Tips for GMAT prep

1. Allot time limits

While you no longer have the burden of choosing the time limits for each section in the paper, you still have to give time limit within each section of the paper. Section I has QA and DI and it is imperative that you give sufficient times to each of these sections.

Even if you are a stud in QA or DI, there will always be easy questions in the area that you aren't so good. It would be prudent, hence, to ensure that you give time limits within sections.

2. Stick to the time limits

Giving time limits is one part, sticking to that is the trickier part. Be disciplined.

3. Get-away time

For every type of question, there should be something called a 'get-away time'.

After spending some time on a question, the biggest decision to be made is, whether to spend more time or leave that question. You will find, more often than not, that leaving the question that you are not able to crack in the first minute or 2 is always prudent.

LEAVE THE QUESTION after you have spent the get-away time. This could be 2 minutes for a QA question or 3 and a half minute for the DI set or 1 minute for a Grammar question!

4. Have a strategy

Make sure that you have a proper strategy for attempting the paper. Don't go into the paper without having a clear-cut idea on how you are going to attempt the questions. 

Even if you have to change that strategy mid-way due to circumstances, it is worth starting with one. Otherwise, the danger of wasting too much time figuring-out what to do is high