「Aaron 許」GMAT考取710高分！

申請人姓名：Aaron許
考試成績：Q47 V41 AWA5.5  總分：710分
考試日期：2012/08/10 

【心得/各科準備方式】
I was a member of Word God's GMAT class in the summer of 2011. My time at Word God was short, but while I was there, the instructors did a phenomenal job of laying the groundwork for my understanding of the GMAT. I have read through Manhattan study guides (Latest Edition without IR), the Official Guide, miscellaneous tips here and there, but I have to say none of those resources were nearly as effective as the handouts and lectures given at Word God. After leaving Word God, I put my skills to the test by pacing myself through the 24 GWD exams posted on Dr. Kang's blog. By reviewing the mistakes that I made and consulting online forums for detailed explanations of certain questions, I saw an improvement in my score every 5-6 mock exams that I attempted. It was hard to keep up with my GMAT routine when school got busy. I was forced to leave the GMAT aside until summer vacation even though I arranged for the exam to be in July. Consequently, I was only left with 2 months to complete my preparation for the exam. Fortunately, I was able to walk out of my first encounter with the actual exam with a score greater than 700.

The verbal and quantitative sections of the GMAT encompass multiple identities. Within the verbal section, students have to contend with three different kinds of questions such as sentence correction, critical reasoning, and reading comprehension. In the quantitative section, students are asked to solve word problems or data sufficiency problems. Beginning with the verbal section, I feel that the best way to get better at sentence correction is to learn as many sentence correction tips as possible. Thankfully, Dr. Kang compiles and uploads very comprehensive study packages to his blog and Facebook page all the time. On the other hand, for critical reasoning, it is impossible to get better by just reading the answers.  An effort must be made to understand how to think the way GMAT wants you to think. Through the lectures given at Word God, I acclimated to the GMAT's logic and was able to approach Critical Reasoning questions by methodically eliminating the choices. For Reading Comprehension, I think that one of the better ways to understand the passage is to take notes on the passage while reading. Simultaneously reading and writing helps facilitate the processing of text more efficiently than doing either of the two in isolation. Although most students feel that the verbal section is the most difficult section out of the four, I think that the quantitative section also provides quite the challenge, especially its data sufficiency questions. The word problems on the exam are usually solvable. By “solvable” I mean that all it takes to solve the problem are some basic arithmetic, algebraic manipulation or a combination of both to arrive at the answer. The problems use numbers that are relatively “nice”. However, data sufficiency problems are not quite as simple. I will openly admit that the reason why my quantitative score is not as high as it should be was because I was not very good at solving data sufficiency problems. The reason why I struggled with data sufficiency was because I did not attend all the classes offered by Word God. Therefore, I highly recommend all students to take as many lessons as they can with Word God, so that they can overcome the biggest hurdle in the quantitative section. Finally, the other two sections of the GMAT are quite straightforward. Getting a 5 or higher on the analysis of an argument essay is definitely within reach. My advice to students struggling with the AWA writing section is to construct a mold out of the word bank given in Word God's AWA handouts. After memorizing the mold, practice identifying flawed assumptions within the question prompt. It is then just a simple matter of attacking the author by plugging in the author's assumptions into the mold. The last piece of advice I have is regarding the new integrated reasoning section. To be completely honest, I started preparing for that section one day before the exam and came out with a decent score (in my opinion). All I did to prepare for integrated reasoning was one read-through of the answers to PP4’s integrated reasoning questions just to see once again how the GMAT thinks.
Last but not least I would like to thank Dr. Kang and all of the hard working staff at Word God for the dedication they put into making sure all of their students succeed. Thank you Word God.

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