Day 3 - Word Problems and Geometry

It's a tough world. Now, even though I'm sure you know this already, this stupid fact keeps punching one in the face ever so often. As you can probably guess, I'm not very happy with my current GMAT prep situation.

Today I covered the remaining Word Problems section (on Percent, Ratio & Rates) and Lines, Angles and Triangles from Geometry. In all, pages 138 - 206 of Kaplan Math. I suffered from tremendous concentration issues early on in the day, but it kept on improving since. I tried to give my best to the General Word Problems test, yet landed up getting 4 answers wrong out of a total 40. All errors were due to mistakes in interpreting the question. I did not read the questions as well as I should have. Clearly, one needs to concentrate much harder for Word Problems. I'd like to repeat myself here, the hardest part of Word Problems is understanding and interpreting the question stem. Do not take this lightly. I felt like cursing myself after I reviewed my errors.

The Geometry I covered was pretty basic; nothing much to talk about really. I could've done more of it though, but for one long, unexpected phone call late at night. That ruined the rest of my study day, and I decided to quit rather than study without giving it my all.

Stupid Phone.

SUMMARY OF WORK
Kaplan Math - Word Problems Level Two and Geometry (part), pages 138 - 205

LESSONS LEARNT
1. Word Problems need to be read reeealy well.
2. As far as possible, don't keep a cellphone near you while studying.
3. Make time estimates better than me.