【十.封.信.】GMAT 770 Q&A第九封Schedule&第十封GMAT（新添OG12SC總結，簡體版EXCEL's在47樓）。希望CDe

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About CD

Sorry that 10 has to type in English to express himself freely because of his poor Mandarin. But at least 10 managed to use his poor Mandarin to briefly introduce his made-by-himself GMAT stuff.
CD should be the best gift that GMAT gave 10.

So at the very beginning 10 skimmed through the Internet to search some information about GMAT and luckily discovered CD, just as 10 walked through the beach and luckily discovered a pearl. And then CD became the reason why 10 dared not turn to XDF, because 10 could find whatever he is searching for here, including the data and, way more important, the folks.

It’s CDers who bring CD a sense of homestead. 10 can find guides and companions everywhere. As a guy with a little special identity, 10 learn from them not only how to prepare GMAT, but also how united Chinese are and how proud he is as a Chinese, a fact that makes him convinced that one day Chinese would take the place of Jew to dominate the financial world practically. Given the situation of China’s financial market, there is undoubtedly long way behind, but China has the best team—CD.

10 has gained too much from CD, and he definitely wants to do something in return. Thus, as is mentioned above, 10 prepared some made-by-himself GMAT stuff attached at the end of this part.

Like many other CDers, 10 pick out the correct SC sentences of OG10, OG12, PREP 1 (Old version) and PREP 2 (Old version). The difference lies in that 10 also marks the points on the sentences, a method that 10 hopes would better emphasize the points when CDers look through or read loud those correct sentences. In fact, 10 just substituted those marked sentences for his own SC summary.

Another thing for SC is the SC summary of OG11. It is sort of analogous to the famous SC summary of Green Hand, but this one just apply to EXCEL the classification of OG11’s own SC points. Maybe it can be called the official one. However, there is something about it 10 needs to state. 10 himself never uses this summary, for 10 just made this work solely for CDers by fits and snatches one afternoon. Nevertheless, 10 believes that it still accords with the implicit thought of OG.

10 also made a summary of CR in the form of EXCEL. He just collects all the CR questions and OG explanations and adopt both the FEIFEI CR classification and the Lawyer CR classification. CDers can choose either one for their own sake.

The last but least one is a pack of RC summary. One is 10’s first run summary of OG10’s RC in Word version, and the other is an EXCEL version based on the former one. 10 believes that the best way to use this work is to apply to it Xiaoan’s reading method. CDers can take advantage of the function of EXCEL to classify and to filtrate, in order to fulfill several round of reviewing GMAT RC.

Besides, more detailed descriptions can be found in the Intro. Part of most of the stuff. CDers can look them through after downloading the stuff.

In order to upload different kinds of stuff, 10 has to divide what he wants to share with all the CDers into several parts. And 10 would attach other kinds of stuff (some are made by other CDers but are superbly useful in 10’s opinion.) and 10’s special thought about those topics. The rest of other parts would come out one after another—about SC, about RC, about CR, about Qua, about AWA, about JJ, about model test, about schedule, and GMAT.

It took 10 pretty long time to prepare the GMAT stuff, and 10 sincerely hopes that the stuff can do those CDers who are about to take GMAT soon a favour. Therefore, until he completes all, 10 just puts on what he has finished first.

Unlike other CDers, 10 is still a undergraduate student and don’t need to face intense applying process next term, so 10 will guard in this post in the coming future. If CDers have any question about anything, 10 will give it his best shot to answer with Mandarin.

At last, trillions of thanks, you all.

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About SC

As the saying goes, SC is enthroned. This saying is partially indisputable, since it is the last two SC questions that leave 10 no time at all and make 10 randomly choose two answers.

Besides, SC should be the most essential way to boost one’s Verbal grade in a short time, for there are so many skills in SC that could help one deal with SC questions. One is relatively difficult to bone on RC and CR, for both two depend more on one’s English level.

In practice, 10 tends to believe that with a high-class reading ability, CDers are able to quickly adapt their own reasoning to that of GMAT and thus to get a satisfactory grade in pretty short time, a reason why there are so many topics such as “ 7X0+ in less than X0 days”. In 10’s opinion, switching the reasoning includes two different parts, handling the SC points and grasping the logic of passage in a short time. Now 10 wants to talk about handling the SC points first.

