RON 对GMAT 复习的解析

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看到 RON 回答童鞋们的问题，觉得特别好，放上来也方便自己以后查阅。以后有更好的会继续贴

原PO: I am restarting from tommorrow and have decided to do 20 Problem Solving, 20 DS, 20 SC, 20 CR and 20 RC daily. I will go back to the OG as it has been a while since I touched it.
Sat for test and Sun for review.

To all the experts out there, please advise how I should use my time daily and what books to work from. I also intened to work through the Verbal and qUANT og SUPPLEMENTS.


RON:
100 problems a day?
*five* days of just doing problems for every *one* day of review?
this is not good... not good at all.

if you're studying properly, you should be spending substantially MORE time on review than on doing problems. if you can do even close to 100 problems per day, that indicates that you're just doing problem after problem after problem after problem after problem, and not spending nearly enough (if any) time reviewing.

here's what you should be able to do:

for EVERY quant problem:
* don't concentrate on the solution to that actual problem, since you can be sure you aren't going to see that actual problem on the exam
* instead, try to find TAKEAWAYS from the problem, which you can then APPLY TO OTHER PROBLEMS. this is key - DO NOT LEAVE A PROBLEM until you have extracted at least one piece of information, whether a formula, a strategy, a trick/trap, etc., that you can apply to OTHER problems.
do not leave a problem until you can fill in the following sentence, meaningfully and nontrivially:
"if i see _____ ON ANOTHER PROBLEM, i should _____"
* notice the SIGNALS in the problem that dictate which strategy to use. if you miss the problem, then notice the strategy that's used in the book's solution (not always the best solution, in the case of the o.g., but better than nothing), and go back to see if there are any signals 'telling' you to use that strategy.

for EVERY verbal problem:
* you should be able to give SPECIFIC reasons why EVERY wrong answer is wrong, and why EVERY right answer is right. ("i just know that it's wrong/right" is NEVER acceptable -- you need to think carefully about the problem until you have discerned a specific reason.)
* you should GENERALIZE these lessons in ways that could conceivably apply to future problems (e.g., "on this problem type, any answer choice more general than the passage = wrong").

for EVERY SC problem, in addition to the above:
* you should be able to go through the CORRECT sentence -- including the non-underlined part -- and justify EVERY construction in that sentence.
e.g.
-- if there's a modifier, you should be able to explain exactly what it modifies, and exactly why that modification makes sense.
-- if there's a pronoun, you should be able to explain exactly what it stands for, and exactly why that makes sense.
-- if there's a verb, you should be able to find its subject. you should also be able to justify the tense in which the verb is used, and/or the tense sequence of multiple verbs.
-- you should be able to explain the exact meaning of the sentence.
-- if there are parallel structures, you should be able to explain (a) the grammatical parallelism AND (b) the parallelism in meaning.
etc.

if you're doing these things, there's no way you'll be able to get through even half that number of problems.

quantity ≠ quality.

Quote:
Another point to note is that if I practice SC today then tomm. I perform well in SC and bad in other areas of Verbal. If I practice CR today then RC and SC will inevitable fall.
this doesn't seem reasonable; if this is really happening, then the result is 100% due to psychological factors -- i.e., you're telling yourself you're going to do worse at topic X, so, surprise!, you do worse at topic X.

barring things like brain lesions or memory disorders, the kinds of skills that are necessary for this exam can't reasonably be forgotten in less than a month or two.

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also, DO NOT STUDY FOR SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
do not do it.
you need at least 1 day OFF per week.
you also need at least 1.5-2 hours of FREE TIME each day.
if you don't have these rest periods, your brain will not make lateral connections, as i've mentioned in some previous posts.

------RON 的建议，大家共勉

Feelun

只在梦里 发表于 2015-11-27 22:51
请不要过度学习，BY-RON

DO NOT OVER-STUDY!

看一下！               

Feelun

只在梦里 发表于 2015-11-29 08:51
做练习一定要计时-BY RON

when a student reports huge discrepancies between practice results and test ...

Mark一下！               

Feelun

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叶豆腐腐子

这绝对是个非常棒的帖子，我也是准备考gmat的在职党一枚。gmat考了三次没一次上了600。后来才发现是自己方法错了，绕了一大圈弯路，准备明年再战冲700.今年才知道RON神的存在和Manhattan。还有一点就是个人的语言基础对考试尤其是阅读很重要的。当习惯背了经济学人后，就会发现思路就是那样的。if you are having trouble with reading comprehension because you are not sufficiently proficient in english -- as opposed to having trouble with the questions themselves -- then STOP studying for the gmat, at least for a few months, and get better at reading and understanding professionally written english first!还有就是计时做题非常重要！每道题都要计时做。

爱哭的santa

只在梦里 发表于 2015-11-29 08:09
看了几个RON 对大家回复的帖子。感觉他说的主旨就是不要过度学习，让自己过度劳累。GMAT 并不是题海战术 ...

