Nick – Currently studying in UCLA
GMAT:740
GMAT from 650 to 740 – how to improve nearly 100 points in the short term
Hello, HELLO. I'm NICK, a student of ZEYU GMAT PLUS
I first met Mr. Zeyu when he came to our university to give a lecture. His thoughts on risk and life shared in the lecture deeply captured my heart. It was totally different from other bull shit lectures I had heard before. It could be said that it was the best sharing I had heard in the four years of college. So I decided to sign up for his GMAT PLUS course at the end of the lecture. What I valued was the part of PLUS - the teacher's thought, something that could benefit me for life, not just the GMAT training course.
After the class started, I found that the teacher also taught GMAT very well, which was an unexpected gain for me to sign up for this course. I have seen some videos of other training institutions, such as a manager and a new online course, but their solution methods are either a little bullshit, or the classification is too complicated to confuse you every minute (in fact, people have no time to respond to classification in the GMAT examination room). In contrast, Mr. Ze Yu's way of solving problems is very simple and logical. The teacher agrees with the principle of simplicity, so the method can be applied to any problem without complicated classification. In addition, other institutions like to teach students some tricks in exams (such as summing up the characteristics of correct answers, not understanding the reasons, and directly selecting similar options as the answers), but in fact, the methods of tricks are often wrong. But what Mr. Zeyu teaches is the most essential and core thing, so that students can understand what the logical relationship of the topic is, and our logical thinking ability can be really improved. This ability can not only help us to achieve good results in the GMAT exam, but also help us to solve problems in real life. This is the true value of PLUS, far beyond the value of the GMAT exam itself. However, it may also be because the teacher taught me so well that I felt a little confident after class. I forgot the teacher's warning and ignored the review process. As a result, the results of GMAT World War I were really terrible. Today I also want to share with you some mistakes I have made. I hope you will avoid detours.
I had to catch up with the review process of the two exams. The first one was only 7 days (made by myself for severe procrastination), and the second one was originally 15 days, but I got gastroenteritis and miscalculated the difficulty of my graduation thesis. Finally, I only had 5 days to review. What made it worse was that in World War II, due to lack of sleep, the examination room was very collapsed, and I felt that I could not see the questions. This was the rhythm of kneeling every minute. But I was shocked by the result, which was 90 points higher than the first time!
(The left is the result of the first battle, and the right is the result of the second battle)
Driven by curiosity, I bought the official Enhanced Score Report to see why my grades were so poor, and then I shed tears when I knew the truth. PS: The Report is really easy to use and inexpensive ($24.95 each). Students who want to analyze their weaknesses can consider it.
1. Syntax
During World War I, I felt that I was much better than during World War II, because I felt that the logic (CR) of World War I was very clear, and then I read three machine classics (later I learned that this was one of the reasons why I was killed in World War I). The only uncertainty was grammar. In the first world war, I basically gave up grammar, because the review time was too tight and only one day was left to sort out and review grammar knowledge points. My mind was a mess, and I could not analyze it in the examination room. I had to rely on feeling to get the right sentence. When I was doing Prep before, I could get half of it by virtue of some grammar knowledge and language sense. It would be OK if I could get half of it by thinking about the exam. The fact proves that I am still naive....
(The left is the result of the first battle, and the right is the result of the second battle)
My CR score in World War I was higher than 98% of all recorded scores. I really have to say that Mr. Ze Yu taught logic well, but 28% of grammar directly scrapped my World War I verb. Visually, my grammar is only 1/4 correct, which is really embarrassing. So you really need to practice your basic skills. Don't trust your feelings. If you are not allowed, you will be killed every minute. There were only five days to review the World War II. In order to stop relying on the feeling of Mongolian, I spent three full days sorting out the teacher's notes and doing grammar exercises, and finally my grammar score changed from 28% to 81%. On the first day, I only reviewed knowledge points and did exercises sporadically, and the results were very poor. So on the second day, I referred to Ron's exercise methods shared by others on the CD, and extracted grammar knowledge points piece by piece for everyone to learn from.
