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GMAT Tip: 7 Steps to a Better Score
The GMAT Tip of the Week is a weekly column that includes advice
on taking the Graduate Management Admission Test, which is
required for admission to most business schools. Every week an
instructor from a top test-prep company will share suggestions for
improving your GMAT score. This week’s tip comes from Tracy Yun,
founder and chief executive officer of Manhattan Elite Prep.

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The GMAT is not a math and English test. Rather, it is a test of pattern
recognition and analytical reasoning. We recommend the following process in
studying for this rigorous test:
1. Exercise rigorous time discipline. Divide the test into quadrants and check
progress or modify speed at the 20 minute/10 question, 40 minute/20 question,
and 60 minute/30 question points.
2. Study regularly and consistently by adhering to a plan. Do not plunge into
practice. Instead, formulate a plan in advance of the formal preparation. Analyze
your own current strengths and weaknesses. Do not rush through as many books
or practice questions as possible without ever pausing to think and understand
them.
3. Spend about 30 minutes going over questions and solutions analysis for every
hour of practice by carefully comparing the wrong answers against the right ones.
4. When you find yourself making the same type of mistake over and over again,
copy the particular question-and-answer choices and aggregate them together
for additional review before the real test.
5. Redo the challenging problems after being away from them for a few days or a
week to see if you have gained speed or a different approach. This also helps
you build your self-confidence to reach a 700-plus score.
6. During the first two initial practice tests, don’t watch the clock. Dial down the
pressure as you begin studying by not timing yourself at first. By the time you are
ready to watch the clock, you should have taken enough practice tests to know
how long 75 minutes feels like. Check the time occasionally, but you should have
practiced enough to develop a good internal rhythm for completing each section.

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7. Train your reasoning ability when not prepping for the test. To succeed in the
GMAT, you are required to answer questions with a large amount of information
in a short amount of time. While preparing for the GMAT, students should strive
to train their speed-reading and speed-reasoning skills to improve their ability to
identify logics and trends interwoven in all facets of their lives, whether it is
reading a book or article, watching TV, or speaking with friends, family, and
colleagues. Doing so outside formal “prep time” will automatically prepare
students in a specialized and highly critical way of thinking that will enhance their
test-taking performance.
Tracy Yun, who scored in the 99th percentile on the GMAT, is the co-author of
Turbocharge Your GMAT and the founder and CEO of Manhattan Elite Prep. Yun
is a Columbia Business School grad and is pursuing her passion for education
after having spent years in investment banking as a mergers and acquisitions
specialist, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategic investments.
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