The Princeton Review book specifies some test-taking tips, such as:
- POE (Process of Elimination) - allows you to eliminate answer choices even when you dont know how to do a problem.
- "Joe Bloggs" answers - these are the answers which would appeal to the "average Joe Bloggs" test taker. Joe is attracted to easy solutions that he can arrive at in 1 step and answers that repeat numbers from the problem.
- For easy (1 step) questions, the Joe Bloggs answer will almost always be correct.
- For medium (2 step) questions, the Joe Bloggs answer will be right 50% of the time.
- For hard (3 step) questions, the Joe Bloggs answer will always be wrong.
Summary of Day 1:
- Completed what I set out to do at the start of the day: Arithmetic, Algebra, Applied Arithmetic sections of the Princeton Review "Cracking the GMAT" book.
Insights/thoughts from Day 1:
- I can see how the "plugging-in" method will be helpful ... also helps verify if some of the answers are in fact correct ... I am wary of relying on this too much ... especially under the strict time conditions of the real GMAT exam.
- Need to become better at figuring out what math to use when solving problems. This should come with practice.
- Also need to become better using algebra to solve problems, as opposed to becoming too reliant on the plugging-in method
- Need to focus on the getting through the content in the PR book, and not get distracted by browsing through the GMAT online forums etc, and other books. I will be doing plenty of that later. This week, my objective is to complete the Cracking the GMAT book, and have my first PR CAT practice test.
Today has been a good review of some of the basic fundamental math which I havent touched since school !
Tomorrow, I plan to do a quick review of the main topics covered today, and then jump into Geometry and Data Sufficiency sections of the PR book.
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