The specific steps are as follows:
(1) First, I will review some major knowledge points taught by Ze Yu in class, such as the use of V-ing;
(2) Find 100-200 original OG questions and write the answers next to the questions;
(3) Do the questions quickly, and only judge whether the V-ing usage of the option is right or wrong, and skip the questions or options unrelated to V-ing directly;
(4) After judging, check the answers on the side of the question. If there is a misjudgment, analyze the reason for the mistake (correct the grammatical knowledge points you understand incorrectly). If there is no misjudgment, proceed to the next question;
(5) Review the next major category of knowledge points and repeat the process (1) - (4);
(6) After practicing all the knowledge points you know, look at the 100-200 questions that you did not do or could not judge, and you can clearly understand which part of your grammar knowledge you have not mastered.
I later found 20 new questions to do as the exam did, and found that this method had a significant effect in improving "eyesight". I became particularly sensitive to those structures that I investigated grammar (such as V-ed, V-ing, pronouns and parallel structures). I can now find where the grammatical structures that I couldn't find for a long time can be found by scanning. In addition, I can remember grammar knowledge more deeply and completely. In the past, misjudgments often occurred due to incomplete or wrong memory in sporadic exercises. Now, after the training, misjudgments no longer occur.
2. Machine experience
The second thing that I regret is the use of machine scriptures. Teacher Ze Yu has always warned us that we can't rely on the trick thing like machine experience. Only by really improving our ability can we be invincible in the GMAT exam. Instead of trusting others' answers, you should trust your own answers after improving your ability. I didn't listen to these words, so I was directly hit by the GMAT results of World War I.
In World War I, I was in the library, and there were quite a lot of machine classics, so I took them as a lifeline. I spent one day in seven days to read the machine classics, logic and composition (the fact is that I only scored one question in logic, and forgot all the compositions when I arrived at the examination room, but I didn't do much about the mathematics I should have seen). At that time, there were 4 articles to read in the exam, and the first 3 articles were all in the machine book, which I read very carefully. At that time, I was very happy. Although I read the article once, I was so excited that I couldn't see anything. The questions and answers were all on the machine. Basically, I could select them according to my memory after reading them, without thinking. As a result, the total score of Verbal was so low that day (30 points), I began to wonder if I had made a mistake while reading the book of opportunity. There are many controversial answers in that computer book. I recited the answers of people with high scores or selected more answers, but maybe that is actually wrong. I was really dumbfounded when I saw the report later. Only 60% of the readers read it. My guess may be true. The accuracy rate of my last 9 questions (the reading I did was in these 9 questions) is 88% (1 wrong question in 9 questions), which means that the reading I did was at most 1 wrong question, and maybe even right. The reading mistakes were all in the 3 pieces of the book of chance, which really made me want to cry
Then the second world war was not very lucky. It was the third day after the change of the warehouse. There were only two days of warehouse. Only one of the four reading machine classics was hit, which is still a broken one. I only remember one answer, but the result of the second reading is 88%. So I really advise you to look at the experience and cherish it, recite less answers and try to do your best.
3. Test speed
In the Verbal part of the two exams, the first time I got stuck in grammar, and then I won three readings, so even though I deliberately slowed down, there were still a few minutes left. Without these, the second GMAT exam will become a rush to do everything. I only had 12 minutes to look at the last ten questions, and finally I returned the last ten questions to read. At that time, I almost collapsed. After reading that article, I basically gave up the treatment. There were 6 questions to be done in 3 minutes. It was unbelievable that I had to choose the answer when I couldn't finish reading all the questions... After reading the World War II Report, I found that the last 10 questions were really sad, and there were 6 mistakes in 10 questions. However, I also found the particularity of the GMAT examination system. Comparing the report of World War I and World War II, you will find that there must be some strategies for time allocation during the examination.
