GMAT Test 800 Score in 90 minutes: full test with techniques/explanations. All questions correct.
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Me taking a practice GMAT
Me taking a practice GMAT test for my students - never expected to actually be viewed by others so I want to add things to focus on to help learning from it. STRONGLY recommend anyone prepping reads below text wall.
1) Notice my focus on translating everything prior to even viewing it as a question or worrying about answering (insanely transformative approach that has defined my academic and exam success for 10 years) Reduces stress and anxiety too as the task of translating a new question is far less stressful than answering one! Takes time to learn but is truly THE trick that allowed me to do this and actually now has allowed a sub half-time 800 (sub 63 minutes total Q+V)
Really want to emphasise I'm not a ridiculous genius - I got crushed when I started prep at 18 for an exam called STEP. I'm able to do this now because I apply very algorithmic methods that anyone can learn to make exams easier. You may not want to spend years on a half-time 800 but these tactics got me 790 after a week (real) and 770 on my 'what's this exam?' practice test on day 1.
Some people may take longer than others but with the right techniques for test taking and preparation almost anyone preparing for the GMAT (given it's a pretty smart crowd!) can get 700+ in I'd say sub 200hrs. If you're not I'd urge you to consider your approach to exam taking and your learning methods prior to making any (likely wrong 😉) judgements about your own ability. Tutored a 480 to 750 (3 months prep to 480, 2 further months to 750)
2) With translation and practice notice some questions are FAST. It is not 2 minutes per question it is 10 seconds and 5+ minutes. Skip "no-hopers" asap but rushing ones you can do and getting it wrong means you aren't familiar enough with the material yet such that you're not getting enough sub 60 seconds questions. GMAT Q to me is 10 questions in 50 minutes, not 31 in 62 --- I know it may sound elitist but it isn't; algorithmic translation strategies make MANY questions fast freebies.
3) Your time prepping should be searching for (official) questions you get wrong then spending even an hour or two searching, learning and practicing a method that: YOU LIKE, generalisess, is fast and is easy! Doing questions you can do easily is largely pointless, other than perhaps mental maths, speed from familiarity, ingraining habits etc. That's fine but what if your habit is a bad one?
4) I'm largely happy with techniques here but it was only 2 months post starting so there are unfortunately many optimised methods now. Don't be married to your slow difficult approaches just because they seem to work -- search for better ones! If you're getting all your methods from one source and have never looked elsewhere you better be pretty sure they're an absolutely excellent source. Even in my future videos I will strongly encourage searching for other methods (and PLEASE let me know if you believe you've found a better one when they release!).
Go topic by topic. If a method is long & time consuming it's bad; I have no long methods left. Search for quick reliable methods you like and LEARN THEM. PRACTICE THEM. And I truly mean search. You'll feel like this makes prep go slowly and actually often takes a full day or more per topic. But when finished if done thoroughly and properly you'll do a mock and be somewhere in the 700s. Most people half learn and get stuck and start grinding up their score from 500-600: MUCH slower that way.
5) Specifically: prep should be ALL OFFICIAL, 'easy' questions on a topic until bulletproof, then medium, again until bulletproof and fast. Wouldn't bother with 'hard' (700-800) until you've finished all topics. Hard are 99% same material, same methods but more cross subject and just truly difficult. Some take me 5+ minutes still. Not good to learn methods really. All 500-600 and 600-700 correct + then half 700-800 hards right (will haplen automatically) = high 700s.
IMPORTANT: GMAT PUNISHES EASY WRONG WITH A GUNSHOT AND PUNISHES HARD WRONG WITH A TAP. Get dialled in full understanding for 100% in easy/med, done.
I've gotten a 50Q with NINE wrong and a 50Q with TWO wrong. The 9 wrong were all VERY hard, the 2 wrong were easy stupid mistakes.
fin. 🤣
Ads minimal poss without algorithm crushing me (no recommendations). Lack control now (ty Youtube! 🙄)
Hoping to be able to make new videos soon - I truly do want to, please trust that.
