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Originally Posted by shona
Hi to all. i m a new member in this forum. just started prep. pls guide me how shud i start my prepare to get good score.  |
Hi Shona,
I'm jotting down a few tips that I feel have helped me to improve my GMAT practice test scores :
1. If you are giving the GMAT within the next two months and don't time have the time to go through too many books, the ones that I would recommend are :
a. Princeton Review
Use Princeton Review to start your preparation with as it has some excellent techniques and helpful tips for both Quantitative and Verbal sections. Data Sufficiency is one area which used to completely baffle me initially but using
PR's strategies really helped me get a grip on DS.It also explains the different errors in
Sentence Correction in great detail.
b. Official Guide
This is a must have because it is closest to the actual test questions, and gauge your fundamental understanding of the topic. Also, it has tons of practice questions given in increasing order of difficulty and their answer explanations are brief but easy to understand.
c. GMAT Advantage by Professor Dave
I found a lot of the quantitative material in GMAT Advantage closer to some of the tougher
OG questions. The explanations are well written and each question has been graded as easy, medium or difficult. The friendly tone makes the book seem an easy read but it has some really challenging material lurking underneath. In fact, that's another reason why I would suggest starting with
PR and then graduating to GMAT Advantage.
After a few days of untimed practice on each section, start pacing yourself to improve timing. Another important aspect is to be able to withstand fatigue caused by applying yourself to solving problems at the required pace continously for three and half hours. To achieve this, once you are reasonably comfortable with all the sections,try to give as many full fledged practice tests as possible.