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7 Common mistakes to avoid on the
GMAT

2. WIIIFM
Introduction - GMAT Verbal
Common Mistakes and how to avoid them
Assuming over facts
Mastering Reading Comprehension
Time and Stress management

3. GMAT Format & Timings
GMAT Test Section # of Questions Question Types Duration
Analytical Writing
Assessment
1 Topic Analysis of an Argument 30 Minutes
Integrated
Reasoning
12 Questions Multi-Source Reasoning
Graphics Interpretation
Two-Part Analysis
Table Analysis
30 Minutes
Quantitative 31 Questions Data Sufficiency
Problem Solving
62 Minutes
Verbal 36 Questions 1) Reading
Comprehension
2) Critical Reasoning
3) Sentence Correction
65 Minutes
Total Exam Time,
not including
breaks or tutorials
3 hours 7 minutes

4. Practice OFFLINE
Test ONLINE
Books and content offline
Preference Pen over Mouse
Referring content from many places
No or less use of GMAT Wiley

5. Three options will be available for your exam's section order:
1)Analytical Writing Assessment, Integrated Reasoning,
Quantitative, Verbal (original order)
2)Verbal, Quantitative, Integrated Reasoning, Analytical Writing
Assessment
3)Quantitative, Verbal, Integrated Reasoning, Analytical Writing
Assessment
Selecting section options
on GMAT

6. Reviewing only
INCORRECT responses
It’s a great way to give yourself different layers
of context
How did I get correct
answer?
May be I
guessed
correctly
May be
what I
thought
was right
How
can I
improve
on
time?

7. Focusing on Quantity
over Quality
At the time of Practice On Real Test

8. Pacing

9. Pacing

10. Evasion of
Process Of Elimination
Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet
than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his
success.
(A) Although she was considered among her contemporaries to be the better poet
than her husband, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning was overshadowed by his
success.
(B) Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning was considered among her contemporaries
as a better poet than her husband, she was later overshadowed by his success.
(C) Later overshadowed by the success of her husband, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's poetry had been considered among her contemporaries to be better than
that of her husband.
(D) Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning's success was later overshadowed by that
of her husband, among her contemporaries she was considered the better poet.
(E) Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry was considered among her contemporaries
as better than her husband, but her success was later overshadowed by his.

11. Assuming over Facts
VERBAL
Use in RCs
QUANT
Use Data
sufficiency
“No” is distinct from “Not
Sufficient”
look information in the
passage only, no
assumption

12. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20
(1)x is the smallest odd prime number

13. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒

14. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒
YES

15. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒
YES
Sufficient

16. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒
YES
Sufficient
(2) x is the smallest odd prime number

17. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒
YES
Sufficient
(2) x is the smallest odd prime number
⇒ x = 3

18. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒
YES
Sufficient
(2) x is the smallest odd prime number
⇒ x = 3
NO

19. DATA SUFFICIENCY
Is x > 10?
(1)2x > 20 x > 10⇒
YES
Sufficient
(2) x is the smallest odd prime number
⇒ x = 3
NO
Sufficient

20. Mastering RC
• Look for Transition Words
• Clue words
• Pronouns
• Comparison Words

21. GMAT - Verbal
More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily destroy only unwanted
species, biocontrol agents (such as insects, fungi, and viruses) eat, infect, or parasitize
targeted plant or animal pests. However, biocontrol agents can negatively affect non-target
species by, for example, competing with them for resources: a biocontrol agent might
reduce the benefits conferred by a desirable animal species by consuming a plant on which
the animal prefers to lay its eggs.
Another example of indirect negative consequences occurred in England when a virus
introduced to control rabbits reduced the amount of open ground (because large rabbit
populations reduce the ground cover), in turn reducing underground ant nests and
triggering the extinction of a blue butterfly that had depended on the nests to shelter its
offspring. The paucity of known extinctions or disruptions resulting from indirect interactions
may reflect not the infrequency of such mishaps but rather the failure to look for or to detect
them: most organisms likely to be adversely affected by indirect interactions are of little or
no known commercial value and the events linking a biocontrol agent with an adverse
effect are often unclear.
Moreover, determining the potential risks of biocontrol agents before they are used is
difficult, specially when a nonnative agent is introduced, because, unlike a chemical
pesticide, a biocontrol agent may adapt in unpredictable ways so that it can feed on or
otherwise harm new hosts.

22. 1. The passage is primarily concerned with
A. explaining why until recently scientists failed to recognize the risks
presented by biocontrol agents.
B. emphasizing that biocontrol agents and chemical pesticides have more
similarities than differences.
C. suggesting that only certain biocontrol agents should be used to control
plant or animal pests.
D. arguing that biocontrol agents involve risks, some of which may not be
readily discerned.
E. suggesting that mishaps involving biocontrol agents are relatively
commonplace.
Questions

23. Time and Stress Management
• Balanced Nutrition
• Regular Exercise
• Meditation
• Listen to good Music
• Breathing techniques
• Socialize
• Positive reinforcement
techniques
• Plan a celebration

24. Summary
Introduction - GMAT Verbal
Common Mistakes and how to avoid them:
Practice through Pen and Paper
Random Section order selection
Reviewing only wrong questions
Focusing on quantity over quality
Skipping steps
Evasion of POE
Assuming over facts
Mastering Reading Comprehension
Time and Stress management

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