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How to Make the Most of Your Study Time
Do a little each day. It’s better to do a little homework each day than a lot of homework
on one day! If you try to do all of your homework on your day off, at some point, you’ll
probably find yourself doing the problems just to get them done. You want to learn
something from the questions. Plus, if you don’t start your homework until a few days
after your class, you may find that you’ve forgotten some of the approaches that you
learned in class. If you do a little bit of homework each day, you’ll find it easier to master
the skills tested on the GMAT. And, you won’t spend your whole day off doing GMAT
questions!
If you start to zone out, take a break. When you start to find yourself focusing more on
just getting the answer than how to get to the answer, it’s time to take a break. To
improve your GMAT score, you need to identify and fix your weaknesses. You can’t do
that effectively if you’re not paying attention to how you approach the question.
Practice the techniques. The methods that you learn in class have helped tens of
thousands of GMAT students improve their scores. Some of them will seem strange at
first. And, in many cases, they may seem more time consuming. That’s normal. As you
get more comfortable with the techniques, you’ll find that both your accuracy and your
speed will increase.
Learn to guess. All of your practice questions include explanations. It may be tempting to
look at the explanation as soon as you get stuck. However, when you take the real
GMAT, you won’t be able to glance at an explanation for a hint. So, before you look at the
explanation, practice your elimination skills. If you can’t find the right answer, look for
wrong answers to eliminate. Your teacher will help you to learn how to identify wrong
answers for each type of question. Once you’ve eliminated some answers and made a
guess, then it’s time to look at the explanation. Most test takers need to guess a few times
when they take the GMAT. Learning how to guess effectively can give a real boost to
your score.
Use the Office Hours. Your course includes 30 hours of online office hours each week. If
you have questions as you are doing your homework, all you need to do is go to the
online classroom and a Princeton Review GMAT expert will answer your questions.
Making use of the office hours is great way to ensure that you are solving problems in
the way most likely to increase your GMAT score. Information about when the classroom
is staffed is available in this student portal. If the classroom isn't staffed when you are
doing your homework, make sure that you keep a list of the questions that gave you
trouble so that you can make use of the online office hours when the classroom is staffed.