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ldoolitt
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I'm a former heavy user of this page which I leveraged about 3.5 years ago to take my GMAT score from a 670 to a 730. I found the information on this page to be of enormous help. So thank you all.
Now I am back in hopes of helping my fiancé improve her scores. This will be my first attempt at teaching someone so we'll see how it goes. I'm sure I will be asking many questions.
We come from vastly different backgrounds (me=engineering, her=marketing) and different test taking abilities (me=pretty good, her=not so good). I am trying to make up a plan for her similar to the study plan that I had.
Current Score
~540 (I am guessing based off her GRE; having her take a diagnostic test in about 2 days) and I'm not sure of the breakdown although she does better with verbal than quant
Goal Score
660 (average at the university she is applying)
Total Study Hours
120 (either 54 days or 103 days depending on round of application)
Schedule
Test
Study 10 Hours
Test
Repeat
Strategy
My general strategy was to take a full exam, evaluate the results then spend the next 10 hours studying proportionally to what percentage of misses were from each category. Do problems, analyze results and study misses. Then test again. When testing I went in a room similar to the testing room (we have rooms sort of like this at work) and took the full test including writing with exactly the same breaks, scratch pad and everything. I was going to do the same for her.
Resources
OG11
OG12
OGVerbal
OGQuant
MGMAT Sentence Correction
Powerscore CR (they didn't have this when I took it but it sounds pretty good)
MGMAT RC
Kaplan Math
She's not super advanced in math; should I still give her the MGMAT books for the specifics or would that just confuse her?
Also has anything changed in the last 3.5 years? Any radically new study guides or advice I should be aware of?
I'll be keeping a log here of her progress. Thanks in advance for the help!
Luke
Now I am back in hopes of helping my fiancé improve her scores. This will be my first attempt at teaching someone so we'll see how it goes. I'm sure I will be asking many questions.
We come from vastly different backgrounds (me=engineering, her=marketing) and different test taking abilities (me=pretty good, her=not so good). I am trying to make up a plan for her similar to the study plan that I had.
Current Score
~540 (I am guessing based off her GRE; having her take a diagnostic test in about 2 days) and I'm not sure of the breakdown although she does better with verbal than quant
Goal Score
660 (average at the university she is applying)
Total Study Hours
120 (either 54 days or 103 days depending on round of application)
Schedule
Test
Study 10 Hours
Test
Repeat
Strategy
My general strategy was to take a full exam, evaluate the results then spend the next 10 hours studying proportionally to what percentage of misses were from each category. Do problems, analyze results and study misses. Then test again. When testing I went in a room similar to the testing room (we have rooms sort of like this at work) and took the full test including writing with exactly the same breaks, scratch pad and everything. I was going to do the same for her.
Resources
OG11
OG12
OGVerbal
OGQuant
MGMAT Sentence Correction
Powerscore CR (they didn't have this when I took it but it sounds pretty good)
MGMAT RC
Kaplan Math
She's not super advanced in math; should I still give her the MGMAT books for the specifics or would that just confuse her?
Also has anything changed in the last 3.5 years? Any radically new study guides or advice I should be aware of?
I'll be keeping a log here of her progress. Thanks in advance for the help!
Luke
