【经验分享】 考试的时候pace跟不上怎么办？看看下面给你的答案吧~
做CAT时落后于既定Pace，怎么办？我在Manhattan丛书分册《Manhattan0 Roadmap》里看到了权威的解读，希望给大家帮助。
首先我们要明白GMAT评分方法，在《Manhattan0 Roadmap》里我看到了一个绝佳的比喻，将CAT考试比作登山，考试开始时，我们在半山腰(<50 percentile)，做对一道题，往上爬一点；做错一道题，或许原地不动，或许往下退一点。越往上爬，题目越难。如果你对一道、错一道，就是停留在同一个高度；如果对的比错的多，那整体的轨迹就是往上爬。直到最后一道题，我们所处的高度即是percentile。
到达山顶不需要你每一步都往上爬，即便停歇或走过回头路，仍然可以达到山顶。
因此我们要摆脱十多年来养成的怕做错题的心理，要坦然地接受错题即GMAT的一部分的事实。考740和540的人或许正确率都在70%，但前者是在750-760难度的题目中对错各一半，后者是在550-560难度的题目中对错各一半。
也就是说，分数与错题数量没有关系。
《Manhattan0 Roadmap》 Page214: A person who leaves the GMAT with a totally awesome 740 score is someone who spent half the test failing at 750- and 760- level problems.
连续做错题，不管是在考试中期还是最后几道题，同样会让我们的Percentile大幅度下跌。然而分散地错题，就不会大幅下跌。
《OG13》 Page17右边小方框:Verbal部分剩下5道题没做，会从91percentile降到77percentile
这就告诉我们Pace的重要性，下面几句摘自《Manhattan0 Roadmap》
发现pace跟不上的时候，我们应该找一道难题，在30秒内判断出这题不怎好做，立马选一个走人；这样我们就能用小成本追回1.5~2分钟的pace；如果还落后于pace，隔几道题再碰到难题时，再用同样的方法；Manhattan建议连续错题最好不要>2。
我们要保证会做的题要做对；如果我们为了追赶pace而加快每道题，心情会急躁，很容易做错本该做对的题；
有一位750分的美国人分享经验说：他每次考试都随机性、看都不看地分散地蒙5道题；
在做练习题时，若因粗心大意做错了一道题，则应思考如何避免再次犯错；若因为题目太难而做错一道题，则应思考如何才能让自己更快地做错这道题；耗1分钟和耗3分钟，都是错，那么耗3分钟就太不值得了；
考试中我们蒙的这道题，本身有有1/5的概率蒙对、1/5~1/4的概率是不计分的测试题、再排除一些most，never等绝对的字眼，同时能赢回pace，放松心态，总要比顶着压力，每道题加快15秒 做4个才能赚回1分钟的方法要强吧。
看到回复中很多战友惊异于这种方法，我将原文截取一些复制在这里《Manhattan0 Roadmap》 Page164
You are going to need to sacrifice something in order to get back on track; you don’t have a choice about
that. You do have a choice about what you sacrifice. Don’t sacrifice problems in your fast and accurate
areas. Don’t tell yourself that you’ll do this question 30 seconds faster because you already know how to
do it, so you can just speed up. You’re risking a careless mistake on a question that you know how to get
right, plus you re going to have to do that on several questions to make up the two minutes that you’re
behind, so you’re really giving yourself a chance to miss multiple questions that you know how to do.
Instead, the very next time you see a question that you know is a weakness of yours, skip it. Make an
immediate, random guess and move on. There—youve only sacrificed one question, and it was a weakness
anyway. Depending upon the question type and how quickly you moved on, you saved anywhere
from a little under one minute to a little under two minutes. If that’s enough to catch back up, great.
If not, repeat this behavior until you are caught back up. On average, don’t skip
more than one question out of every five. Don’t worry if you see two “big weakness”
questions in a row, though. Maybe you got lucky and got that first one right.
Maybe one is an experimental. Even if they both count, getting two wrong in a
row won’t kill your score—you can recover because you still have more questions
to come—and you’re unlikely to have gotten them right anyway.
总之，我从Manhattan0- Road Map受益颇多。我把整本书都打印了出来，坐地铁，等人的时候，翻一翻，两周就看完了，包括随记了些重点。
推荐大家也看一下。里面不仅有考试策略，还有如何控制压力、对英语非母语的人的建议、考完GMAT该做什么等等。 |