As simply for skills, XDF seems to reach the peak of the perfection, and Lily undoubtedly excels in XDF—Rule 1, use “such as” when taking sth for example; Rule 2, understand the usage of “consider”… you name it. Those skills are amazingly good for those who have to get a not-bad result of GMAT in a short time, because the skills are so simple as to remember. However, 10 just believes that XDF’s skills would help one reach 700+, given that other parts are not that bad, but that if one wants a grade of 750+, he or she must jump beyond the so-called skills. What if Rule 1 runs against Rule 11 in a single SC question? Which one should take precedence over the other? This kind of situation is quite common in GWD, and of course in GMAT. This dilemma is what the so-called skills cannot solve at all.

CDers may ask:” How to deal with this dilemma?” In fact, that is just the reason why 10 can’t emphasize the correct sentences in OG and PREP too much. It is definitely fantastic way to help CDers get used to and then understand the SC points. Believe it or not, it is said that reading these correct sentences intensely everyday can make one’s GMAT grade reach 700 as well. With the points marked, those sentences, as far as 10 is concerned, can work way better. A little waring-- please don't read the correct sentences of PREP, unless CDers have determined to desert PREP as a useful model test.

Since at the very beginning the diagnostic test of OG—a bonus point that would be explained in later part— shows that 10 are pretty weak in SC part, a single fact that should bring CDers lot of confidence, 10 spent quite a long time preparing SC. He has used Baiyong, OG10, OG12, PREP and GWD. In fact, they all collect the real questions in GMAT. Moreover, OG10, OG11, OG12 also contain the explanation of OG. Practically, Baiyong, OG10, OG11, OG12 are analogous to each other in terms of degree of difficulty. Baiyong is well classified but it is somewhat out-of-date and contains some XDF stereotypes. OG10 is also kind of out but it has a large number of questions and too many aces’ painstaking effort is involved in it. OG11 is in an embarrassing situation but 10 himself made a summary of it. Considering the special status of OG12, PREP and GWD, 10 sincerely recommend that CDers never ever ignore any of them.

As a result, CDers should choose proper amount of materials to practice according to their SC level. In other word, they should critically add some of those things mentioned above to accompany OG12, PREP and GWD when reviewing SC. And it pays to focus oneself on SC.

Most importantly, whenever CDers finish a kind of SC materials, you must record the wrong answer. Be thankful to those questions which get you wrong rather than simply condemn yourselves, for they pinpoint your weak points rather than leave those weak points till the final GMAT. Then you have to review and analyze them comprehensively so that you can overcome them and avoid making the same mistakes any more. Only in this way can you get improvement after finishing a round of SC reviewing.

A supplemental instruction is that if CDers are really short of time and consider 700 a good enough grade to apply for their dream school, the summaries of Tonyaddidas and of Lily really have some magic power, so 10 will attach them to the post as well. But 10 still hope that CDers can do way much better, simply because what others summarize could no way become yours only by your learning by rote.

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About RC



At first, realizing that tons of CDers are puzzled about whether they need to recite the GMAT vocabulary, 10 would like to offer a relatively simple method to deal with this problem. Just pick up several passages in the OG12, and read them to find out whether CDers meet difficulty in understanding the basic idea of them by guessing the meaning of those unfamiliar words. Then CDers could soon know the answer by themselves. Take 10 for example. He always finds guessing quite useful as well as interesting, and he didn’t have too many problems reading the passages even in the real GMAT. However, if CDers have enough time, to acquire more English words wouldn’t hurt as well.


Besides, CDers with problems about understanding the long, difficult sentences can refer to Yangpeng's method, which has been attached already.



Then it comes to grasping the logic of passage in a short time. Interestingly, 10 isn’t talking about CR, but rather RC indeed. Many guys with a marvelous English background may perform badly in the RC. They can handle every word in the passage but cannot grasp the logic at all, especially when time is so limited that they have only two minutes to deal with each question.



