Let’s make a post today on GMAT tutor resources and, as a result, we will offer several advices about all GMAT issues, focusing on advices about how to prepare for your exams. Work around the boredom: One of the biggest challenges for business school applicants is shifting gears to the verbal portion of the test. After all, many b-school applicants feel their strength lies in number crunching. In addition, the reading comprehension passages can be boring and laborious to get through, says Yim. “You are not reading to learn content – don’t obsess over details,” he adds. “Instead, focus on the author’s purpose and never forget your primary goal in reading comp, which is to earn points. Most questions will ask you to consider the author’s opinion and tone. This is the information you want to glean from the passage, through a variety of keywords. Don’t skim, but quickly determine if you need the information or not.”
Do not move on to the next lesson until you understand it well first: fix your basic knowledge well, deepen it and only then move on. If you skip the fundamental stages, you will be left with gaps that will put you in difficulty and you may not understand the following chapters too well. Prioritize tasks: eat healthy and rest every time, before you start learning. Determine what is the subject you want to develop in one day and the chapters you will focus on. Take it one at a time, do not mix the information until you are sure that you master very well each item, otherwise you risk becoming confused.
Read Carefully…Or Else The GMAT is constructed with incorrect answer choices that the test writers think you might like. If it’s a mistake a person might easily make on a problem, it’s probably an answer choice. If a question seems easy to you, STOP and reread the question. Make sure you haven’t fallen into a trap. Answer All the Questions—Even If You Have to Guess: Because there is a penalty for unanswered questions at the end of the GMAT, it makes sense to guess on any remaining questions rather than to leave them blank. If time is running out, you will almost certainly get a higher score by clicking through and answering any remaining questions at random. This is because the penalty for getting a question wrong diminishes sharply toward the end of each adaptive section (when the computer has already largely decided your score).
The one thing we ask of you: please test out your internet connection and video conferencing software BEFORE your first session. If you aren’t sure if the internet is fast enough, you can run a test at www.speedtest.net. If both the upload and download speeds are consistently higher than 1.5 mbps, you should be fine. The second drawback to online tutoring is that some of the “chemistry” of tutoring doesn’t really translate online, and we don’t want to pretend otherwise. Unless you’ve spent plenty of time on Skype already, it can feel unnatural to work with a teacher who is just a face on a screen. We’ve worked with hundreds of students online over the years, and we don’t think that the lack of in-person “chemistry” substantially limits our students’ GMAT score improvements, but we want to be honest about it: for some students, it just feels strange to handle GMAT or GRE tutoring solely via the internet. Find extra details on online GMAT Tutor.
Remember, your GMAT score goes down much more if you don’t finish a section than if you guess incorrectly on a handful of questions. So rather than investing three or more minutes on any one question, use process of elimination to make a strategic guess. And no matter what, move on after two to two and a half minutes. If you’re working on a practice test, be sure to go back and review the answer explanation for that question when you’re done. Was there a property or shortcut that you were supposed to use to solve the problem more efficiently? If you really were supposed to multiply all eleven of those numbers together on your scratchboard, then I’ll eat my shorts! Below are some GMAT tips and tricks for the different kinds of questions you’ll see on the Verbal section. These are just the key tips; for a longer, complementary list, head to our guide to tips and tricks for the Verbal section (coming soon).