我没有过度学习啊 因为上班每天只能学3个小时不到，只做过OG16和PREP08，其他都没。我当时看完Bible做了PERP 2008 第一部分，觉得脑子特别灵，读文的时候哪些地方可以略过，哪些地方存在什么问题，感觉很清晰，看完题目很快能选出答案。
后来我中断了两天复习了点别的，再回来做PERP 2008第二部分，两夜之间就完全失去做第一部分的感觉了，有的读文的时候读了两遍都不知道在讲什么。所以目前正打算开始练习写逻辑链。也不知道复习方向对不对。

只在梦里

做练习一定要计时-BY RON

when a student reports huge discrepancies between practice results and test results, those discrepancies are almost always the result of poor time management.

i've noticed that you only mentioned TIME MANAGEMENT one little bitty time in this post, and then only as an afterthought ('...GMAT time'). this smells like the classic case in which you just do tons and tons and tons of practice problems at home, without worrying about time, and then go in and get slammed because you aren't used to the draconian time limits imposed by the exam.

DO NOT EVER do ANY practice problems, of ANY type, without a timer. there is an enormous difference between solving problems and solving problems in 2 minutes apiece; any studying that reinforces the former of these is just plain bad.

it appears that you have a very strong work ethic, which is great. take that work ethic and do a bunch of practice problems from og11 and the like, WITH A TIMER. try giving yourself LESS than the normal allotment of time, and see how that goes.

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at this point you need to concentrate about 90% on time management, and 10% on EVERYTHING else. this test is primarily a test not of answering problems correctly, but of answering problems correctly under severe time limitations. you have admitted yourself, in this very post, that you 'suck at' time management - which is as important as, if not MORE important than, content (especially with 6 weeks remaining until test day).

learn the basic time management guidelines:
2 minutes average per math problem
1:00-1:15 average per sentence correction problem
2:00-2:30 per critical reasoning problem
3-5 minutes per reading comprehension passage, and then 1:00 max per problem (less on 'big picture'/'main idea' problems)

you need to start sticking to these guidelines on ALL practice that you EVER do, whether that be practice tests, homework, individual problems out of the OG, etc.

doing anything untimed, beyond simply getting used to the very basics of the test, is a very bad idea: you may unintentionally reinforce strategies and concepts that simply don't work within the time guidelines. time management uber alles!

here are a couple of strategies to get started.
(1) internalize the stopwatch: you need to learn what one minute feels like, instinctively, without ever looking at a watch. you should be able to call out one minute with good accuracy while you are working on practice problems. once you can do this, you'll be able to implement the following rule effectively:
(2) if you don't have a rule for solving a problem by halfway through the time, start the guessing process. this means that if you don't have a CLEAR idea how to solve a math problem by 1 minute, you should start guessing or using process of elimination. if you don't see the key to a sentence correction problem by 30 seconds or so, start examining random splits between the answer choices and eliminating some choices. if you don't see the key to a critical reasoning problem by 1:00-1:15, start going through the answers and doing process of elimination.
(3) do not deliberate. for many business-minded individuals, this is the hardest part to swallow: you CANNOT deliberate, on ANYTHING, in the time allowed by the test. you must make FAST DECISIONS about both strategy and content. this goes back to step (2) above: if a method doesn't work, abandon it immediately. also, NEVER sit there and try to think about whether a method will work; if you think it might work, just dive in. if it's not practicable, you'll find out in a hurry, and you can then switch over to guessing mode.

as you can see, time management is not simply a matter of learning to look at a stopwatch: it's a fundamental shift in your outlook toward the test. you need to pound these habits into your head, as difficult as that might be.

i will post more on the other topics if time permits, but be aware that time management is your Number 1 concern. at this point, everything else is completely secondary.

只在梦里

今天没有学习，看电视。感觉RON 说的有道理，试试看。以前每天学GMAT，前几天做了套模考，紧接其后的两天实在太累就没来及review那些题。过两天后再看，有几道之前做错的题发现自己很神奇的做对了（做题时没有来及看答案，因为过了2天已经有点忘了，所以把错题重新一边做一边看解答）。所以不解的看了之前做错的选项，很疑惑自己为啥当时那么stupid的选那个选项。之后就看到了RON的帖子，"不要过度学习“。
大家也可以试试，给自己放松一天回头再看是不是效果好很多。