It’s actually not difficult to overcome this problem. CDers just need enough practice to help them get the key to GMAT RC. Here 10 sincerely recommends the Xiaoan’s reading method, which would be another attachment in the post as well. From 10’s point of view, this method is to teach CDers how to grasp the logic of the passage through glancing over it, and then orientate the information of the question on the passage to find out the answer. The summary of 10 may be a useful tool for CDers to take use of this method to deal with RC. Thanks to EXCEL, its functions to classify and to filtrate are so powerful that it does help a lot.



As for 10’s own sake, he didn’t employ too much material in the RC part, just reusing the 82 passages in the OG10 and Daquan for maybe 3 or 4 rounds. The more he analyzed, the more brief the logic picture of the passage became and the easier he found RC. At last those pictures seemed printed in 10’s brain, but CDers could draw them down if necessary. A good example of how to draw logic pictures is provided by Mumu, and 10 will undoubtedly attach her method to the post. By the way, the method 10 used in the Run 1 of RC Sum is analogous to Mumu’s, so CDers can have a look at it.



Some CDers can turn to Annie’s method. Annie figured out a way to deal with the nearly 24 passages in the OG12 in less than 8 hours, which sounds awesome and would also be attached. However, 10 is somewhat worried that only 24 passages may be not enough for CDers to practice so as to switch CDers’ reasoning. But CDers with too little can have a try. Little is more than none after all.



Last but not least, when CDers reach the spurting stage, the classification of GWD RC would take the place and become the touchstone to evaluate what the level of RC is. CDers should cherish it since it may be the last chance to spot the problems remained and make a difference.



Besides, RC JJ would be fantastic in the GMAT, and 10 would provide more detail about it in the coming JJ part as well.

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About CR



Now it’s CR’s show time.



There are two superstars—Lawyer and Feifei— in this field, as far as 10 knows.



It is known that 10 respects XYMM so much that the ten-letters series draw the experience of XYMM’s little-classroom series. However, it is in the CR that 10 parts company with XYMM for the first time, and maybe the only one time. In fact, XYMM was strongly for Lawyer’s method, while 10 feels kind of puzzled about it. Anyone who ever tries to sort the CR questions in the OG12 by Lawyer’s type might meet lot of difficulties, perhaps because the CR questions have changed a lot since GMAC broke up with ETS. 10 is wondering whether Lawyer’s method could still perfectly apply to the new generation of CR questions.



In contrast, Feifei’s method of classification still works quite well according to 10’s summary, only because it came out lately. Nevertheless, 10 finds Feifei’s A-B theory troublesome enough to understand as well as to employ.



Frankly, 10 believes that CR is the easiest part for English whizzes, for you cannot get the answer wrong as long as you understand what the passage says and what the question asks. Maybe simply to read, and better to read by type, with the help of 10’s CR summary is the best way for CDers to improve your ability to deal with the CR problem. To be honest, CR may be the strongest part of 10, so 10 are pretty self-confident in his work. The OG10 and OG12 should offer enough CR questions for CDers to practice, especially for those English whizzes. In the most of time, 10 tended to make no more than one RC error in a set of verbal questions. The only reason for the exception is that 10 failed to understand the meaning of the passage. However, 10 felt uncertain when dealing with the CR questions and may not perform well enough in the GMAT, for the two-week final exam in the university left no time for GMAT at all and totally sweep away 10’s sense of handling the GMAT questions, a lesson would be talked about in the latter part and CDers should learn from.



Besides, 10 also has to suggest that, as is the case with the RC, CDers not insert any personal assumption into the CR passages, since the GMAT is for Americans and we Chinese all know how simple and direct their reasoning is, right?



Anyway, as a green hand, 10 may be seriously wrong in terms of evaluating superstars’ methods, so 10 also attach these two methods to the post. Perhaps 10 is just not brilliant enough to get their points. And 10 sincerely hopes that CDers can get what 10 failed in these two masterpieces, because they are so thought-provoking and have led many seniors to success.



Last but not least, the classification of GWD CR would work just as well as that of RC in the last step—to spurt. If CDers wants to learn more, please wait for the coming part—about schedule. THX.

