tactical strategy session nov 22
TRANSCRIPT
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Tactical Strategy SesSTRATEGIES RESPONSIBLE FOR 70+ POIN
IMPROVEMENT IN YOUR GMAT SCORE
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Agenda
1. GMAT and Ability
Why ability is the most
important metric on the GMAT?
2. Timi
ng
Do you really have a Timing
Problem?
3. How to Prepare for Mocks
Do the Pre-Work to avoidsurprises in Mocks
4. In Mocks – Timin
g and Smart Ski
Strategies to ensure that you get the maxim
score for a given ability?
5. Crafting your 30 day Plan
Putting everything together to move from 65
720+ in 30 days?
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3 parts to this Webinar
The Company
The People
12 minutes 100 minutes
Tactical
Strategies
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e-GMAT e-GMAT the Company – The CGpany
Born : Sept 2011 to Help Non Natives
Students: 12,000+ in 45 countries
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- 70% of all Non-Native Reviews
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GMAT Club’s Most Successful Company
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Mocks
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Lots of Prac
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Nov Batch Calendar
S.No Session Name Day Date S
1 Strategy Session Sunday Nov 8
2 SC1 – How to Approach SC Saturday Nov 14
3 SC2 – Solving SC Questions with Verb Errors Sunday Nov 154 SC3 – Parallelism Saturday Nov 21
5 SC4 – Modifiers Sunday Nov 22
6 CR1 - Inference Saturday Nov 28
7 CR2 – Pre-thinking and Argument Structure Sunday Nov 29
8 CR3 – Evaluate Saturday Dec 5
9 CR4 – Strengthen Sunday Dec 6
10 CR5 – Weaken Sunday Dec 6
11 CR6 – Bold Face Saturday Dec 12
12 RC1 - Efficient Reading and Comprehension Sunday Dec 13
13 RC2 Session Saturday Dec 19
14 Verbal Workshop Sunday Dec 20
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3 parts to this Webinar
The Company
The People
12 minutes 100 minutes
Tactical
Strategies
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Two Goals – Score Improvement and Maximum Perfo
Repeatable & Predictable
Score Improvement
Maximum Perfor
A d
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Agenda
1. GMAT and Ability
Why ability is the most
important metric on the GMAT?
2. Timing
Do you really have a Timing
Problem?
3. How to Prepare for Mocks
Do the Pre-Work to avoidsurprises in Mocks
4. In Mocks – Timing and Smart Ski
Strategies to ensure that you get the maxim
score for a given ability?
5. Crafting your 30 day Plan
Putting everything together to move from 65
720+ in 30 days?
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an adaptive teworks?
Ad ti t t l ith
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Adaptive test algorithm
1 2 3 4 5 6
Question #
Case 1
Average Difficulty Level
Case 2 Only 1 question above
average difficulty level
5 questions above
average difficulty level
60%
accuracy
60%
accuracy
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
higher
score
Your GMAT score is governed by your ABILITY to answer DIFFICULT QUESTIO
GMAT t t f ABILITY
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GMAT – a test of your ABILITY
1 thru 10 11 thru 20 21 thru 30 31 thru 41
1 11 21 31
2 12 22 32
3 13 23 33
4 14 24 34
5 15 25 35
6 16 26 36
7 17 27 37
8 18 28 38
9 19 29 39
10 20 30 40
41
1 thru 10 11 thru 20 2
1 11
2 12
3 13
4 14
5 15
6 16
7 17
8 18
9 19
10 20
Accuracy = 71% Accu
97 percentile 7500 rank 65 percentile
Your GMAT score is governed by your ABILITY to CORRECTLY answer DIFFICULT Q
1. Student got more # of difficult questions.
2. Student correctly answered more # of difficult questions.
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How does “Ability” fare in
Preparations?
Abilit and the Fabric of GMAT
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Ability and the Fabric of GMAT
Your (Comparative)Percentile Rank
Your GMAT Score
Verbal Quant
SC CR RC Algebra Arithmetic Geometry Advanced Problems
Out of 80
Out of 6
Out of 6
At it’s Core, GMAT tests (multiple) Ability
This is not something that we have cooked
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This is not something that we have cooked
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Verbal Performance
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How does “Ability” fare in
Preparations?
