BREAKING: Target Test Prep releases Brand New 2026 On Demand GMAT prep course

Redeem

1 month to go until test day - how should I spend it?

This topic has expert replies
Post new topic Post Reply
Previous Topic Next Topic
Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
Posts: 12
Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:31 pm

1 month to go until test day - how should I spend it?

by pcmdotcom » Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:55 pm
Hello,

I have one month left until the test day. I have gone through and practiced the following:

MGMAT 5 books for quantitative
PowerScore for CR
MGMAT for SC
MGMAT for RC
ALL GMATprepnow vidoes

MGMAT CAT 1: 580 (Q 48 percentile, V 60 percentile) , that I took before starting my Prep for GMAT.
MGMAT question bank for Quant and Verbal

OG 13 - ALL questions (quant and verbal)

I have been studying for it for the last 3 months.

Can anyone please let me know what's the best way to spend my last month until the test day? I have 2 hours after work each day, plus two full days on the weekend.
Honestly speaking,I have had ample practice with the Quant but not as much with the Verbal. Please let me know what's the best way to practice for verbal as well.


Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Top
Source: — GMAT Strategy |

GMAT/MBA Expert

User avatar
GMAT Instructor
Posts: 16207
Joined: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:26 pm
Location: Vancouver, BC
Thanked: 5254 times
Followed by:1268 members
GMAT Score:770

by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:46 am
The GMAT is a test of your math and verbal skills AND it's a test of your test-taking skills. So, taking several practice tests is an important part of your prep. This will help you build your test-taking skills, and it will help you identify any remaining area(s) of weakness.

While analyzing your practice tests, there are four main types of weakness to watch out for:
1. specific Quant skills/concepts (e.g., algebra, standard deviation, etc.)
2. specific Verbal skills/concepts (e.g., verb tenses, assumption CR questions, etc.)
3. test-taking skills (time management, endurance, anxiety etc.)
4. silly mistakes

For the first two weaknesses, the fix is pretty straightforward. Learn the concept/skill and find some practice questions to strengthen that weakness. To focus on one topic at a time, you can use BTG's tagging feature to isolate one concept. For example, here are all of the questions tagged as statistics questions: https://www.beatthegmat.com/forums/tags/ ... statistics
See the left side of that linked page for more tag options.

If your test-taking skills are holding you back, then you need to work on these. For example, we have a free GMAT time management video at https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gener ... es?id=1244.

Finally, if silly mistakes are hurting your score, then it's important that you identify and categorize these mistakes so that, during tests, you can easily spot situations in which you're prone to making errors. I write about this and other strategies in the following article for BTG: https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/09/ ... n-the-gmat

Cheers,
Brent
Brent Hanneson - Creator of GMATPrepNow.com
Image
Top
Post new topic Post Reply
• Page 1 of 1