GMAT Strategy

GCHall840 wrote:I thought about what other people have been saying about how many hours a day and per week that you should spend studying for the test. I also thought about when I first started my MGMAT online course where I was actually spending anywhere from 20 to 25 hours a week on that material. However, after about two weeks of doing things that way, I knew that studying that many hours a week was not working for me. In fact, I got behind not only because I couldn't finish all of the assigned material, but also because my work schedule had changed a lot, too. It became very difficult to keep up with the class material and work as well.

I think that I also became burned out on doing my prep work because I had not come up with a workable time schedule that took everything that I was doing into account. Instead, I only did what was assigned every week in that class so as not to get myself any more tired than I already was. It is true that I finally have found a happy medium where I study only 90 minutes at a time with no more than about 4 hours a day when I am not working. I limit myself to 2 hours a day when I am working. I do take one whole day off every week now. At the same time, there have been the days where I just didn't have the energy to do very much studying at all. On those kinds of days, I spend about 2 hours maximum. Perfect study schedules look very nice on paper, but in real life, things don't always work out perfectly like they did on paper, either.

Greg