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Btw, I printed the flashcards today. I remain skeptical of their value but I'll likely give them a chance. They seem to have many fans.

Good luck with the re-take. I used the flashcards on the morning of the test to review stuff. I found it useful in that sense but I had a good under-standing of the topics and fundamentals by that stage so that helped immensely.

Reag,

can you please post question no.s of the difficult questions from OG11 ? I guess, it would helps us to figure out, which ones are the toughest and needs to be concentrated more upon.

Thanks.

I'm guessing that document from Princeton is copyrighted so no, I won't do that.

However, I've seen a few comments in this forum mentioning that the last 100 problems in each OG section are the more difficult ones.

Finally, further to my retake strategy, I went ahead and bought the Manhattan question banks and challenge problems. I realized it is unrealistic that I will be lugging the orange OG book everywhere I go and need some web-driven practice problems to fill the gaps.

I have gone ahead and scheduled my retake for March 10th. Scheduling the test makes my retake plan very real and now forces me to stay in test prep mode. Time now to execute the plan.

For me, the test has to be scheduled in order for there to be sufficient motivation to study. What attitudes do other test takers have?

For the past two weeks I have focused on reviewing OG 11.

I'm about 350 problems (out of ~800) into my complete OG 11 review and am starting to gain more confidence in my weaker areas. I realize now that I should have done this review prior to my first test. I am noting all misses or particularly tough ones for subsequent future review.

I am also finding the Manhattan OG timer to be useful. So all of my OG question blocks are being timed and I am rarely spending more than 1:50 on any question (and ~1:00 on SC questions). I'm hoping that this timing discipline pays off.

Just an update on my study progress in prep for my retake.

I am about 80% done with my first full pass through OG. I have been using the Manhattan OG timer for all questions. The other day I spent what felt like an eternity on two math questions before guessing and moving on. I expected the time to report afterwards that I blew 4:00 minutes on each but was pleased to discover I only wasted 2:45 each. This tells me I am becoming much more pace-aware. Am currently averaging under 2 minutes for each question, easily. And under my target of 90 seconds for each SC question.

In the past week I have also started to review the Manhattan SC guide as I am aware of a weakness in that area.

Since my first official gmat on Feb 2, I ave taken 3 MGMAT practice tests, always timed to simulate the real thing:

MGMAT1 on feb9: 630 42Q 34V
MGMAT2 on feb17: 610 40Q 34V
MGMAT3 on feb24: 690 44Q 39V *

* I tried something new on the MGMAT3 test of feb 24. In my OG practice for Quant problems I have been making grids with about 20 squares on each piece of paper. This provides a neat little space to work out each problem, planned in advance. I believe this is helping me to be more organized in my quant execution and I think this helped me on the MGMAT3 test. In all prior tests, including the PR, GMATPrep and actual GMAT, I used no grid and would scribble and scratch up about five sides of paper. This time on MGMAT3, with the grid, I only used up a page and a half. Seemed way easier. That, and I'd like to think OG practice is paying off. One more thing - I finished MGMAT3 quant and verbal sections each with a few minutes to spare -- this was a new and unique experience that I would like to repeat. Much better than rushing and guessing on a few questions as time expires.

Regarding the retake, I am still holding onto a March 10 test date. However, I expect I'll need 2-3 more weeks after that to complete my review of OG, along with revisiting missed problems of which I expect there will be about 50-100 total. I would also like to take two more MGMAT tests to see if I can continue to see some improvement before retesting. So I'll probably reschedule the official retake in the the next day or two for later on in March or early April.

I have not looked much at the flashcards though I have printed them -- should I not pass go and do that right away?

I finally completed my full first pass through all problems in OG 11. I am excited to reach this point. It took about 25 days at an hour or two each night after work.

I took all OG 11 problems under timed conditions with a target of 2 minutes for each problem except SC where I targeted 1:30 for each. For RC I spent 3-4 minutes reading the passage and about 1 minute per RC question.

In all, I had a total of 154 wrong answers (included are several I got right but that I deemed took me too long). I am retaking these 154 problems this week, timed of course. I wish the overall number was lower but it's a good starting point for the next phase of my prep.

Breakdown of my wrong and correct-but-too-slow results in OG 11:
- Quant Problem Solving - 60 misses out of 249 total
- Quant Data Sufficiency - 36 misses out of 155 total
- Verbal Reading Comprehension - 20 misses out of 141 total
- Verbal Critical Reasoning - 19 misses out of 124 total
- Verbal Sentence Correction - 19 misses out of 138 total

Quant: 96 misses out of 404 total or ~76% correct
Verbal: 58 misses out of 403 total or ~86% correct

My current plan:
1. complete all review of the misses above by this Friday.
2. Continue using the flashcards a little bit daily (yes, I'm using them and I like).
3. Continue reading Manhattan SC
4. Take MGMAT 4 on March 8th
5. Take MGMAT 5 on March 15th
6. Take Official GMAT retake on March 22nd

Onward!

Tips or feedback?

reag-
very encouraging postings. I'm in your same boat. I took the GMAT two weeks ago and scored 570. I had scored 730 on GMATPrep only weeks prior. I've studied a lot on my own and don't feel the need for a course before I retake. I'm going to a similar program as you (OG 11 Boot Camp!).

Can you advise, where can I purchase Manhattan Question Bank, and gain access to Manhattan OG Timer?

Thanks

"OG 11 Boot Camp" -- I think that describes what I just went through. As for the Manhattan OG Timer, I think you can unlock that with purchase of the MGMAT tests. Remember, buy one of their books and you get the tests included. See manhattangmat.com for more info. I bought the SC book via amazon.com, btw. When all is said and done, the challenge questions and questions banks will likely end up useless to me. I don't see where they fit into my study plan.

To follow-up on my last post regarding my OG 11 progress, this past week I worked to complete (and get correct at least once under timed conditions) all OG 11 questions. It took 3 rounds of retaking some missed questions before I got them right. The following summary shows how I missed some questions 2-3 times before understanding the mechanics and getting them right.

1st round of taking each question timed:
Quant: 96 misses out of 404 total or ~76% correct
Verbal: 58 misses out of 403 total or ~86% correct

2nd round of timed review of missed 1st round problems:
Quant: 32 misses out of 96 total or ~66% correct
Verbal: 20 misses out of 58 total or ~66% correct

3rd round of timed review of missed 2nd round problems:
Quant: 7 misses out of 32 total or ~78% correct
Verbal: 4 misses out of 20 total or ~80% correct

4th round of timed review of missed 3rd round problems:
Quant: 0 misses out of 7 total or ~100% correct
Verbal: 0 misses out of 4 total or ~100% correct

Through yesterday I had also made 1 full review pass through my BeattheGMAT flashcards (they rock!), and I am about halfway through Manhattan SC book, which I will continue with this week, along with review missed questions in MGMAT4, which I took today.

MGMAT4 on mar9: 700 47Q 38V finished both sections with two minutes to spare, which is how I want to do it on my retake.

My current plan as of today:
1. complete all review of the MGMAT4 misses above by Tuesday.
2. Continue using the flashcards a little bit daily.
3. Continue reading Manhattan SC
5. Take MGMAT 5 on March 15th.
6. Take Official GMAT retake on March 22nd.

full speed ahead.