Shift in Gmat strategy?????

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Shift in Gmat strategy?????

by c210 » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:06 pm
Hey everyone, need your expert opinions on gmat strategy shift i might need.

so far have had 8 weeks of prep and 4 weeks to go till my test date.

using the 8 mgmat strategy guides and the OG 12 and OG math / OG verbal books along with the Powerscore CR

so far I have covered all the exercise for book 1-5 on the mgmat ( quant topics)
then completed book 6 ( sentence correction) and the Powerscore CR bible.

practice test
1. mgmat 460 -pre-week 1
2. mgmat 530 - end of week 4
3. mgmat 650 - end of week 5
4. GMAT prep 1- 590 end of week 7

as you can all see i dropped 70 points!!! on my first GMAT prep test which i feel was due to a terrible outing on my quant side.

my plan was to complete the last verbal mgmat book by this week ( end of week 8 ) ( critical reasoning).
then spend the last 4 weeks taking 4 more practice tests and drilling all the answers i got wrong on my OG 12 error log. and also spending a day on tactics to tackle the 2 essays.

what do you guys think?

I am considering dropping the last critical reasoning study guide and starting my "error log" review in advance instead since i feel CR is my strong point is that a bad idea? this should give me more time to go over OG 12 problems.

Also thinking of avoiding the OG quant/ OG verbal due to time ....are these books crucial? My goal is a 700

any other tweaks you guys think i should do?

best,

c
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