GMAT Strategy

Hi All,

I went through the Kaplan material for SC strategies a month back and attempted those strategies on OG 11th edition. My accuracy was in the range of 60% to 65%.

Panic Round 1 set in.

Post that, I read the Manhattan SC Guide, a gem of a book. Attempted the OG 12th edition and OG Verbal Review. My accuracy is now in the range of 80% - 85%.

Panic Round 2 has set in!! My GMAT is scheduled for 11th May.

I have always gone back and checked the explanations for the questions that I made mistakes in and have revised the corresponding topics. What baffles me is that my mistakes are all over the place. My mistakes cannot be clustered to a topic.

I check my accuracies against sets of 20 questions. Is that the right way to do it?

How do I up my game from here on. Do I go through Manhattan again or do I get more practice? 1000SC perhaps? I have exhausted the OG material.

Please advise!!! Anybody!

Thanks,
maxpain - now in extreme pain

What has helped me is just going through the Manhattan Guide multiple times. Also, I look up any grammar rules that I don't know. Rather than simply focusing on identifying the errors, if there is a topic that I am consistently missing, I attempt to learn everything I can about the grammar rules on that subject.

Make a custom set of notecards for sentence correction questions that you frequently get wrong. This is the best way to go

be careful about SC1000

osirus0830 wrote:What has helped me is just going through the Manhattan Guide multiple times. Also, I look up any grammar rules that I don't know. Rather than simply focusing on identifying the errors, if there is a topic that I am consistently missing, I attempt to learn everything I can about the grammar rules on that subject.

GMATBootcamp wrote: Make a custom set of notecards for sentence correction questions that you frequently get wrong. This is the best way to go

Thanks guys, points well taken. Will post my progress after a week..

maxpain

money9111 wrote:be careful about SC1000

Thanks for the tip money9111....
But why so? Unreliable or not-GMAT like?

maxpain

from what i hear it's not GMAT-like

money9111 wrote:from what i hear it's not GMAT-like

I've exhausted the OG material. What other material would you suggest?

Thanks for your time money9111

maxpain

i picked up Kaplan 800...

money9111 wrote:i picked up Kaplan 800...

Thanks! Will try to lay my hands on it!

i have gone through that too but still missing 4-5 question in SC in gmat prep ....
what should i do ?