(The accuracy and difficulty of each question in World War I 10)
(Accuracy and difficulty of each 10 questions in World War II)
It can be found that in World War I, I failed to enter the high score database after two mistakes in the first 10 questions, and failed to do well in the next 20 questions. Therefore, even if I only made one mistake in the last 10 questions, I was still positioned at the low level. In the second world war, I only made one mistake in the first 10 questions and entered the middle and high difficulty question bank. The next 20 questions still had a relatively high accuracy rate. So even if I made six mistakes in the last 10 questions, I was still positioned in the high score bank. So I really prefer to do a better job in the front to enter the high score library, otherwise it will be difficult to turn over after entering the low segment.
Let's talk about the math that hurts me most. During World War I, I didn't review mathematics. I only practiced during the prep, and then I did 30 questions on the machine, which led me to kneel directly during the exam. The math difficulty of the exam was too different from the prep. I was stuck with many question cards for a long time. The most important thing was that I didn't know many math words. I was so confused on the spot that I could only guess the meaning there, but often couldn't guess. Time was extremely tight. I couldn't work out many questions after the timeout, so I had to guess an answer reluctantly. I only reluctantly handed in the paper a few seconds before the end of the math part. As a result, there were only 49 math students in World War I, which made me lose face of Chinese examinees. Later, I saw someone on the CD said that math became difficult this year, and many people felt better when they were 48 or 49... So I practiced math in World War II, closed the time display during the exam, and then hurried to do it, When I finished the last question, I clicked on the timer and found that there was nearly half an hour left. The result of World War II is only 50. I found that the wrong question was still a simple one. I suddenly regretted that I didn't check it slowly.
(Red is wrong part)
So I advise my friends who haven't taken the exam to practice math. There are still pitfalls in the exam. Do it slowly, don't be too fast. If you are wrong with a simple question, you will lose.
So much to share today~The most important thing is the arrangement of review time. Don't be as foolish as me to think that sudden review can also produce results. GMAT is really an exam that takes time to prepare! In addition, students who want to take the GMAT exam can register for the 3-hour free trial course of GMAT PLUS. The effect of the 3-hour trial course is better than that of your own review for 2 or 3 days.
Frank – Currently working in Deloitte
GMAT:730(admitted by Kellogg MBA)
First acquaintance
Learning gmat with boss originated from the initial audition class. In class, I was deeply shocked by his logical reading method, and fully realized that my previous routine of review was full of loopholes, which was not enough for me to pass the 750 exam. I became one of Zeyu's first batch of students with the goal of getting 750 on a solid logical basis.
Classroom gains
GMAT plus emphasizes solving problems with powerful logical thinking, which I deeply understand. What impressed me most was Ze Yu's explanation of critical reasoning, AWA and reading. In the critical reasoning part, topics are divided into the types of cause to effect, cause to effect, etc. For each type of topic, Ze Yu will have a clear analysis of the logic of the topic in terms of the requirements of the topic (weak or support), so that we can more clearly make a logical reasoning problem that truly examines a topic, rather than relying on feeling. In addition, the logic ideas learned here are also applicable to AWA and reading. After learning the previous logic, the AWA part is actually a simple problem of analyzing logic loopholes. With the help of the flexible template provided by Zeyu, 5.5 points is not difficult. Reading is an extremely comprehensive logical analysis question. The logic tree introduced by Ze Yu here will be very helpful for solving long articles.
practice
After the third week of GMAT plus, I ushered in the battle of gmat after class. The final result is a total score of 700 points. IR8 Quantitative 51 Verbal 31。 The exam taught me a great lesson.
First of all, on the basis of absorbing the classroom content, a large number of real problem training and simulation training are necessary, especially the part of Verbal. During the preparation for World War I, I didn't have a systematic training on real questions due to my hasty registration. The direct result is that part of the rhythm of the Verbal is disrupted and the whole exam is fast and slow, which is very chaotic. I believe that after a lot of training, the rhythm will not be confused by individual problems.
Secondly, it is better to review gmat wholeheartedly. In the two weeks between classes and exams, I not only need to review gmat, but also prepare for job interviews and various chores, which makes me totally unable to focus, and the effect of doing questions is also greatly reduced.