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To Improve from 650 to 730, I need to Improve
1. RC ability from 40% to 70%
2. CR ability from 55% to 85%
3. Geometry ability from 45% to 85%
Repeatable & Predictable
Score Improvement
How many of you think this wa
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Lets Examine Ability!!
What is Good Abilit ?
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SC
CR
RC
What is Good Ability?
How to Prepare Efficiently?
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How to Prepare Efficiently?
Prepare
for SC
Evaluate
Ability
Isolate
Weakness
Principle: Take a Section, master it (70% ability), and only then move to the next
First Time Test Takers
Evaluate
Ability
Isolate
Weakness
Focus on
Weakness
Retakers (V>30)
Challenges while Implementing the plan
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Challenges while Implementing the plan
1. How do you Evaluate yo
Ability?• Only 4 GMAT Prep E
• Not designed to predi
individual Sectional A
2. How do you isolate areas
weakness?
• Get a Private Tutor? least $100 per hour)
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E-GMAT Students = Scholaranium
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Ability at Core
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V33 to V41 by working on his “ability”
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V33 to V41 by working on his ability
http://gmatclub.com/forum/660-to-740-q49-v41-ir-8-and-awa-6-0-matter-over-mind-163451.ht
... 1. SC: e-gmat all the way... Before e-gmat, my SC accuracy was in the
Post e-GMAT's verbal-live workshop and process-practice, I consistently
timed conditions). Timing averaged 1:30. I believe their (referring to the
method is more thorough, and therefore not as quick as the conventiona
However, with practice you will see both accuracy and speed increase...clearly committed to making sure students kill it on verbal.
2. CR: …I do like e-gmat's focus on pre-thinking. Pre-thinking can truly
Ability. Understanding the logical-structure and prethinking answer-chincredibly useful tools to boost your CR hit-rate. …
Learn and master the process to increase your “ability”
Agenda
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Agenda
1. GMAT and Ability
Why ability is the most
important metric on the GMAT?
2. Timing
Do you really have a Timing
Problem?
3. How to Prepare for Mocks
Do the Pre-Work to avoid
surprises in Mocks
4. In Mocks – Timing and Smart SkiStrategies to ensure that you get the maxim
score for a given ability?
5. Crafting your 30 day Plan
Putting everything together to move from 65
720+ in 30 days?
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How many of you have a timing proble
Why do we take long to answer a question
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y g q
Ability to read and
comprehendUnderstanding of theconcepts
Attack Strategy(Process)
Familiarity with
question types Agility of the mind
CR Assumption Question
Understand the argument
Pre-think the answer
Evaluate the answer choices
30-45 S
15 S
15-30 S
60 to 90
seconds
Student 1
Following a structured process improves timing & reduces anxiety during exam.
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Timing is not a cause…. It’s a symptom.
problem is generally process
What is Takt time?
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Takt time, derived from the German
word Taktzeit, which translates
to cycle time, sets the pace for
industrial manufacturing lines
For GMAT, it sets the
of answering questions
Takt Time = Time required to CORRECTLY answer a
Time < Takt Time
Lower accuracy
Lower score
1:45 Mins 1:25 Mins
80%
50%
V38
V30
Given your “ability”, if you spend < than TAKT time, you jeopardize accuracy. If > TAKT ti
Accuracy (confined set) Vs. Takt Time
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y ( )
A
c c u r a c y f o r Q u e s t
i o n o f
P
a r t i c u l a r d i f f i c u l t
y
Time
50%
15 – 25 S
Scholaranium Computes your Takt Time
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How to determine Takt Time?
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Create at least 2
mixed quizzes of
25 questions each.
Section Easy Medium Hard
SC 2 3 4
CR 2 2 4RC 2 2 4
For
calc
to a
CO
Take each quiz one by one
without timing yourself, but
record the time to answer each
question.
