Home Viewpoints B-School How to use POE effectively? Friday, 05 December 2008
             
How to use POE effectively? PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 21 April 2008 08:13
In response to my earlier post on CR, Prachi & Vikas suggested me to always use POE in Verbal section of GMAT. If I remember correctly, even Tranquil suggests this in his blog. I too identified this as one of the areas of improvement in CR, but I don"t like the idea of drawing answer grid on the erasable answer sheets. This affects my speed and sometimes confuses me if I miss marking one question. I need to check the question number on the computer screen and then make entry (POE) under the right row/column.

So, I adopted this trick in a different way. While reading the SC/CR/RC, I just mark "N" for the answer choices that are surely WRONG ones and mark "K" for the answer choices that, I think, could be RIGHT answer choice. The advantage of this method is that I can mark this anywhere. I don"t worry about the question number or row/column on the answer grid. All I need to ensure that I don"t move my pen/marker from the place where I"m writing. I have been practicing this for the last one week. This seems to be working..!!

My POE entry on the answer sheet for any question would look like "NKKNN". This means the answer choices have narrowed down to B & C. Read the answer choices B and C again, identify the correct one, and move on.

So far so good..!! If you think this is a good approach, or you use some other approach that you find helpful and don"t mind sharing the trick, Please leave a comment here.

Comments
Discuss Viewpoint
Title: (optional)
[b] [i] [u] [url] [quote] [code] [img] 
 
Receive update notifications?

3.23 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."
 

MBAA Poll

Via the Interest Rate, what can the Federal Reserve Affect?
 

Quotes

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it. - Lee Iacocca

Visit Sponsors

Your are currently browsing this site with Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).

Your current web browser must be updated to version 7 of Internet Explorer (IE7) to take advantage of all of template's capabilities.

Why should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7? Microsoft has redesigned Internet Explorer from the ground up, with better security, new capabilities, and a whole new interface. Many changes resulted from the feedback of millions of users who tested prerelease versions of the new browser. The most compelling reason to upgrade is the improved security. The Internet of today is not the Internet of five years ago. There are dangers that simply didn't exist back in 2001, when Internet Explorer 6 was released to the world. Internet Explorer 7 makes surfing the web fundamentally safer by offering greater protection against viruses, spyware, and other online risks.

Get free downloads for Internet Explorer 7, including recommended updates as they become available. To download Internet Explorer 7 in the language of your choice, please visit the Internet Explorer 7 worldwide page.