Hi,
Details of my two previous attempts
GMAT 1: 640 (Q48, V31)
Materials Used : OG13, OG12 , Verbal Prep
Difficulty Faced : Energy preservation and maintaining focus to make sense out of questions on screen.
GMAT 2 : 630 (Q46, V31)
Materials Used : OG13, OG12 , Verbal Prep
Difficulty Faced : Maintaining track of time which cost almost last 10 questions.
I am planning to give GMAT in first week of August 2015 (I want to apply for the 2016 batch).
Difficulties faced in Overall Verbal Section :
1) Poor Timing management : Loosing the track of time in the heat of solving the questions. This was particularly happened in my second attempt when I missed left with 10 questions for 7 minutes, almost guessed every alternate questions and still couldn't answer last question. Some advice needed over how to keep track of time, because I found that frequent glance at timer just make things worse by putting pressure.
2) Exhaustion in the last section : As verbal is the last section of 4 hour long test, it becomes very difficult to preserve best of performance in the end. The energy is drained heavily in IR and Quant section. Need advice on how to maintain sufficient energy to perform 100% of once ability.
3) Lost focus : Energy draining also takes a tall on focus. This particularly happened in first attempt when I was feeling the question were out of world difficult and couldn't focus properly on understanding the same.
Question Type specific difficulties
SC
Reading and analyzing original sentence, finding the error/s in original sentence and reading, analyzing and eliminating the options consumes lot of time. Even with lot of practice this timing is not improved much and often consumes almost 2~2.5 minutes.
CR
Reading and creating argument structure on calculations sheet (E-GMAT process ) is quite time consuming. Is there any quicker way of solving CR question quickly without pen and paper?
RC
Lot of rereading (front and back) to understand and make sense of content. Taking notes again consume time. Is there any quicker way to handle these kind of questions?![]()
Details of my two previous attempts
GMAT 1: 640 (Q48, V31)
Materials Used : OG13, OG12 , Verbal Prep
Difficulty Faced : Energy preservation and maintaining focus to make sense out of questions on screen.
GMAT 2 : 630 (Q46, V31)
Materials Used : OG13, OG12 , Verbal Prep
Difficulty Faced : Maintaining track of time which cost almost last 10 questions.
I am planning to give GMAT in first week of August 2015 (I want to apply for the 2016 batch).
Difficulties faced in Overall Verbal Section :
1) Poor Timing management : Loosing the track of time in the heat of solving the questions. This was particularly happened in my second attempt when I missed left with 10 questions for 7 minutes, almost guessed every alternate questions and still couldn't answer last question. Some advice needed over how to keep track of time, because I found that frequent glance at timer just make things worse by putting pressure.
2) Exhaustion in the last section : As verbal is the last section of 4 hour long test, it becomes very difficult to preserve best of performance in the end. The energy is drained heavily in IR and Quant section. Need advice on how to maintain sufficient energy to perform 100% of once ability.
3) Lost focus : Energy draining also takes a tall on focus. This particularly happened in first attempt when I was feeling the question were out of world difficult and couldn't focus properly on understanding the same.
Question Type specific difficulties
SC
Reading and analyzing original sentence, finding the error/s in original sentence and reading, analyzing and eliminating the options consumes lot of time. Even with lot of practice this timing is not improved much and often consumes almost 2~2.5 minutes.
CR
Reading and creating argument structure on calculations sheet (E-GMAT process ) is quite time consuming. Is there any quicker way of solving CR question quickly without pen and paper?
RC
Lot of rereading (front and back) to understand and make sense of content. Taking notes again consume time. Is there any quicker way to handle these kind of questions?