!! GMAT Study Plan: Please Evaluate !!

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!! GMAT Study Plan: Please Evaluate !!

by mohitlove » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:59 am
Hi

"Apologies for such a long post"

I'm a avid reader of Beat the GMAT (and would like to thanks Eric for this) and in the past 6-7 months of my reading the content I have develop a study plan for myself and would request the members to review the same and provide there valuable feedbacks.

But before I put forth the plan I would like to give a bit dip of my profile.

Work Ex: 5.6 years (3 years in banking and 2.6 years as part of treasury of one of the top 5 fortune 500 companies.)

Education: Graduate with 50% Marks, Executive MBA from one of the top B-Schools in India (60%) and post that underwent a finance certification from one of tier 1 B-schools in India, (also have few more education certificate to my name).

Other: Part of various intra-school and intra-college debates and quizzes, also active member to some NGOs and undertake By-monthly fund raising for them. Various professional awards and part of numerous strategic implementation projects.

Target B-schools and Target GMAT Score:

B-schools

1. Cass business school
2. Imperial
3. Manchester
4. National University of Singapore
5. Cranfield School of Management
6. Lancaster university.
7. Nanyang Business school: Singapore.

Score: 650-700.

Cass and imperial being the preferred one.

As I'm really week in my math's and it's been really long time I touch based with it, I have created the below plan and resources I'll put in its execution.

I'll start off with MGMAT Foundation of GMAT & Verbal Strategy supplement, then move on to Kaplan GMAT math and verbal workbook.

Once concepts are refreshed I'll move to the MGMAT books the 8 guides and then close the plan with the three official guides (1 main and the two supplements)

I'll use the below two books as my admission guide:

1. mbaMission Complete Start-to-Finish Admissions Guide.
2. MBA Admissions Strategy: From Profile Building to Essay Writing.

I would request the members and experts to review the same and provide there valuable feedback.

Thanks

Kind Regards
Mohit love
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by prateek_guy2004 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:02 am
Seems like u know it all.....Well very nice stratergy and would say nice choice in selection of resources .... Just want to say that devote as much time as you can....make learning fun....dont get stressed and try to give urself time after every new thing ull learn...

To check urself practice mock tests in between...

Let me know howz ur practice goin on....

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by FutureWorks » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:26 am
Hi Mohit

Juggling between work and studies is tough so you need to define a significant time for your GMAT preparation. Sometimes taking few days off work for preparing for the GMAT can help a person tremendously. If you have time this may not be a bad idea. Take practise GMAT tests to see how you are doing. If you cannot do that don't worry. What might work instead is to set aside 1-2 hours at night on weekdays and major part of your weekend to study and prepare for GMAT- in this case we will suggest a good 2-3 months preparation. However we recommend you to keep taking practise tests to gauge your performance. It will help you in identifying your weak areas and you can focus on them accordingly.

There are various ways you can use to practise for your GMAT. You might need to change your practise style and try this combination to provide you flexibility and different styles to practise so it doesn't get monotonous.

It could be combination of-

1-Books- Books like- The Official Guide for GMAT Review, The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review, The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review etc could be used.

2-Online Study Guide: Websites like Knewton, Grockit etc provide you with practise questions online.

3-Smart phone applications- Kaplan, Veritas etc offer applications to prepare for GMAT on your smart phones.

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by lunarpower » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:38 am
i received a pm regarding this thread.

i'm not an expert on admissions or on specific business schools, so i can't really give an informed opinion about the specific schools that you've mentioned.

as far as your stated plan, my only real objection is that it's not a good idea to wait on the OG's until after you have finished the entire strategy guides. the strategy guides contain listings of OG problems by category -- arranged according to the categories in the chapters themselves -- so you should take advantage of those lists to do some subject-specific practice.

one possible suggestion:
* after you review a chapter in one of the strategy guides, try doing about half of the problems in the following OG lists.
* then, after you have finished the strategy guides, go back through the lists and complete the OG problems that you didn't do after each chapter.

otherwise -- good luck.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.

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