One of my co-founders at Magoosh, http://www.bonment.com, gives the following advice for studying for the GMAT:
My method for studying for the GMAT involved crushing boulders into sand. For every set of practice questions that I answered, I categorized each question into the following groups:
‘Sand’: I knew how to solve this question and I solved it correctly and quickly.
‘Small pebbles’: I knew how to solve this question, but it took me longer than it should have.
‘Large rocks’: I knew how to solve part of this question, narrowed down my choices to two answers, and guessed.
‘Boulders’: I did not know how to solve this problem and I made a wild guess.
In each session, my approach was to crush my largest objects. So if I had ‘boulders’, I would immediately re-answer those questions. If I didn’t have any ‘boulders’, then I would re-answer my ‘large rocks’. But if I had ‘boulders’, I would just re-answer those, wouldn’t re-answer any other questions, and end my practice session.?This would ensure that I took the most important lessons away from each practice session and not get distracted by less important lessons. I didn’t try to try to crush a ‘boulder’ into ‘sand’ in one session. That process would take multiple sessions.
In my next post I will talk about why crushing ‘boulders’ into ‘large rocks’ over time allowed me to retain knowledge better than crushing ‘boulders’ into ‘sand’ in one session. Here’s a teaser: it involved a learning technique called?http://www.bonment.com.
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