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mbawire · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject: Please Critique my GMAT gameplan

Hi,

I'm planning to take the GMAT for the 1st time in 3 months or so. I have made a plan based on experiences I read across the web, but one week into my study plan, I still have a few questions I hope I can have answered here.
Here is a quick summary of my plan:

- Here is a list of books I have: OG 11th edition, Kaplan Premier Program 2008, Kaplan GMAT 800 and Kaplan GMAT Math Workbook.
- Target each section for 1 or 2 weeks, reserve 2 weeks to do all at once before the real test.
- Put in 4-6hrs during the week, 8-10 on weekends (A bit tough with my work schedule but doing my best).
- Do 10 questions each day of sections I am not actively working on but studied before.
- Do 2 weeks on each section, but 1 week only on my 2 best verbal sections (4 weeks for quant first then 4 weeks for verbal total).
- Do 40 questions at once with 80 mins on the clock for pacing, keeping an excel sheet to track my answers wether they where right or wrong, and wether I was slow, careless or if I made a concept error (I got the idea from this forum so I'm sure you know what I'm referring to).
- I also keep track of hit rates on any given 40-question run.
- I plan to keep a error log of questions I failed and go through them the final 2 weeks.
- I write flashcards.

I plan to take a test at the end of each week:
Week 1: OG Diagnostic test
Week 2: Kaplan paper test
Week 3: Kaplan online test
Week 4: GPrep #1 from mba.com
Week 5: Kaplan CD test 1
Week 6: Kaplan CD test 2
Week 7: Kaplan CD test 3
Week 8: Kaplan CD test 4
Week 9: GPrep #2 from mba.com

I worked out this plan reading a bit this forum. My question are:

- I mostly read that focusing on a test section for a given time is best, but how effective is it to take to take tests if you havent starting working on some sections yet?
- For each sections I do all OG questions first, then Kaplan Premier, then Kaplan 800. Should I do OG last?
- I scheduled GPrep tests at the end of week 2 and 9. Since it is said they are the best indicators of GMAT scores I thought doing each at the beginning then end of my study plan would be good, but I am questioning that now. I may switch GPrep test #1 with Any thoughts?

I realize I might be asking a lot, but any comment would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

hk · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:20 am Post subject:

Nice gameplan. I liked your blog too. If you wanna check out my gameplan and my prep so far, feel free to visit my blog.

Good luck with your preps..

mbawire · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:51 am Post subject:

Cheers!

I looked at your blog but I couldnt download your gmat gameplan so I dont know what it looks like. Any comment on mine? Also, I saw you did GPrep #1 already, have you practiced all sections before that?

hk · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:58 am Post subject:

I took my GMATPrep 1 after 1 week of learning and scored miserably.. I was expecting that but i just wanted to know my weakness. I took one yesterday and have improved on my verbal.. From 60 percentile in Verbal to 80 percentile..!!!

But i dont know why you couldn't download my gameplan.. Question

Yup your gameplan is good. But try to point one topic where you are weak and try to focus more on that. Coz in GMAT every topic is important to get a good score..

All the best bud !!!

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