Section #
T
C
SC 18
CR 16
RC 16
Takt time is specific to each question type
Case 1: V37 to V40 by leveraging Takt Tim
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http://gmatclub.com/forum/750-q50-v41-how-i-bettered-my-mock-test-scores-158043.html
...There was a video from eGMAT that introduced me to the idea of Takt tim
optimum time an individual needs to mark a question of a certain type …
There is a school of thought that suggests that you must answer SC questi
my case, the strategy did not work. After I got introduced to the concept of
that 1:30 minutes is the average time I needed to mark an SC question cor
only marginally on that timing later on through practice. In my actual test th
took to answer SC questions should have been somewhere close to 1:20 m
minute. However, CR was my strength and I observed that on an average
minutes there. I read almost all RC passages big or small between 2 to 3 m
minute to answer the questions that followed.
Typically, in the test, you will receive an average of 4 RC passages with a t
14 CR questions and 14 SC questions. If you do the math, my timing strate
the total 75 minute span for Verbal. The bottom line is that there is no one s
when it comes to timing strategy. There is no point compromising on accura
where you tend to be naturally slow. Improve timing where it can be improv
extent that is possible without giving up accuracy.
Understand your limitations and strengths through Takt time and use this information ju
What is a “good” Takt time?
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Section Takt Time
SC 1' - 1' 30"
CR 1'45" - 2' 30"
RC 1'45" - 2' 30"
Myth
To get 700+ score, one needs to solve
SC question is less than a minute.
RealityIf you have the “ability”, even
time is 10”-15” more tha
recommended limits above, y
If your Takt time > limits then work to reduce
How can I improve Takt Time?
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I have “tImIng Issue”. I take mo
2’ to solve sC questIon.
You don’t have timing issue, you have gaps in “approach”
MeaningSentenceStructure
Gramma
UnderstandConclusion
Prethinking Answer
Read andComprehend
Prethinking Answer
Review detailed solutions
of each question and
figure out in which step of
the structured process
you went wrong.
Review each question in detail to diagnose the longer time to solv
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Come to any SM session and we wi
demonstrate how to reduce Takt Tim
Case 2: Bringing it all together – Another data
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GMAT Prep 3 – V34 GMAT Prep 4 – V38
Take Away: Takt Time Allows you to focus on St
Bringing it all together – Another data poi
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What made t
1. Focused on
2. Improve Im
Maintain
Take AWAY
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Recipe forsuccess inGMAT
Your Ability
Takt
Time
750
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prepare for Moc
Agenda
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1. GMAT and Ability
Why ability is the most
important metric on the GMAT?
2. Timing
Do you really have a Timing
Problem?
3. How to Prepare for Mocks
Do the Pre-Work to avoid
surprises in Mocks
4. In Mocks – Timing and Smart Ski
Strategies to ensure that you get the maxim
score for a given ability?
5. Crafting your 30 day Plan
Putting everything together to move from 65
720+ in 30 days?
Why do you take a mock Test?
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Why do you take a mock Test?
What preparation do you do before taking a
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What preparation do you do before taking a
What do you do after taking the mock te
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What do you do after taking the mock te(Possible Scenarios)
The outcome of Mock test depends
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SC
CRRC
Arith.
Algebra
Geometry
Word Prob.
ABILITY
Stamina Timing
SC
CR
Lack of Preparation Bad Mock Scores + Wasted E
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Designed to estimate
your Exam
Performance
Results are impacted
by timing
Most mock
not design
provide abil
Not a reliabl
your prepara
have preparethree sectio
DS in Quan
Accuracy - A Flawed Measure
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30 Questions Correct
V42
V38
V32
V22
On GMAT Prep (11 incorrect)
96 percentile
85 percentile
66 percentile
30 percentile
66 pe
desp
Accu
• Different section – bringing the score down
• Not just an isolated case – many users experience the same
Source: http://gmatclub com/forum/gmat-prep-software-analysis-and-what-if-scenarios-14
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640
660650
670660
30 days
Why does this happen?
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y pp
1. Imprecise Tar
2. Change in Dir
3. Lack of Self B
What should you be able to do….
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Precision Targeting
Help students isolate
weakness
Ability Calculatio
Accurate estimatio
of Ability in a
Pristine environme
Mock Preparation
Students should beconfident of their mock
strategy
Periodic Assessm
Students should beable to assess their
preparation at any
time.
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How to Evaluate Your Preparation?
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Sectional Abilities
Overall Verbal Ability
Drill Do
SCRC
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How do I get this ?
