I am definitely not in one of my best moods...at least was not...
Please don't take me otherwise...I am not angry at GMAT for throwing extremely difficult problems at me, nor am I mad at myself because I could not solve all the sample problems perfectly. I am mad that I spent half of my day walking around in a shopping mall with my colleagues. Or maybe I am being so obsessed by the "90th + percentiles" that I am not letting myself enjoy.
After an hour of good study in the morning, I thought that we were just going out for lunch and was pumped up to come back and continue where I had left. I realized that slowly I was getting hang of how to tackle the problems and wanted to get back from lunch ASAP and get back to my problem solving. But no! We went to a mall, where I ended up buying things and those who drove me there bought virtually nothing. Then again went to an organic shop, etc. My heart was screaming that I was losing time, with the whole day of golf lurking ahead tomorrow. Sorry to let it out here on the blog, but I thought I had wasted my day.
Enough of negativity. Positive things are that I am slowly but surely getting the hang of handling PS. And I completed the 230 problems from the bible (Official Guide I mean), albeit getting 54 wrong. 10 were silly mistakes and I am confident that after the review and a little more practice, I can really expect myself to perform well. That means, I will be able to work as per my plan of utilizing the Independence day weekend for practicing more and more.
Just one point about PS. Those like me who come from an arts/language background, we tend to get scared by numbers. GMAT exploits this fear and throws many numbers at us. DON'T PANIC! Divide the number by 2 or by 3 and you will surely reach something that makes sense. Simplification, Factorization are very very important things that I learnt in PS. I am constantly telling myself, it is not only the numbers that are important, but selection of the principle to solve the problem is much more important. As the books say, once you understand the problem, 80% of your battle is won. I really respect those who have written these books and are guiding people like me.
Way to go! Will put the Balance Sheet later in the day :-)
Please don't take me otherwise...I am not angry at GMAT for throwing extremely difficult problems at me, nor am I mad at myself because I could not solve all the sample problems perfectly. I am mad that I spent half of my day walking around in a shopping mall with my colleagues. Or maybe I am being so obsessed by the "90th + percentiles" that I am not letting myself enjoy.
After an hour of good study in the morning, I thought that we were just going out for lunch and was pumped up to come back and continue where I had left. I realized that slowly I was getting hang of how to tackle the problems and wanted to get back from lunch ASAP and get back to my problem solving. But no! We went to a mall, where I ended up buying things and those who drove me there bought virtually nothing. Then again went to an organic shop, etc. My heart was screaming that I was losing time, with the whole day of golf lurking ahead tomorrow. Sorry to let it out here on the blog, but I thought I had wasted my day.
Enough of negativity. Positive things are that I am slowly but surely getting the hang of handling PS. And I completed the 230 problems from the bible (Official Guide I mean), albeit getting 54 wrong. 10 were silly mistakes and I am confident that after the review and a little more practice, I can really expect myself to perform well. That means, I will be able to work as per my plan of utilizing the Independence day weekend for practicing more and more.
Just one point about PS. Those like me who come from an arts/language background, we tend to get scared by numbers. GMAT exploits this fear and throws many numbers at us. DON'T PANIC! Divide the number by 2 or by 3 and you will surely reach something that makes sense. Simplification, Factorization are very very important things that I learnt in PS. I am constantly telling myself, it is not only the numbers that are important, but selection of the principle to solve the problem is much more important. As the books say, once you understand the problem, 80% of your battle is won. I really respect those who have written these books and are guiding people like me.
Way to go! Will put the Balance Sheet later in the day :-)
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