Thursday, July 2, 2015

GMAT : 30 Day Plan to score 650

I will be writing my GMAT by the end of August and I target to achieve a score of 650 with 49 in Quant and 30 in Verbal . The plan will contain following action points:

Verbal is all about retention
  • In Verbal, retention of already mastered concepts is much more important than mastering any new concept since revising all mastered concepts from start to end takes very long time. So, make condensed notes to revise SC(less than 3 hours), CR(less than 2 hours) and RC(less than 1 hour)
  • For CR, master pen-paper approach by redoing problems from OG15 and VR15  and maintaining less than 2 minutes per problems for 90% problems
  • For SC, 90% of problems from OG15, VR15 and e-GMAT course must be solvable in less than 2 minutes and reason for all incorrect choices must also be identified within this time 
Quant is all about practice
  • For PS, I must understand and come up with final approach to solve 90% of problems from OG15 and QR15 in less than 2 minutes.
  • For DS, I must narrow down answer choice to just one for 90% of problems from OG15 and QR15 in less than 3 minutes.
Full-Length Exam to optimize intuitive mechanism
  • In real GMAT, there is a trade-off between accuracy and time taken. I must take full-length exam on each weekend to optimize this trade-off metric, to develop an intuitive assessment mechanism which guides on when to switch to next question and to develop skills to accelerate problem solving in situations of time crunch
Hopefully, all the above action items will be completed religiously.


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