This guy is a legend - putting yourself live for an hour in a vulnerable pressure exam is not easy and that's why there are not many such videos like this. You got my respect big man!!
Great job Reed. These videos are super helpful. Ignoring the sentence correction since that has now been phased out for the Focus. Otherwise still very relevant!
Reed , Thanks alot for making this vedio. You have just demonstrated an example of putting yourself in vulnerable position and helping others how to tackle gmat in person. Great Job Reed!
Thanks for making this video Reed. There were learnings from this video. Seeing some expert like you taking the GMAT is very beneficial for students like us. Thanks once again.
I always feel that I am short of time for last 2 RC . I am planning to skip one RC . Which one do you think is better to skip 3rd or 4th RC?By the time clock reads 10 minutes I am somewhere between 28- 30th question. My last 6 questions get only 5-10 minutes .Which makes me rush and make more mistake.
Hey there. I was using Zoom's annotation tool kit. That will NOT be there on the real test--so there will be no underlining/highlighting the passages or sentences, as I did here. I just used it to draw your eye to what I was noticing as I was reading/thinking.
this was crazy... last 20 mins are when I start to get nervous. it's something that pulls my score down by 7-8 points at times -- messing up the last 10-15 questions.. I am usually at 99% difficulty level questions and they look like a breeze but going forward even easier questions start to feel tougher. The brain stops as yours did. How can I train it better and make less silly mistakes?
Great resource for exam prep! I am personally not sold on the idea of not reading the whole passage in RC, to me it seems you could have answered some questions a lot quicker and more accurate by just reading the full text once. Do you recommend that strategy for everybody? Or is reading speed a factor for you?
You are not sold on NOT reading the whole text once? Meaning.... You think everyone SHOULD read the full text once? If that's what you're saying, I definitely recommend that to all my students and do myself. There's not a passage here I didn't read all the way through first. If you are saying you are not sold that we SHOULD read the whole text once, I disagree, and most other high-scorers would as well. So many questions hinge heavily on what the main idea of a passage is, by not reading that and getting it locked down, we risk missing questions. Most high scorers recommend going through the whole passage, and then going to the questions. NOT going through the questions and 'hunting' for the answer, one question at a time. However, some teachers DO recommend, during that first read, skipping 'chunks' of text WHEN YOU'VE CAREFULLY THOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND THAT CHUNK'S PURPOSE. This is because on that first read, the specific details can be easy to get lost in and there are too many to worry about. I personally don't outright skip, but I do advocate skimming, when you've realized what 'job' a hunk of text is doing for the main purpose.
@@reedarnold5468 okay yeah I think we do agree. I don't know why this vid gave me the impression you were just skimming it on the first read through. Probably because I was watching them on the last prep day and had already lost a good chunk of my concentration haha.
Hi @Manhattan Prep GMAT @Reed - q 23 .. is this how you eliminated option B specifically OR is your reasoning different ? Passage : Impact of published articles > Number of published items FOR purposes of promotion. Option B : you can have impact ONLY IF your work is published Option B is NOT saying, everything that is published is impact-full. Instead the other way around, anything that is impact-full is published So there can be items published that are NOT impactful. Hence the passage DOESNT quite strengthen NOR weaken option B because -- option B doesnt touch on whether "Number of published items" matters or not for promotion. -- option B doesnt say, the "More impactful" -- the higher your chances for promotion Option B doesnt really talk about "promotion" at all Hence option B is irrelevant.
Yeah, that's the issue Jaideep. The passage says that the impact of published work is what is helpful for hiring and promotion, not the number of published works. B says that only published works (though not necessarily *all* published works) can be considered 'impactful.' It's just not material to the passage. The passage neither supports nor disallows that non-published works can be impactful. The passage just states "The impact of your published works matters more to hiring/promotion than does the number of your published works." There are likely many other things that could be considered important for hiring/promotions (including, potentially, impactful non-published works? Who knows), and there are possibly many other kinds of work that can be impactful besides published works.
Every company talks about their content and how should we prepare and blah blah blah. This is the first time ive seen, How does an expert takes the exam. This is great. I was bored of that typical blah blah blah!
you only got 42 because you skipped the last 2 questions - you would have got atleast one of them right if you had 4 minutes for the passage. 6 incorrect score would become maybe 44?
This guy is a legend - putting yourself live for an hour in a vulnerable pressure exam is not easy and that's why there are not many such videos like this. You got my respect big man!!
I just want to take a moment to thank Arnold Reed, he is just amazing..
Yay! We agree. Reed is awesome!!!
Great job Reed. These videos are super helpful. Ignoring the sentence correction since that has now been phased out for the Focus. Otherwise still very relevant!
Great video! Stop eliminating answers that you have already eliminated
This was a brilliant session. Thanks Arnold, for giving us this.