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Create Custom Quiz
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Create Custom Quiz
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Ability Quiz
1 2 3
1 2 3
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3 Days
+
Target
Achieved
Ability
Student Feedback
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“An Absolutely Brilliant and Innovative tool from e-GMAT that is a must have foserious GMAT aspirant… I am thoroughly enjoying this tool. Also the interface provireally easy way to take notes of concepts tested in a question and also an easy way t
bookmark questions that we would like to revisit…
I am really impressed with the feature of Scholaranium to show the weak area in It is helping me to identify which files I should go back to improve my basic constrengthen that area.
The platform provided an accurate account of the ability in particular section CR etc. It would be great if Takt time & total productive time can also be evalusystem.
750
Take AWAYBefore Exam
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Maximizeyour scoringin Mocks
750• Understand your strength
Weaknesses.
• Know your Takt Time
Agenda
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1. GMAT and Ability
Why ability is the most
important metric on the GMAT?
2. Timing
Do you really have a Timing
Problem?
3. How to Prepare for Mocks
Do the Pre-Work to avoid
surprises in Mocks
4. In Mocks – Timing and Smart Ski
Strategies to ensure that you get the maxim
score for a given ability?
5. Crafting your 30 day Plan
Putting everything together to move from 65
720+ in 30 days?
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Timing StrategiesFOR YOUR MOCKS
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GMAT – a test of your ABILITY (recap)97 percentile 7500 rank 65 percentile
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1 thru 10 11 thru 20 21 thru 30 31 thru 41
1 11 21 31
2 12 22 32
3 13 23 33
4 14 24 34
5 15 25 35
6 16 26 36
7 17 27 37
8 18 28 38
9 19 29 39
10 20 30 40
41
1 thru 10 11 thru 20 2
1 11
2 123 13
4 14
5 15
6 16
7 17
8 18
9 19
10 20
Accuracy = 71% Accu
p
Your GMAT score is governed by your ABILITY to CORRECTLY answer DIFFICULT Q
1. Student got more # of difficult questions.
2. Student correctly answered more # of difficult questions.
so…Should I not spend more time in
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Should I not spend more time in
first 10 Questions?
No, not more than nece
You cannot solve question correctly by spending more time on it. You can do it only by i
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Q 1- 7 – set A
Q8 - 15 – set B
70%
40%
43%
66%
Q 1- 7 – set B
Q8 - 15 – set A
Despite spending
more time for Q1 to 7,
student
set B qu
Is set B more difficult or did fatigue/rush set in?
your TAK
How should I pace myself?
0
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Q u e s t i o n N u m b e r
Q
1 0
Q 2 0
Q 3 0
Q 4 0
Time left
55 mins 35 mins 17 mins 1 mins
Improve
Improve
Maintain
Maintain
Get to yourtarget
Percentile
Maintain
YourPercentile 1 thru 10
11 thru 20
21 thru 30
31 thru 41
Spend no more than 20 minutes for first 10 questions
Recap – “Application of this Strategy”
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What made t1. Focused on
2. Improve Im
Maintain
But…I Can’t solve questIons In less t
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75’ 41 questions 1’ 50”75’ (skip 5 questions) 36 questions 2’ 08”
I Can t solve questIons In less t
You don’t need to! Yes, the following are true
• You can’t spend less than your
Takt time• Your Takt time may be > 2’ for some questions
Hence comes the concept of “SKIPPING”
Skip questions that are from your weak areas!
Smart “skipping” is the key!
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Section # of questions Upper Limit of Takt Time
SC 15 90
CR 14 150
RC 12 150
Total Time (sec) 5250
Total Time (min) 87.5
Time - 75' 12.5
# of ques to be skipped 5
Skipping strategy works hand in hand with the concept of “Takt Time” to capitali
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U d t d t th
Before Exam
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Maximizeyour scoringin Mocks
• Understand your strength
Weaknesses.
• Know your Takt Time
• Skip Questions if you are
running out of time.
• Spend approx. your Takt Ton your weakness.
In Exam
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Total “ProductiveTime
FOR YOUR MOCKS
What is Total Productive Time (TPT)?TPT = Total time spent on correct questions in a mock.
