hi everyone Erina here i work alongside Chris at Magoosh and while Chris is
filming another video for your viewing pleasure
i'm here today to talk to you about the whiteboard for your gmat online exam
if you're watching this video it likely means you'll be taking your online gmat
sometime soon before we jump into any tips and
tricks i wanted to say that i am very proud of you studying can be
difficult in and of itself and studying during a pandemic makes
that even more difficult so by scheduling your exam and by
studying as hard as you can you're taking a huge step forward
in accomplishing your goals and i'm very proud of you
okay well now we got all the mushy stuff out of the way
let's jump into the gmat whiteboard tips and tricks so
unless you've been in a cryogenic box for the last three months you've
probably heard of covid 19 which shut down a lot of the in-person gmat exams
thankfully gmac the test creator was able to create a digital version
of the exam and originally gmac only allowed for a digital whiteboard
thankfully they have recanted and reconsidered their stamps to allow for
physical whiteboards so now test takers may
use either the physical whiteboard an online whiteboard
or the a combination of the two on gmat test day so
let's first get into the physical whiteboard
the physical whiteboard may only be 12 by 20 inches max or 30 by 50 centimeters
for my friends who use the metric system and the whiteboard itself may only have
a white background it may not have any grid pattern or anything else like it
and test takers are allowed to dry erase pens and one mark
one eraser so i have an eraser at the end of
one of my markers um you may not have any napkins or tissues
so if you don't have an eraser i hope you plan on wearing a shirt you don't
care about to erase your board and those are the
limitations for the physical whiteboard regarding the
digital whiteboard that is provided for online gmat test takers is a really
basic set of features that you might expect from
a basic image editing or creation program it's got a pen tool a
shape creation tool a text box zooming in and out redo undo
but what's really important to know is that on test day
this whiteboard opens in a new window and it hovers
and stays above your gmat questions but it does resize um and it also does
hold on to or save the equations that you may have typed in
or any figures that you may have drawn um but it's also important to know that
you may not use a touchscreen screen to draw in the
whiteboard may only use your laptop trackpad or a
wired mouse to get this to work okay so we talked about the limitations
of the digital and the physical whiteboards now let's
get into some tips and tricks tip number one is to practice with the
digital and physical whiteboard prior to test
day you want to be familiar with all of the
limitations and the features of both of the
tools prior to the exam you definitely don't want to add onto a stressful
situation by not knowing how to
pan around the screen if you're using the digital whiteboard
i instinctively reach for my laptop's trackpad to zoom in and out and i was
disappointed to find that it didn't work and that i needed to spend more time
practicing with the panning tool so definitely practice
during your practice exams or your practice lessons
so that you feel comfortable using these tools and
you don't have to feel stressed by learning how to use
other tools during the exam tip number two
it seems obvious but if you don't already have a physical whiteboard
please order it prior to your exam day definitely
don't want to order one and not have one or be anxious about it arriving on time
i also really recommend purchasing more dry erase markers than you might
need just in case some of them arrive with low ink or you
end up utilizing your markers a lot while practicing and then
go to take your exam and then don't have enough ink in them and you run out of
ink during the middle of a question so purchase
your whiteboard in advance and maybe buy more markers than you
think you might need tip number three if you're using the
digital and physical whiteboard in tandem
with each other i recommend utilizing the digital whiteboard to
hold on to information that you need to carry on over throughout questions or
sections because it saves information and then
only utilizing the whiteboard for really quick calculations
or information that you're willing to erase
tip number four if you don't want to mess around with panning and zooming in
and out we recommend clearing the whiteboard after each
question the downfall is that you won't have access to any previous work that
you've created but at the very least you're not having
to finagle with any of the features and you're really just you have a clean
slate each time all right so those are our tips and
tricks i hope that what we compiled for you today
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i hope you're well thanks