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Frankly, 10’s experience in Qua may not be as useful for CDers as that in Ver, since 10 really spent too little time and energy on Qua.

The time and energy 10 determined to allocate for each subject depended on the potential of each subject to boost 10’s total GMAT score. Since 10 never failed to get a 51 in each practice test in GMATPrep, 10 guessed that maybe it would be more worthy to focus on the Ver part. Luckily, 10 also got a 51 in the GMAT, otherwise 10 could have been very regretful about that.

10 is still an undergraduate student in the university so that he still has to face some Maths problems at class, making Maths still a familiar part for 10. However, 10 realizes that many of CDers have graduated from university for quite a long time, so they may have totally forgotten the Maths. In this case, a complete overview can do lots of good, from 10’s own perspective. As for this reason, 10 glanced through most of the stuff for Qua part, and picked up three of them, which may be quite easy but thorough enough and includes the ChenXiangdong’s, which is too large to attach so CDers have to search by themselves, and the XDF notes for Qua from the Online course ( CDers can also find the XDF notes and videos for other part of GMAT, but 10 finds that maybe only those for SC, CR and Qua are worthwhile enough).  The Qua questions in Feifei’s may be a little more difficult than those in GMAT. Nevertheless, since 10 could not go deep into the stuff, he may make some awful suggestions. Thus, CDers are supposed to skim over those different kinds of stuff and choose one of them, only one or no of them.

Moreover, JJ is deemed as the most important part for Qua, not only because JJ can provide the best practice content but also because CDers may run across tons of JJ in the GMAT! In 10’s opinion, obtaining a consistent score of 49 or 50 in the GMATPrep, CDers could get one or two more points in the GMAT, with the help of JJ.

Oh, 10 almost forgot a essential point for Qua. However high the score of GMATPrep is, CDers should never forget to master the useful terms of Qua. As is the case with CR and RC, if one could not understand the meaning of the Qua question, how can he or she know the answer exactly? Therefore, CDers may need to read the description in the OG, and recite one of the Qua vocabulary attached.

May all CDers can get a Qua score of 51 and then show the world how intelligent Chinese are.

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AWA must be a lesson CDers should learn from 10’s little tragedy.

Without much time left, 10 only had three afternoons—maybe a total time of 8 or 9 hours—to prepare for AWA, one to make the DIY AA template, one to get the AI one from CD, and one to recite both of them. Ironically, 10 once hoped to get a satisfactory score in GMAT. Of course, he failed to do so at last.

In fact, 10 still managed to type more than 500 words in each half-hour try, but got a reaaaaly low score—4, or precisely 19%. Frankly, 10 always and forever believe in his logic thinking so as to have enough confidence in his CR as well as in his AA. As is mentioned above, 10 made his own AA template, and is still convinced that his AA score could by no means be lower than 5.5, with such logical structure, such three reasonable responses and such many words. As a result, 10 guesses that the total AWA score has suffer a lot from the AI template. Anyway, 10 is not the only victim who got hurt when simply adopting the AI template. Thus, 10 sincerely recommend that CDers carefully consider coping, or simply putting together, the templates in CD, especially those quite ancient ones. Maybe GMAT AWA scoring system has already recorded some specific sentences and phrases as low-score signals.

Consequently, and sadly, 10 could not share too much own experience with CDers about AWA. But 10 still hopes to put on several materials he never used but finds perhaps useful—a practice software and some files.
CDers must turn to the experts in this field and look for more helpful advices. 10 is just a loser in term of AWA after all.

Everyone says that the AWA score doesn’t count a lot, but no one will refuse a higher score, right? Anyway, good luck, guys.

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As for practice tests, 10 would like to talk about GMATPrep and GWD, since 10 only took these two. However, helpful CDers do offer other marvelous materials too—10 free online practice tests from different agencies in the Download district and 9 paper tests which CDers used to pay to get from mba.com in the GMAT-preparation district. CDers can freely choose some of them, if needed.
http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_Math/thread-446348-1-1.html
http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_Preparation/thread-470626-1-1.html

However, 10 still find it important that CDers focus more on GMATPrep and GWD, for they both collect real questions from GMAT and involve too much painstaking effort of seniors.

