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by sieken » Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:32 pm
Hi All,

I'm really excited to start participating in the community here at beatthegmat.com. I've been a lurker for a while now, and I'm getting geared up.

I wanted to ask some advice: I picked up the 8 pack of Manhattan books, PR Cracking, All 3 OGs and the Kaplan 800. I'm currently taking the "completionist" approach by going through the Manhattan books two at a time (verbal and math) and after the first 4 chapters of quant and 3 chapters of verbal (books 1 and 6, numbers and critical reasoning), I'm pretty bored. I feel I know all this stuff already. I scored a 600 on my practice test.

Should I keep doing problems out of the other books and go back to Manhattan on the areas I get stuck at, or should I invest the month (hopefully less) in systematically working through Manhattan, then moving on to the problems?
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by arun@crackverbal » Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:14 am
Use just 1 set of books from 1 test prep company. The reason I am saying this that a lot of times the strategies might be different. So a PR cracking book and a MGMAT book might be radically different in their approach to (say) number properties. So remember the old adage about too many cooks spoiling the broth.

The 3 OG books with the MGMAT series should suffice at this point. My recommendation is to skip through them and take about 10 tests (6 MGMAT + 4 GMATPrep) over the next 2 months. That way you have a test every weekend. Something to look forward to - prepare harder, and try to score more on each test. You can "cheat" by skipping stuff you are sure about. That is fine :)

If you are really bored you can always come over to the forums and give company by posting questions, and answering problems.

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by sieken » Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:55 pm
Thanks for the reply Arun. I've also come to realized the strategies are a different by book. I went through the PR book first and I feel like they're setting you up to get some problems wrong and be okay with it, kind of like teaching "controlled falling" instead of flying. I took my first MGMAT test this morning and I didn't do as well as I've done before, but it's motivated me to keep going with those books since my issues were all over the board. - Aaron
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