abi.olukeye wrote:
I am trying to get into top 15 B-Schools and also get a full ride scholarship.
full ride scholarships are rare, especially at top schools.
do you have outstanding experience that will set you apart from the crowd in some immediately noticeable way?
i.e., have you started companies? or started branches of your existing company?
or exhibited leadership in some other truly extraordinary way?
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RC: This is my strongest area. I average 60%.
CR: I struggle in areas such as Weaken Conclusion, Analyze Structure, Evaluate Conclusion & Exp, inference questions. I average 35%.
SC: I struggle in every area. I average 20%. I think I find it hard to identify the right answers.
SC consists of LEARNING LOTS AND LOTS OF RULES, ONE AT A TIME.
that is pretty much all that SC is.
whenever you're looking at a SC problem, you should always get TAKEAWAYS from the problem. in other words, you should be able to fill in the following sentence:
if i see ________ ON ANOTHER PROBLEM, i should ________in other words, don't just focus on the individual problems (remember that you're never going to see those individual problems again!)
CR - you've mentioned most of the major question types, so you may as well start from scratch.
* TREAT EVERY DIFFERENT TYPE OF CR QUESTION AS A SEPARATE GENRE. in other words, NONE of the reasoning that applies to, say, "find the assumption" should be applied to "strengthen the conclusion". and so on. they are ALL different.
* again, make sure that you get TAKEAWAYS from the problems.
don't stop at identifying why a particular answer choice is wrong. try to GENERALIZE, or at least MAKE ANALOGIES (i.e., try to come up with ways that the same error type could appear on another problem).
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I tend to pick the wrong answer after narrowing it down to the 2 most like-able answers from the pack.
this probably isn't true.
if you're guessing from 2 answers, you're almost certainly getting the right answer about 50% of the time.
the problem, of course, is that it's easier to NOTICE those cases in which you guess the wrong answer - because the CORRECT guesses just blend in with the
other correct problems. (i.e., when you review the problems you got wrong, all you're going to see is ... problems you got wrong.)
in any case, ALWAYS try to GENERALIZE the reasons why you're missing these problems.
this is particularly the case for CR, in which it's easy to get lost in the particulars of the passage. (remember that you're never going to see that passage again, but you'll see those
question types and
answer types again.)
Math: I would not say I have strengths in any major area in math. In problem solving questions, I am averaging 60% on 300-500 level questions and having a harder time solving the 600- 800 level questions. I get most of the DS questions wrong. I average 20% on DS sections in all areas.[/quote]
hmm.
if you're missing that many 300-500 level questions in problem solving, then you need to study ALL of the FUNDAMENTALS, in any area in which you've missed basically
any questions.
20% is the same success rate that you'd achieve by simply guessing on all of the questions, so you probably don't understand the basic format of data sufficiency.
you should look at books and/or watch the recording of session 1 of our class, in which we spend about an hour introducing the basics of DS and giving a reliable method ("The Grid") for handling DS.
in any case, you need to start at the bottom rungs of that particular ladder, and go up from there.