Now let’s compare and contrast GMATPrep and GWD. The greatest advantage of GMATPrep is that the system of GMATPrep is exactly the same as that of GMAT, providing the best way to practice CDers’ pace and to evaluate CDers’ level, even though the questions in GMATPrep will never appear in the real GMAT again. Nevertheless, in order to maintain its usefulness, CDers are supposed not to take any of the GMATPrep SC questions or GWD, since it is likely to meet the same questions and make the practice tests lose their originality. However, GMATPrep has only two practices of two sets of questions while CDers definitely need more tests to practice. If keeping taking these two tests, CDers might meet a lot of familiar questions as well. Besides, a lot of CDers need to take practice tests by stage and another one before the real test, creating a dilemma. 10 recommend a solution—since GMATPrep has an old version and a new one which is added some new questions on the basis of the old version, CDers can firstly make use of the old one to take practice tests by stage , and then the new one before the real test.

As far as 10, except the first practice test of GMATPrep with a score of 770, 10 all got 790 in others so that he was called the emperor of practice tests by some of his friends. Sadly, 10 just got 770 in the real GMAT, a fact that ironically prove the accuracy of GMATPrep. 10 found the mood when taking the real one is hugely different from that of the practice ones. In the real GMAT, 10 was too relaxed at first and too nervous at last, leaving no enough time to complete the last two SC questions. Taking the lesson from 10, CDers should predetermine the mood when taking the real GMAT. Just from time to time imagine what mood you should be in when meeting different kinds of situation and you will surely be well-prepared.

As it comes to GWD, 10 has to state that there are two different ways to use GWD. One is the sets of GWD questions mainly for practicing pace, and the other is the classification of GWD questions mainly for maintain the feeling of solving different kinds of questions in the spurting stage. The greatest advantage of GWD is that there are a lot of real questions—thanks to the guys who snatched them—and CDers may run across the same questions in the real GMAT, a advantage that is shrinking because GWD is becoming increasingly out-of-day and more GWD questions appear in the New GMATPrep. However, before there appear other better materials to practice and spurt, CDers should not give up GWD. If you meet one GWD RC passage in the real GMAT, you will then realize how priceless GWD is. As is mentioned in the previous part of the series of ten-letters, the classification of GWD is a fantastic stuff for practice in the spurting stage. CDers should cherish it since it may be the last chance to spot the problems remained and make a difference.

At the same time, 10 should state that the answers to GWD are not always correct, for those guys can only snatch the questions rather than the answers, and we CDers have to figure out the answers all by ourselves after intense discussion. 10 will attach the revised his own answer sheet for GWD, in which the yellow cell means doubt and the yellow cell with bracket in it means that 10 has found sufficient evidence that the original answer is wrong and the right one lies in the bracket. As well, CDers can by the way have an idea about the errors 10 has made in GWD. However, CDers should not focus too much on the result of GWD, not only because the scoring system of GMAT never be applied to GWD but also because GWD just work as practice tests after all.

Let 10 put it this way, it is only the score of the real GMAT that counts in the single cell for GMAT CDers send to your dream school. Therefore, you guys know what 10 means, right?

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About JJ

10 didn’t find JJ that useful until he took the real GMAT. It seemed that all the RC passages and more than 70% Q questions 10 met were from JJ, a fortune that has saved 10 tons of time. Consequently, 10 strongly hope that CDers can trickily choose a great time for enough JJ. As far as 10 knows, one-week JJ is quite enough. If CDers took the real GMAT with two-week JJ as 10 did, 10 believes that CDers would undoubtedly have a sumptuous JJ dinner!

To cut the crap, 10 directly arranges different kinds of JJ in order of priority—GWD JJ> Qua JJ> RC JJ>> SC, CR JJ.

The greatest advantage of GWD JJ is that CDers can find out the complete original information so as to deeply think about and discuss the questions rather than simply guess a lot with the help of other CDers’ memory. Imagine that you just meet a GWD passage in the real GMAT but you could hardly recall much of it. What a shame! Thus, if CDers find any original GWD question in the JJ file, please do cherish it.