I answer any questions posted but, respectfully, do not post saying "You got this q wrong" - skip to the end you'll see my surprise when every answer is correct - such posts are both rude (imply I'm lying in title) and make you look stupid 🤣. Additionally a like and ty when answered lets me know I'm not wasting my time as otherwise I don't know if people come back to read my replies so will stop if majority continue not to 🤷♂️
Finally, if you found this or any video helpful genuinely please recommend it to anyone you know preparing for GMAT and maybe give it a like 🙂
1) Notice my focus on translating everything prior to even viewing it as a question or worrying about answering (insanely transformative approach that has defined my academic and exam success for 10 years) Reduces stress and anxiety too as the task of translating a new question is far less stressful than answering one! Takes time to learn but is truly THE trick that allowed me to do this and actually now has allowed a sub half-time 800 (sub 63 minutes total Q+V)
Really want to emphasise I'm not a ridiculous genius - I got crushed when I started prep at 18 for an exam called STEP. I'm able to do this now because I apply very algorithmic methods that anyone can learn to make exams easier. You may not want to spend years on a half-time 800 but these tactics got me 790 after a week (real) and 770 on my 'what's this exam?' practice test on day 1.
Some people may take longer than others but with the right techniques for test taking and preparation almost anyone preparing for the GMAT (given it's a pretty smart crowd!) can get 700+ in I'd say sub 200hrs. If you're not I'd urge you to consider your approach to exam taking and your learning methods prior to making any (likely wrong 😉) judgements about your own ability. Tutored a 480 to 750 (3 months prep to 480, 2 further months to 750)
2) With translation and practice notice some questions are FAST. It is not 2 minutes per question it is 10 seconds and 5+ minutes. Skip "no-hopers" asap but rushing ones you can do and getting it wrong means you aren't familiar enough with the material yet such that you're not getting enough sub 60 seconds questions. GMAT Q to me is 10 questions in 50 minutes, not 31 in 62 --- I know it may sound elitist but it isn't; algorithmic translation strategies make MANY questions fast freebies.
3) Your time prepping should be searching for (official) questions you get wrong then spending even an hour or two searching, learning and practicing a method that: YOU LIKE, generalisess, is fast and is easy! Doing questions you can do easily is largely pointless, other than perhaps mental maths, speed from familiarity, ingraining habits etc. That's fine but what if your habit is a bad one?
4) I'm largely happy with techniques here but it was only 2 months post starting so there are unfortunately many optimised methods now. Don't be married to your slow difficult approaches just because they seem to work -- search for better ones! If you're getting all your methods from one source and have never looked elsewhere you better be pretty sure they're an absolutely excellent source. Even in my future videos I will strongly encourage searching for other methods (and PLEASE let me know if you believe you've found a better one when they release!).
Go topic by topic. If a method is long & time consuming it's bad; I have no long methods left. Search for quick reliable methods you like and LEARN THEM. PRACTICE THEM. And I truly mean search. You'll feel like this makes prep go slowly and actually often takes a full day or more per topic. But when finished if done thoroughly and properly you'll do a mock and be somewhere in the 700s. Most people half learn and get stuck and start grinding up their score from 500-600: MUCH slower that way.
5) Specifically: prep should be ALL OFFICIAL, 'easy' questions on a topic until bulletproof, then medium, again until bulletproof and fast. Wouldn't bother with 'hard' (700-800) until you've finished all topics. Hard are 99% same material, same methods but more cross subject and just truly difficult. Some take me 5+ minutes still. Not good to learn methods really. All 500-600 and 600-700 correct + then half 700-800 hards right (will haplen automatically) = high 700s.
IMPORTANT: GMAT PUNISHES EASY WRONG WITH A GUNSHOT AND PUNISHES HARD WRONG WITH A TAP. Get dialled in full understanding for 100% in easy/med, done.
I've gotten a 50Q with NINE wrong and a 50Q with TWO wrong. The 9 wrong were all VERY hard, the 2 wrong were easy stupid mistakes.
fin. 🤣
Ads minimal poss without algorithm crushing me (no recommendations). Lack control now (ty Youtube! 🙄)
Hoping to be able to make new videos soon - I truly do want to, please trust that.
I answer any questions posted but, respectfully, do not post saying "You got this q wrong" - skip to the end you'll see my surprise when every answer is correct - such posts are both rude (imply I'm lying in title) and make you look stupid 🤣. Additionally a like and ty when answered lets me know I'm not wasting my time as otherwise I don't know if people come back to read my replies so will stop if majority continue not to 🤷♂️
Finally, if you found this or any video helpful genuinely please recommend it to anyone you know preparing for GMAT and maybe give it a like 🙂
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