Those two weeks were hell. Check out my YouTube video below to hear the full story. Studying sciences for the past decade set my brain to memorize only. When I got to the quantitative reasoning revision of the GMAT, I realized that I had to chuck my previous study strategies out of the window if I was even to score above the fiftieth percentile on the exam.
Math was actually my strong suite when I was younger, and I remember great successes in my high school classrooms. The problem was, is that I hadn’t really used mathematical reasoning in ten years so this skill lied dormant in my brain. After I realized that the same, consistent method of studying did not work across every discipline I had to go back and revisit my strategies. I remember learning math from the teacher, I would watch how he would solve the problems a few times than simply apply that to exams. My dad is a math wizard, and he sat down with me to explain every problem on the two, free mock GMATs. During the process I had to visualize myself back in the classroom.. where I triumphed.
Check out the full video here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhCGBDN860