#8217;t matter much, you don&#8217;t want to miss more questions in one content area than in another. If you answer 29% of Critical Reasoning questions correctly, but 85% of Sentence Correction questions, that&#8217;s something you need to work to correct. The test&#8217;s algorithm doesn&#8217;t take into account the different question types. If you miss an easy Critical Reasoning question, you&#8217;ll start seeing easier Sentence Correction and Reading Comprehension questions as well, even if you could handle much tougher ones.</p>
<p>&#8211; If you track the percent of questions you answer correctly as you study, don&#8217;t use it as an indicator of what your score will be. Instead, use it to fine-tune the difficulty level you&#8217;re studying at. The most effective problems to study are right at your current level or just above it. If you answer 90% of questions from a drill set correctly, that means you picked a too-easy drill set! Adjust the difficulty upwards until you&#8217;re consistently missing about 1/3 of the questions when you study.</p>
<h4><strong>“I didn’t finish the entire section. Is that okay?”</strong></h4>
<h4><strong>“I finished with twenty minutes to spare. Is <em>that</em> okay?”</strong></h4>
<p>Timing is a big part of playing the GMAT game. If you run out of time, the test’s algorithm penalizes you severely. For a real eye-opener, review your test and look for the highest percentile score you reached during each section. Compare that to the percentile score you ended up with. I’ve seen many students reach the 60<sup>th</sup> percentile or higher halfway through a section, then dip into the 20s when running out of time. If you’re in that situation, your real ability level is probably somewhere in the middle—40<sup>th</sup> or 50<sup>th</sup> percentile. That’s the score you’d earn today if you took the test and only answered questions that you could get through without taking too much time. Try it on your next test and see!</p>
<p>Finishing early doesn’t hurt your score directly, but it’s a sign that you may have rushed. Look through the questions you spent the least time on. Can you spot any simple arithmetic failures or logical errors? It’s always okay to guess quickly on a hard problem, but missing an easy problem is really bad for your score. Take all the time you need to answer easy problems with 100% confidence. On Verbal, wrong answers are sometimes wrong due to one or two incorrect words—these wrong answers are particularly hard to spot if you&#8217;re moving quickly.</p>
<h4><strong>Don&#8217;t worry too much about the content just yet.</strong></h4>
<p>Your very first practice GMAT score in no way reflects your true abilities. To give the GMAT an accurate picture of your reasoning skills, you need to become an expert at taking it. So, put together a plan that includes strategy and timing as well as content. Why not start by taking one of our <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/free/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=Free%20Trial%20GMAT%20Classes%20Link&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">free GMAT Trial Classes</a>? ?</p>
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<p><em><strong><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgre%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyBioGREBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GRE%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chelsey Cooley</a><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgre%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyBioGREBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GRE%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-10949 size-thumbnail" title="Chelsey Cooley Manhattan Prep GMAT Instructor" src="https://d27gmszdzgfpo3.cloudfront.net/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/chelsey-cooley-150x150.png" alt="Chelsey Cooley Manhattan Prep GMAT Instructor" width="150" height="150" /></a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Seattle, Washington.</strong> Chelsey always followed her heart when it came to her education. Luckily, her heart led her straight to the perfect background for GMAT and GRE teaching: she has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and history, a master’s degree in linguistics, a 790 on the GMAT, and a perfect 170/170 on the GRE. Check out Chelsey’s upcoming GMAT prep offerings <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyCoursesLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog#instructor/336" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>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&#8217;t go dark on you between questions).</p>
<p>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&#8217;t stop. It&#8217;ll continue running.</p>
<p>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&#8217;re done, you&#8217;ll have your per-question timing data.</p>
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<p><em><strong><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/stacey-koprince/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=KoprinceBioLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank">Stacey Koprince</a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Montreal, Canada and Los Angeles, California.</strong> Stacey has been teaching the GMAT, GRE, and LSAT  for more than 15 years and is one of the most well-known instructors in the industry. Stacey loves to teach and is absolutely fascinated by standardized tests. <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=KoprinceCoursesLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog#instructor/86">Check out Stacey’s upcoming GMAT courses here</a>.</em></p>
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