Reed , Thanks alot for making this vedio. You have just demonstrated an example of putting yourself in vulnerable position and helping others how to tackle gmat in person.
Great Job Reed!
Thanks for making this video Reed. There were learnings from this video. Seeing some expert like you taking the GMAT is very beneficial for students like us. Thanks once again.
This is just what I was looking for. I believe no prep companies have started doing it.
Haha you attempted the last quant question & said let's just get this correct. So sweet 😅🤗 thank you for the session!
49:00 I remembered Stannis as soon as I saw that question lmao
thanks for doing this Reed!
this is amazing man
great job reed
I always feel that I am short of time for last 2 RC . I am planning to skip one RC . Which one do you think is better to skip 3rd or 4th RC?By the time clock reads 10 minutes I am somewhere between 28- 30th question. My last 6 questions get only 5-10 minutes .Which makes me rush and make more mistake.
Bravo Reed
I have a rather weird question, how did Reed manage to use the red pencil tool and if the usage is allowed on the test day? 50:30
Hey there. I was using Zoom's annotation tool kit. That will NOT be there on the real test--so there will be no underlining/highlighting the passages or sentences, as I did here. I just used it to draw your eye to what I was noticing as I was reading/thinking.
this was crazy... last 20 mins are when I start to get nervous. it's something that pulls my score down by 7-8 points at times -- messing up the last 10-15 questions.. I am usually at 99% difficulty level questions and they look like a breeze but going forward even easier questions start to feel tougher. The brain stops as yours did. How can I train it better and make less silly mistakes?
38:17 and 47:15 Me at question 3
if you are under time pressure... what am i supposed to do xD,
you should take the other tests that you can buy from the official gmat page as well :)
Here are some great tips about time management! www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gmat-time-management-part-1-of-3/
Great resource for exam prep! I am personally not sold on the idea of not reading the whole passage in RC, to me it seems you could have answered some questions a lot quicker and more accurate by just reading the full text once. Do you recommend that strategy for everybody? Or is reading speed a factor for you?
You are not sold on NOT reading the whole text once? Meaning.... You think everyone SHOULD read the full text once? If that's what you're saying, I definitely recommend that to all my students and do myself. There's not a passage here I didn't read all the way through first.
If you are saying you are not sold that we SHOULD read the whole text once, I disagree, and most other high-scorers would as well. So many questions hinge heavily on what the main idea of a passage is, by not reading that and getting it locked down, we risk missing questions. Most high scorers recommend going through the whole passage, and then going to the questions. NOT going through the questions and 'hunting' for the answer, one question at a time.
However, some teachers DO recommend, during that first read, skipping 'chunks' of text WHEN YOU'VE CAREFULLY THOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND THAT CHUNK'S PURPOSE. This is because on that first read, the specific details can be easy to get lost in and there are too many to worry about. I personally don't outright skip, but I do advocate skimming, when you've realized what 'job' a hunk of text is doing for the main purpose.
@@reedarnold5468 okay yeah I think we do agree. I don't know why this vid gave me the impression you were just skimming it on the first read through. Probably because I was watching them on the last prep day and had already lost a good chunk of my concentration haha.
Hi @Manhattan Prep GMAT @Reed - q 23 .. is this how you eliminated option B specifically OR is your reasoning different ?
Passage : Impact of published articles > Number of published items FOR purposes of promotion.
Option B : you can have impact ONLY IF your work is published
Option B is NOT saying, everything that is published is impact-full. Instead the other way around, anything that is impact-full is published
So there can be items published that are NOT impactful.
Hence the passage DOESNT quite strengthen NOR weaken option B because
-- option B doesnt touch on whether "Number of published items" matters or not for promotion.
-- option B doesnt say, the "More impactful" -- the higher your chances for promotion
Option B doesnt really talk about "promotion" at all
Hence option B is irrelevant.
Yeah, that's the issue Jaideep. The passage says that the impact of published work is what is helpful for hiring and promotion, not the number of published works.
B says that only published works (though not necessarily *all* published works) can be considered 'impactful.'
It's just not material to the passage. The passage neither supports nor disallows that non-published works can be impactful. The passage just states "The impact of your published works matters more to hiring/promotion than does the number of your published works."
There are likely many other things that could be considered important for hiring/promotions (including, potentially, impactful non-published works? Who knows), and there are possibly many other kinds of work that can be impactful besides published works.
Every company talks about their content and how should we prepare and blah blah blah.
This is the first time ive seen, How does an expert takes the exam.
This is great. I was bored of that typical blah blah blah!
seems similar stress for you,
you only got 42 because you skipped the last 2 questions - you would have got atleast one of them right if you had 4 minutes for the passage.
6 incorrect
score would become maybe 44?