So You’re Taking the Gmat?
Standardized tests. Some do well. Some don’t. Some hate them. Some don’t mind them. You probably fit or have fit in the past in one of these categories. For me I don’t mind them, and I do okay. The time is what gets me most. When I am in a decision making process in general I take my time to think it out, this is hard to do on the GMAT. So I have some tips that I have learned that will help me for sure and I hope they help you.
First of all MBA.com has great tips and they definitely want you to succeed so they give you free software to download. But these are tips that can help even the least prepared to at least confront the test with some confidence.
MATH Section
Strategies:
Question types- there are only so many question types, figure out what they are asking first.
Be creative- use diagrams, boxes, simple things to make it easy on you.
Don’t do math- even though it is math. The GMAT tests problem solving skills not math skills. Its all simple algebra, geometry and basic math. If it seems too hard you’re doing it wrong, if it seems to simple, you’re doing it wrong.
Plug fake numbers- keep them simple and plug them in try using at least one even and one odd. try 2 and 5.
Plug answers- they give you a head start by giving you 5 choices of the correct answer use it
GRAMMAR Section
Here are some of the issues they test you one, the main skills you need are Recognition and Application:
1. Completeness
2. Subject/verb agreement
3. parallelism
4. Modifiers
5. Pronouns
6. Verb tense
7. Comparisons
For sentence correction:
1. Read and notice
2. Scan for differences
3. Start with the easiest Issue and Eliminate
4. Keep doing the above steps
5. If you have to guess…majority of the time it is the shortest and most condensed version. Also remember not every sentence needs corrected.
Stay tuned for more to come.
