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How solving 10,000 practice problems got me a 99th percentile GMAT score

When I took the GMAT to get into Harvard, I read this study on how to do well on standardized tests. And they had this graph, and it went like this: the more problems you did, on average, the higher your test score was.

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    Abschnitt 1 When I took the GMAT to get into Harvard, I read this study on how to do well on standardized tests.
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    Abschnitt 2 >> It will eventually.

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0:00When I took the GMAT to get into Harvard, I read this study on how to do well on standardized tests. And they had this graph, and it went like this: the more problems you did, on average, the higher your test score was. So, I bought 16 phone books. Like, they're like these thick like test prep books. And I did 4 hours of problems every day for 3 months. And then I scored 99.something percentile because it was just input-output. I was naturally not even that good at math, but I just was like, if I do 10,000 [ __ ] problems, like, I'll start to just understand how these problems get asked. For me, that's what gives me the confidence to say like, "What if it's not working?"

0:30>> It will eventually. Like, if we just keep doing it, it will work.