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妹子在论坛里了。还PM我了。
为了不伤妹子的心,我代表广大群众,以友好礼貌的方式,提供了些可操作的建议,也回了下这个帮助的不可操作性。
Hi,
I did see the post your friend posted and it was actually the one drew my attention. Since your friend has been in this forum, why don't you ask him to help in preparing Q? As he can read Chinese perfectly. (I guess) I'm afraid there wouldn't be any hope to translate those into English. As most of the people here only exchange ideas or experiences in Chinese. Some of them can't even be easily translated into English, if it is convenient, people would just share it in English, wouldn't they? To be honest, it is too time-consuming without any significance and no one except your own friends will translate it into English, providing everyone is very busy in getting the applications done, retaking GMAT, as well as making commitments to their families and work.
However, if you are a native speaker, I assume you've had the advantage to nail Quant, not even mention Verbal. As actually for most of the Chinese, the questions themselves are not difficult, but that reading of the questions in English is the challenge for us in a limited time in the exam. I will suggest that you buy more Prep Exams from GMAC, the official website, as those questions represent the similar level of the real exam.
Here are two personal tips from me:
1. Divide those questions into different groups of types in your way, I mean the methods or procedures of tackling similar problems that you can easily remember in your way. You need to understand how the exam tests you, rather than start remembering a vast of math knowledge. Then you may know your weakness in certain type of questions and you will also get used to the exam, especially the knowledge that GMAT tests the most. For example, yes, they will test you arithmetic, but to be more specific, they may only have some favourites in ''how to judge whether a number is a prime number'', in this case, you will only need to remember how to tackle this one particular issue: they are always odd numbers; they only have 2 factors 1 & itself; a prime number and the numbers consecutively next to it, will only have 1 common factor etc, etc. When you are tested for a question about a prime number, then you need to quickly identify, which is your main point among those 3 features above. So how you can find relative features about one issue of knowledge? A quick way is to google it and especially explore more in GMAT club (an oversea forum), type something like: prime number GMAT, or search the question at hand to see how they others quickly tackle the question and so on, In this way, you are working on how to be an expert of tackling GMAT Quant questions, rather than to be an expert of math. If you have a weak background in Math knowledge, you may just start reading the other's method of tackling a question first rather than doing it by yourself to make up your shortage in certain knowledge. So in short, you need to know the shortcut of solving a question.
2. Second tip, since you know your weakness and strength in different groups, you then will practice on taking the exam, you should be able to identify that the level of difficulty of a question. So you can wisely spend your time in the real exam. Some questions can be skipped to save you some time. What's more important is to practice how to solve a question as quickly as possible, ideally, you should identify the key of solving a quant question in max of one min, then use another 1 min to do the calculation. Remember, for some PS, you can always test the choice back to the question, or try some special numbers in DS. Anyway, try your best to avoid a big calculation unless you are sure that is the best and only way. IMPORTANT: If you can't identify what the question test you within one min, it tells either you over complicated it or you are just missing the knowledge of this part completely. Honestly, most of the time is you're over complicating it by not applying the shortcut mentioned in the first tip properly. No matter how complex a question might sound like or how it is wrapped, more than 90% of the questions only test the basic of application of 1 or 2 points of math knowledge, now more than 4 points combined at once. Since you are doing around 45 in Q, it means you've met the entry level and you definitely have the knowledge base, you just need to work out how to unwrap a question and pick up the right answer quickly. After all, timing is the main challenge for us in Quant.
I hope it makes sense to you. Good luck in your preparation, you can do it, you just haven't found the shortcut yet.
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