Ways to Solve

Ways to Solve

You’ve finished your first module! Nice work. (Or maybe you’re skipping around; that’s fine, too.)

Now that you’ve gotten your feet wet, as the saying goes, we will get a bit more strategic in this module. It’s not necessary to discuss strategy at great length in order to improve. The key to improvement is that you are completely engaged in every question that you do, and that take away lessons from all of those questions, both the ones you get right and the ones you get wrong.

I’ve taught thousands of GMAT test takers, so, as you can imagine, I’ve seen people improve their scores by hundreds of points and not at all. The people who win completely own the process. They act like they wrote the test, like they are starting a company and their job is to take the test, like they are going to become GMAT teachers just after they take the test. As you can imagine, those people treat every practice question with extreme care. It’s no wonder that their performance improves. On the other end of the spectrum are people who go and sit in a class and hope that the relatively passive experience will rub off in a few points. Sometimes it does, but when it doesn’t, it’s not exactly a surprise. The point of this little speech is that, in order to help you be in the former category, and own your test experience, this course focuses on active practice.

So, let’s practice some more… But in this module, aside from doing each question and learning from it, ask yourself these questions along the way:

  • How did I try to solve this question?
  • Was there a better way to solve this question?
  • Overall, what are the different ways of solving these questions? Are the ways to solve all similar? Are some very different?

Have fun! See you when you’re done.

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