Qua JJ is another gift that can save us lots of time. It is known that the Math in US is much too easy for us Chinese. With a lot of talents discussing those primary-school Math questions, how can we not figure out the answer? However, 10 would like to remind CDers that we had better know the method of solving the questions rather than simply remember the answers themselves, because GMAT may be so foxy as to revise the questions and then trap us.

RC JJ may be the most controversial one, since there plenty of CDers for it and against it at the same time. It can indeed both save your time and provide an answer when we have no idea at all, while it may also mislead us for the CDers themselves might make mistakes when taking the GMAT. Considering this dilemma, 10 would like to advise CDers to choose the RC JJ wisely. Whether the RC JJ is good depends not on whether the author’s score is higher than 700 but on whether the logic of it is clear enough. CDers should make use of RC JJ to get a basic idea of the logic rather recite all the content of RC JJ. And 10 hopes that those CDers who share their JJ had better grasp the logic, and tell in paragraph at least.

As for SC JJ and CR JJ, 10 himself didn’t read them before taking the GMAT, and still don’t recommend CDers to pay too much attention to them, not only because there are too many questions for JJ authors to remember clearly, but also because GMAT can easily revise the questions and CDers would suffer a lot from the unspecific information.

As last, 10 would like to sincerely thank those CDers who share their JJ and who help arrange JJ. It is them who perform real deeds for us CDers while 10 is uttering bullshit. Trillions of thanks, guys. You live in the shadow but always shine.

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Considering all things mentioned or not mentioned above, 10 wants to share with CDers some personal views about the schedule for GMAT.

10 notices that many green hands would just swallow down the schedules of the pros who got high score in GMAT, regardless of the huge difference between them. This misconduct would tend to do harm rather than good. Practically, 10 believes that the best outfit is the one that fits, so here 10 just provides a simple framework rather than too much specific information, and CDers have to work out your own schedule after checking out reviewing what 10 told and what fits you. The time span, intensity control and stuff selection is totally under your control, since CDers must get the hand of enough information about GMAT after reading the previous letters of 10’s ten-letter series.

Step 1: To comprehend GMAT—Obey your thirst (Spring).

If CDers have to do something, you must know it inside out, otherwise how can you cope with it? Thus, the best ceremony for your GMAT is to log on CD, and to find out useful information and stuff as much as possible. Like 10 himself, CDers must be quite curious about GMAT as the very beginning, so here 10 uses the phrase—obey your thirst—from Spring. Please do pay enough attention on the posts stuck on the top, which the moderators considerately prepare for you. And if CDers can keep an eye on 10’s post, 10 would cherish so.

Step 2: To work out a plan—Intelligence everywhere (Motorola).

After finishing the Step 1, it is time for CDers to carry on. 10 refers to the famous phrase of Motorola—intelligence everywhere, because in this step CDers have to comprehensively consider tons of things—what your goal is, what level you are in, how much time you got, or whatever. If your dream school just need you to score 700, maybe it would be a waste of time to consume too much to pursue a 750, even though the higher score the better, because GMAT is just one of the measurement of how potential you are to become a marvelous business manager, and it may pay more for you to focus your priceless time and energy on other parts. Most importantly, CDers are supposed to make good use of the Diagnostic Test on the OG12, because it would help you determine what your level is in different parts of GMAT, and thus how to work out a plan for GMAT.

Step 3: To conquer each part respectively—Let’s make things better (Philips).

Now, it comes to Step 3. The reason why 10 cites the phrase—let’s make things better is that this step is the best opportunity for CDers to improve their score.

Take SC for example; if CDers just are in the level of Average in SC, based on the result of the Diagnostic Test, and you want to score 750 in GMAT, you definitely need to greatly improve your skills in dealing with SC questions. Maybe you need three or four rounds for SC preparation. The stuff for first round could be Baiyong or OG10, that for second OG12, and that for third PREP SC. 10 couldn’t emphasize the importance of analyzing the questions after finishing each round because it is the analysis rather than the simple answer that matters. Besides, when conquering SC part, CDers should also keep basic practice of other parts of GMAT in order to preserve the feeling of dealing with all kinds of questions of GMAT. 10 himself did suffer a lot from the interruption the final exams brought to GMAT, and he almost lost all the feelings he got previously and then performed badly in the real GMAT.

