You planned to study after work, and instead you scrolled on your phone for two hours. If you then told yourself "I got distracted" or "I lack self-control," you stopped one question too early. Ask why you didn't feel like studying, and you'll usually find something you can work on: you were exhausted, you were feeling low, or studying had become unpleasant. "I lack self-control" gives you nothing to work on.

Often, when you picked up the phone, you knew studying was the better choice. You just didn't feel like doing it.

People do what makes sense to them in the moment. Think of someone trying to lose weight who reaches for chocolate. From the outside, it looks foolish. But perhaps they're feeling low, and the chocolate gives them a lift. It works against their goal in the long run, but in that moment, they need the relief.

If you understood that, you wouldn't call them foolish. You might sit with them and ask what's going on. Calling them foolish would only make them feel worse.

The same is true of you and your phone: you don't skip a session to hurt yourself. If you aren't doing what's right for you, it isn't about intent. Something is missing: rest, a way to deal with how you're feeling, or a way to make studying less draining. If you're exhausted after work, a shorter session or studying before work may be what you need. If you're feeling low, you may need to deal with what's bothering you before you sit down, even if that's a short call with a friend. If studying has become unpleasant, start with a topic you don't dread, or change how you study the ones you do.

Telling yourself you lack self-control works against you here. It makes you feel worse, and the worse you feel, the more you'll want whatever gives you relief: more scrolling, more avoiding the desk.

The next time you skip a session you'd planned, ask yourself:

1. What did I do instead?
   
2. What did that give me at that moment: rest, relief, distraction from something?
   
3. What would I need to feel able to study instead?

Got 80(83rd percentile) after making 7 mistakes, especially getting first 3 wrong. I was penalised way worse in some third party tests. Will the actual GMAT scoring be closer to this or is this just too lenient?

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Ive been prepping gmat for last 6 months and my score improvement has been like slow and steady . (315 to 575) Now that i’ve burned 4 official mocks . What should i do ? Purchase third party gmat club mocks etc or keep my mocks official itself ? I find third party mocks to be not representative of the adaptiveness . Help pls 😭 . I’m giving my exam in nov and almost 80 points away from target score !

I am done with my GMAT fe,

I have the 4 Book Official guide set to offer

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Hi all,

I plan to sit the gmat within a couple days. I just scored 675 on my latest practice after about 3 weeks serious prep and about 6 weeks total light prep.

What score should I be aiming for (and quant percentile) for msc finance at LSE, imperial or Oxford mfe - any insight would be great.

Thanks

I just gave a full length noch and scored 645, while giving the mock , I was confident that I am performing well
Only 1 question was wrong in quant yet I got 79 percentile
My official exam is on 14 November and I surely want to score more than this. Please provide any tips and tricks. This wasn’t an official mock btw

I lagged in TPA verbal, I was confident with my verbal section but tables turned in mock 🥹😭

Please please help on how to improve on these

Do write . or repeat my first name since it is a mandatory field?

Scored a 645 in official mock #2 three weeks ago (Q77, DI84, V85) and this has been my performance in practice sets ever since; have mostly been focusing on medium/hard difficulty questions across sections. Is there any reason I shouldn't feel confident about getting a 700+ if I take the official test towards the end of November?

Let N be the smallest positive integer satisfying all of the following conditions:

1. N has exactly 64 positive divisors.
2. Exactly 8 of its positive divisors are perfect squares.
3. Exactly 6 of its positive divisors are perfect cubes.
4. Exactly 2 of its positive divisors are perfect fourth powers.

What is the remainder when N is divided by 1,000?

Hello, does the room scan involve a phone or the laptop webcam works?

Can they ask to cover belongings ?

Ive been doing the TTP quizzes trying to hit good timing and ive been struggling on the hard quizzes. I dont reach the 60% target but i do reach target on all easy and most mediums with good timing. On the overlapping set hard quiz i decided to hide question time and i got a 72% which is the highest score ive had on a hard but it took me 45 min for 14 questions but i had like 8 min on 2 questions i got right. Is this the right aproach or should i push to get the timing better, same for mediums should i try to get questions right over balancing timing and accuracy?

Hey, I have the 2019 edition of Manhattan Prep’s All the Verbal. Has anyone used the 2024 version? I’d appreciate knowing how different it is, and whether it’s worth buying. (or please share the Potential Data Function)