It is a section for which students prepare themselves for a year or two, but then they are not able to score good marks. They get panicked in this section and mess up their overall score since it is not only impacting that section itself but also the verbal section because they are full of trepidation about scoring low.
WHY IS THEIR PREPARATION NOT SHOWING RESULTS?
Many of them have this question in mind; they always brood, like some simply give up, some start taking more pain by increasing their working hours, some consult with their mentors or teachers, and many other cases. The answer to their question lies in their preparation. Always remember that this exam is a test of your aptitude, not knowledge solely. For example, skills like the art of skimming, choosing the easier questions first etc. are going to fetch you more marks than solving them in a fixed pattern. They try to test you in a situation where you need to speed up using your tools of patience and aptitude, so prepare them in the same way.
WHAT SHOULD BE OUR PREPARATION STRATEGY?
Before understanding the preparation strategy, we need to know that there are two types of students–
Case1: Those who are not good at QUANTITATIVE ABILITY, maybe because they are from different streams and have lost connection with mathematics, or maybe they never had interest in that subject. They need to solve 9100+ questions before the IPMAT examination, which is 25 questions every day, to get into the 2nd case.
Case2: Those who are good at QUANTITATIVE ABILITY but are not as effective in this section as they should be. These students lack the strategy they should have while preparing this section, and it is a very common mistake seen in most students.
THE STRATEGY-
- Don’t just solve, try to attempt faster and use a stopwatch of 40 minutes for 25 Questions. Do it for 5 days a week. (Have difficulty a little higher than the actual exam.)
- Give sectional mocks twice a week on the remaining days.
- After doing these things, note the kinds of questions in which you take time, topics you find difficult, and those of your strength. (In full-length mocks it will help you to categorize your question, and you are not going to miss questions that you can do.)
- When you categorize them, give them a label.
ROUND 1: Questions of your strength
ROUND 2: Time-taking
ROUND 3: Difficult questions that should be left
- Giving them these round numbers is super important because it will help to know which easy question that you have missed cost you 4 marks or the unnecessary question that you have attempted, and it took a lot of time, which you can invest in other easy questions.
If you do your preparation in this way, then you will surely see improvement. Just don’t get upset by low scores since the difficulty of mock varies.
IMPORTANT POINT: Always look for the percentile, not the scores. Note your percentile weekly and after every month, just compare it to see if it is improving or not. Since the score of a topper guy can go lower in the difficult MCQ section while the score of an average student can look higher in the easy MCQ section. So always look for PERCENTILE WHILE ASSESSING YOUR IMPROVEMENT from the past to the present.
SUGGESTION- Give topic-wise test also with difficulty mentioned because it will help you while analyzing, basically when you are choosing a question to attempt or not.
BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR FUTURE!
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