After dealing with the SC part, CDers can move on to others. It is worthwhile to take a practice test to check out the effect because it could pinpoint your weakness after all.

As for 10 himself, he focused more on SC and RC, less on CR, and almost none on Q and AWA in this step, and it all depends.

Step 4: To spurt—Just do it (Nike).

Just do it. In fact, that just do so would be more proper, but who cares? 10 is quite Nike, so he uses this phrase to show the determination in the last step. It should be the arena for GWD and JJ. The sets of GWD questions mainly for practicing pace, and the other is the classification of GWD questions mainly for maintain the feeling of solving different kinds of questions. And everyone knows the function of JJ, right.

And once again, 10 has to state that this step may be the last chance to spot the problems remained and make a difference. Anyway, CDers should be value it as well as keep confident and winded down, because no pain, no gain, while pain, gain.

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10 has been kind of lost since he finished GMAT. At first, he just thought that he was still caring the no-good end that he had to randomly choose two answers for the last two SC questions because of his disrupted pace. However, it came to him that maybe he is indeed missing GMAT. Maybe GMAT has grown on him, as a part of his life.

This situation sounds a little weird because at the very beginning 10 chose GMAT simply because he would die rather than recite the gross vocabulary of GRE. In addition, with only experience with paper test at that time, he just considered not only the CAT but also the system of grading something from outer space.

Nevertheless, step by step, 10 came to know GMAT increasingly. He started to reach CD, OG, SC, GWD, JJ … or whatever, tons of concepts which he would not have known if he had just chosen another orientation. Let’s put it this way, 10 started a fancy journey, actually.

10 somewhat disliked the phrase “to kill G”, even though he deeply understood what is involved in this single phrase—determination, diligence, fulfillment, and maybe more than he could mention. But 10 had been a big GMAT freak totally. He just believed that to kill G is definitely not the best way to be along with G. Maybe to love G is the answer everyone is looking for. Just as IB won’t give the best opportunity to those who simply want the money of it, so GMAT won’t give the best grade to those who simply want the single result and then immediately run away. The best part lies throughout the journey rather than just at the ending spot. To 10, GMAT is not a single milestone to polish him up, but rather a precious process in which he grows up.

Moreover, GMAT has given 10 something more—a switch of reasoning, a priceless CD, and an opportunity to chase dream. He finds prose precisely over his head because he could find on point in it and thus not figure out the logic. He gets used to wandering in CD whenever he gains access to Internet. He sort of begins to believe that his life is not totally of no use at all. Everyone knows that 10 used to be a student who repeated one-year study and never became the “three good” student even in the primary school, right?

But now, considering that his GMAT is over, what is 10 supposed to do? Totally cross GMAT out of his mind and then become a simple-minded, homeless and futureless guy again? 10 is pretty puzzled.

A friend of 10’s, to whom 10 happened to mention to her his bottom line of not taking another test, ran across 10 and asked:” How is the GMAT? Does it meet the bottom line?” “Neither more nor less.” 10 forced a smile, and then talked about the disrupted pace and the pity that he didn’t finish GMAT in fact and the dilemma he got in.

“What a shame. So you are going to take GMAT again?” she asked, after listening to all the bullshit. “Of course not. 770 is not that satisfactory but acceptable, for it meets my bottom line after all. Besides, my folks would find me crazy to take War Ⅱ with a grade of 770.” “ What indeed matters is neither what your bottom line is nor what others think, but what you want unconsciously.” she interrupted 10. Her words did provoke some thought of 10’s.

Perhaps, after coping with other stuff he has to take care, 10 would squeeze some time to have a second try. Whether the grade is higher than 770 seems not to count that much. 10 just need a complete ending for his journey.

Maybe someone is ready to open fire now, but please forgive 10, for he is simply deep in love with GMAT.