GMAT Strategy

Hi All,

its been sometime since i have made any post. I had started GMAT very agressively. Studying, reading blogs and collecting lot of material.

However, eventually, i have collected so much material that i dont know, where to start from and what to and not to cover.

People say OG 10 & 11 are the best and ScoreTop and Kaplan 800 materail is also very good and should be used after your are through with your basics

So, almost every night i end up staring at my material and end up doing nothing

Hence, help me
SM

I know this feeling very well. I bought almost the entire GMAT collection available when I first studied and was overwhelmed by the 2 foot high pile of books I had. Can you tell me how you've been studying, what books you've covered, and how much time you have before your test?

Thanks for the prompt reply

I have following materail with me

- OG 10
- OG 11
- Kaplan 800
- Score Top Material
- Kaplan 2005
- Some chinese database questions
- 1000 SC, CR
- LSAT CR questions
- N numerous bits and pieces of questions

My test date happens to be 11Aug

Thanks.
SM

I have, in many other posts, mentioned the dangers of question sets that you find on the database and my opinion is that you should stay away from them with a 10 foot long pole. These include the chinese database questions and 1000 sets. You should work with material from solid sources that are well known. Even doing all the OG, PR, and Kaplan books should take you weeks (if you are studying in the correct manner). So my advice, throw the other stuff out.

Have you been studying for the past few weeks or are you just starting? Are you familiar with the question types and the strategies to attack each question type in CR, each in RC, each in SC, as well as how to do DS problems, etc?? Have you mastered these? If not, you may be missing some introductory books like PR GMAT and Kaplan GMAT.

Dear Mayonnai5e,

I have the same feelings with Surajsagi. I have been studying for longs and trying to go through those books I have. As a result, I feel new when I meet any problems that I've met before. I have more two months to practice. Could you show me how to improve? Which books should I practice? I have Craking Gmat 2007, Kaplan 800, Master the Gmat...

Thank you very much.

maria

Please see my last post in my blog here:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/my-blog-erro ... html#44460

Mayonnai5e, thank you for your useful post. I know which books I should befriend now.

All in a day's work. Good luck!