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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>
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<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" 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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					<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>
<ul>
<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>
</li>
</ul>
<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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