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Use Case: Applicant 1 with Mock score 35 Right
# of questions 23
Time spent 41:20
Avg. Time/question 1:47
• Clearly, this applicant tried to answer all questions correctly and did not try to improv
productive time
• As you will see in the spreadsheet; he was 8 minutes behind by the time he reached q• He had a 21 percentile drop from 98 (#21) to 78 (#41)
“Skipping” according to ones “Takt time” is vital
TPT (contd.)
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First 20 Questions
1. Overall Accuracy: 70% (14)
2. Total Time Spent: 42.14 minutes
3. Total Productive Time: 29.274. Avg. Time Spent/Question: 126 seconds
Next 21 Questions
1. Overall Accuracy: 43% (9)
2. Total Time Spent: 32.86 minutes
3. Total Productive Time: 11.43
4. Avg. Time Spent/Question: 94 seconds
▬ Average Time Correct: 126 Seconds
▬ Average Time Incorrect: 127 Seconds
▬ Average Time Correct: 78 Seconds
▬ Average Time Incorrect: 104 Seconds
Capitalize on your strengths!
Recap - Getting Ready for Mocks
G i R d
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Getting Ready
1. Leverage Scholaranium…
2. Measure your Takt Time and accuracy during the quizzes.
3. Try to replicate the same in the mock
While taking mocks
1. Measure ability in various sections/question types.
• Consistent with your ability quizzes
2. Use “Improve Improve Maintain Maintain” strategy
3. Total productive Time (+3 minutes for next mock)
4. Use your knowledge of section Takt Time while skipping a question.
Agenda
1 GMAT d Abilit
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1. GMAT and Ability
Why ability is the most
important metric on the GMAT?
2. Timing
Do you really have a Timing
Problem?
3. How to Prepare for Mocks
Do the Pre-Work to avoid
surprises in Mocks
4. In Mocks – Timing and Smart Ski
Strategies to ensure that you get the maximscore for a given ability?
5. Crafting your 30 day Plan
Putting everything together to move from 65
720+ in 30 days?
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define 30-day p
High Level PlanTotal score
Math
score V score
Math
correct
Verbl
correct Overall Score SC - Corr
CR-
Corr
RC 7/13 CR
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630 47 30 30 23RC 7/13 CR
8/12 SC 8/16 50 67
TodayTackle
quant
Tackle
SC
Tackle
RC
Tackle
CR
Goals
Q49/50
V 29-31
Q49/50
V 32-34
SC = 70%
Q49/50
V 33-35
RC = 70%
SC = 70%+
Q50/51
V 35-37
CR= 75%+
RC =70%+
SC =70%+
Mock
Test
Time to
MOck
4 days/10
hrs
8 days/30
hrs
8 days/30
hrs
5 days/15
hrs
How much time will it take me?
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Lose Weight
Build Muscle
Sample Plan
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Thursday Friday
D
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
(630, Q4
(RC 7/13
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9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 Notes:
T
Tackle SC
Prep
moc
prev
and
Mock test
Prep
moc
prev
and
Prepare for next
mock. Revise all
previous mocks
and all sections Mock test
CR CR CR CR
Prepare for next
mock. Revise all
previous mocks
and all sections
Break
RC (holiday) RC RC RC
Work on your Q
Weakness -
revise theory
Work on your Q
Weakness -
Work on your Q
Weakness -
Prepare for next
mock. Revise all
previous mocks
and all sections
Mock test
Revise mock,
notice the area
for improvement
SC SC SC SC
Mock test
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Putting it all togethe
Best Practices1. Ability first, timing next.
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2. If your ability is less than 70% in any section, then wofundamentals. Try out the corresponding e-GMAT cou
3. Have a 2/3 Question goal for improvement for each mo
4. Make sure that you tackle your weakest areas
5. Knowing your Takt Time can help you make judicious the mock.
6. Aim to improve your Total Productive Time with every
Two Goals – Score Improvement and Maximum Perfo
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1. Acing the GMAT is not Rocket Science.You can achieve Repeatable, Predictable
Score Improvement
2. Follow these strategieyour mocks and you act
to Achieve Maximum
Performance
Take e-GMAT Diagnostic
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1. Take e-GMAT diagnostic
2. Determine your ability
3. Review detailed Solutions