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GMAT Preparation Advice
By Staff W
Updated March 5, 2016 Updated March 5, 2016Preparation is essential if you want to achieve your best-possible GMAT score. Find out what you can do now to maximize your chances of getting the result you need.
High-quality GMAT preparation means becoming intimately acquainted with the test structure, format, and the types of questions that are being asked.
It means improving upon your weak areas through practice and repetition, developing your ability to answer the tougher questions correctly, and becoming aware of the types of answers that tend to be the correct ones.
Preparing on your own can save you some financial resources, but may not always be as effective as learning from instructors who dissect each answer and impart knowledge and advice from their own GMAT-taking experiences.
The main difference is in the interaction provided by learning with a tutor and/or alongside peers. Studies show that visualization and discussion in a seminar environment will enable you to recognize complex structures more effectively than learning the same material in a non-interactive way.
During your GMAT preparation:
During the final weeks and days before the GMAT:
When you are ready to take the practice computer adaptive tests (CATs):
This article was originally published in October 2012 . It was last updated in March 2016
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