Use These 4 GMAT Timing Strategies To Sail Through The Exam

In this week's video, Magoosh GMAT expert, Erika, shares how to plan out your timing while taking the GMAT. Learn to set checkpoints for yourself, the minimum and maximum time you should be spending on each question, and how to notice when it's okay to guess on something that could take you too long to answer!

00:00 - Erika introduces the video
00:29 - Have multi-question timing checkpoints
02:37 - Have a maximum time spend per question
04:40 - Have a minimum time spend per question
06:18 - Get comfortable guessing throughout the section

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[YashKapta]

This was amazing! Thanks Erica. I hope I score well.

[BarakYEET]

Thanks Erica! This was very helpful :D

[niralijoshi]

Thank you for the video it would be very helpful for me

[ambecksfulful]

Thank you Erica, that were very helpfull..!!

[adrienraucoules]

Regarding tip #3, does this include the amount of time needed to read the question? Usually it takes me at least 20-40 seconds to absorb the Q before doing the logical breakdown/prethinking

[rahulbanerjee]

Hi! Thanks for the video. I have a question though - since you shared max. time limits for various types of questions, doesn't that break Rule 1 itself (wherein we keep a track of time for blocks of questions)? How does one make sure we're not hitting the maximum permissible time for each question?

I find myself getting lost in a particular question, and end up hitting more than 3 minutes a couple of times in both the sections... This is something I'm struggling with currently.

[nikhilmudaliar]

It gets confusing for me because the timer in GMAT is a reverse countdown