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bpolley00
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Hey Everyone,
Looking for a Gmat Expert to critique my study plan for the last month of my studying and my general situation. I understand your time is very valuable; however, if you get a second I would really appreciate your time and effort to respond to this post. With that being said, here is what I have been doing and what my general plan is going forward.
Background: I scored a 660 Sunday with a 47 in Quant and a 34 in verbal on GMATPREP. My mistakes in quant were generally things I understood; however, that I had misread or made minor errors costing me a question. In regards to verbal, I missed an assortment of random questions from all three categories and my timing was rushed on the last 4 questions. I have approximately one month left of studying and have been studying for about 2- 2.5 months now.
Background of what I have been doing: I watched all the Thursday with Ron videos and have implemented them in my game plan. Kudos to Ron for doing those for free, they are extremely helpful and he obviously does not have to do that. I am Not even attempting to study combination/ Permutation questions as those will be my throw out questions during the exam and I feel that my attention to other questions would be more logical as I find Combination and permutation type of questions especially difficult to grasp and too time consuming. Currently I am taking a week off as my brain feels fried and Ron has recommended that after a good amount of studying you need to take awhile off. I have read/ outlined the Manhattan books except reading comp, Completed roughly 3/4 of each category in Gmat, timing my questions and doing roughly 30 a day and then trying to look for a general take away to add to my compilation of notes. Or if there is a tough question that I did not understand I will add it to a list of questions that were relatively tough so that I can review them.
My General Strategy going forward: I am going to study probably 2-3 hours Monday-Wednesday and 4-5 hours Saturday and Sunday, taking Thursday and Friday off. I think it would be logical to spend the first week back doing pure review, going over my rules and getting my mind back into the mindset of knowing all the rules and some of the more difficult questions. In addition, I just bought the advanced Gmat quant book and was wondering if this would be worth going through at this point in order to increase my quant to 50. For the second week, I figured I would focus all on verbal, and then the last two weeks I would do a combination, with the first hour or so math and then Verbal in the last part as that is how the test is structured and I want my brain to do the verbal after doing math.I am planning to take a few Manhattan tests the week of the test and the second gmat prep practice two days out. The day of the test I was considering warming up on maybe 10 questions of each section and review my notes a final time.
Does this sound like a logical plan?
Are there any suggestions in getting verbal from 34 to 40?
Do you think I should at least learn the basics of combination/ Permutations?
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post and hopefully provide a thorough response! Also, please ignore any grammatical errors as it is quite late here and I am exhausted as I am writing this.
Sincerely,
Brian
Looking for a Gmat Expert to critique my study plan for the last month of my studying and my general situation. I understand your time is very valuable; however, if you get a second I would really appreciate your time and effort to respond to this post. With that being said, here is what I have been doing and what my general plan is going forward.
Background: I scored a 660 Sunday with a 47 in Quant and a 34 in verbal on GMATPREP. My mistakes in quant were generally things I understood; however, that I had misread or made minor errors costing me a question. In regards to verbal, I missed an assortment of random questions from all three categories and my timing was rushed on the last 4 questions. I have approximately one month left of studying and have been studying for about 2- 2.5 months now.
Background of what I have been doing: I watched all the Thursday with Ron videos and have implemented them in my game plan. Kudos to Ron for doing those for free, they are extremely helpful and he obviously does not have to do that. I am Not even attempting to study combination/ Permutation questions as those will be my throw out questions during the exam and I feel that my attention to other questions would be more logical as I find Combination and permutation type of questions especially difficult to grasp and too time consuming. Currently I am taking a week off as my brain feels fried and Ron has recommended that after a good amount of studying you need to take awhile off. I have read/ outlined the Manhattan books except reading comp, Completed roughly 3/4 of each category in Gmat, timing my questions and doing roughly 30 a day and then trying to look for a general take away to add to my compilation of notes. Or if there is a tough question that I did not understand I will add it to a list of questions that were relatively tough so that I can review them.
My General Strategy going forward: I am going to study probably 2-3 hours Monday-Wednesday and 4-5 hours Saturday and Sunday, taking Thursday and Friday off. I think it would be logical to spend the first week back doing pure review, going over my rules and getting my mind back into the mindset of knowing all the rules and some of the more difficult questions. In addition, I just bought the advanced Gmat quant book and was wondering if this would be worth going through at this point in order to increase my quant to 50. For the second week, I figured I would focus all on verbal, and then the last two weeks I would do a combination, with the first hour or so math and then Verbal in the last part as that is how the test is structured and I want my brain to do the verbal after doing math.I am planning to take a few Manhattan tests the week of the test and the second gmat prep practice two days out. The day of the test I was considering warming up on maybe 10 questions of each section and review my notes a final time.
Does this sound like a logical plan?
Are there any suggestions in getting verbal from 34 to 40?
Do you think I should at least learn the basics of combination/ Permutations?
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post and hopefully provide a thorough response! Also, please ignore any grammatical errors as it is quite late here and I am exhausted as I am writing this.
Sincerely,
Brian
