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by aleph777 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:06 am
I feel like a lot of you have jobs, and I'm sure many of you have had to travel for work in the midst of studying. I'm leaving town on business for nearly a week, and I'm in the final few weeks of study before I take the exam. While I can't bring my whole library of GMAT resources, I need to bring the things that would be most beneficial!

I've gone through pretty much everything in the OG already, but haven't even tapped into my supplemental quant and verbal, so I'm thinking I should bring those two smaller books. Definitely all my flashcards.... Anything else?? I have the whole MGMAT series, and maybe I should bring one of the books covering topics I feel weakest in, but I can't think of anything else that's really make or break.

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by rishi raj » Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:59 am
Apart from taking along the books of the topics you think you need to improve on, I'd not really take much alongwith me. For example, if you think you're weak in SC or need to revise CR, take only those books. Taking a lot of books will not be helpful.Take this as an opportunity to unwind for sometime .You'll see your performance increase once you come back into the GMAT mode after a hiatus of one week.
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by aleph777 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:01 am
That's an interesting, thought, too. Just give my mind some time to digest everything.... Could be a solid approach. Thanks, Rishi.
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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:51 am
Hey Aleph,

You know, those OG supplemental volumes ought to hold you for just a week, and they're pretty conveniently-sized for travel, too, so that's not a bad way to go. As I've been a huge proponent of "quality over quantity" study, I might even take this as a great opportunity to spend your downtime really breaking down those problems in those books as opposed to trying to balance a great number of resources. If you give yourself, say, an hour to do 30 problems and then 30 minutes to analyze what you can learn from them, that's a pretty good use of time if you've already been studying so much up to this point. Self-analysis is going to take you a lot further than "reading more".

Just a few other thoughts on travel resources since you brought it up - Veritas Prep has a free iPhone application that gives you access to a couple hundred practice questions on your phone, and our books are also available on Kindle and iPad (so you can even decide from the road to pick one up if you're short of study resources or in need of some subject-specific guidance). And obviously Beat the GMAT is available wherever you can grab some internet access, so you should have some convenient GMAT access from the road even if you don't bring hard-copy books...
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by aleph777 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:55 am
Thanks, Brian. The quality over quantity point is definitely key, so it might be best not to overpack and feel obligated to really push through everything. Getting more intimate with some of the problems could definitely help!
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