GMAT Strategy

Hello Oxfordbound,
Have you already done all of the OG questions by topic area once? In general I think that it's best to go through all of the OG questions at least twice before worrying to much about practice tests. For me, I learned better by rotating through all of the subjects several times. It sounds like you are at the stage of learning where you know the material, but it just doesn't come to you very fast. The best solution for this is to do a lot of problems until you really have the material down and can recall information quickly. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to go back through the Manhattan guides if you don't remember some of the techniques, but once you have the general methods down you need to put them into practice- again, and again.

Once you feel comfortable doing questions in two minutes and have fairly good accuracy, then I would say that it's time to start taking more tests. I think students often focus too much on trying to do better on practice tests before they really have the material down, which in turn makes them depressed and less productive later on.

How are you doing on the verbal section?

Cheers
Dan