GMAT Strategy

Hi everyone,

I think everyone is on to an important strategy on this thread: the importance of studying not only your weak area, but your strong area as well. On my SAT, I got 800M and 700V. I was a math major, and a private, in-home SAT math tutor throughout college. So, I focused my GMAT studying mainly on Verbal.

Ironically, I got 99th percentile Verbal and 83rd percentile Math. I think I was a little overconfident with the math. I also wasn't pacing myself well, as I was left with about 5 minutes at the end. There was one problem that I realized I had gotten wrong as I was hitting the submit button, but of course you can't goback with the computer adaptive test.

Anyway, if I were to go back and do it all again, I would spend just a little more time studying math... because then maybe I could have gotten 99th percetile in both! There's no reason to complain about my 750, though.

Best wishes,

Tatiana

Thanks Tatiana for a great advice.

Actually I work in a bit different pattern.

1. Analyze the weak and strong areas.
2. Level up your weak points to the level of strong points.
3. In meantime, continuously in touch up with your strong points.
4. Once, all your areas at same level, then collectively move up to your target.

This is my simple strategy that I use to follow in every area of my life no matters if its any game or study or work. I know its bit time consuming and need lots of patience but one thing I can say with confidently, this technique never betrayed me.

*** Initial failures doesn't matter, if it end with a huge success.

punit.kaur.mba wrote:

Code Snooker - I am also planning to do OG after I finish Manhattan, Kaplan 800 and only after I am confident that I have learnt my mistake and newer strategies to solve questions of various types.


Keep posting your day to day progress. Its keeps me motivating and not lose focus on my prep .

Hey Punit,

Actually, by sharing my plans and progress actually motivating me also. Though of unfavorable circumstance in my life, I get motivated by reading your posts and I put myself to be studying most of time.

Here is this weekend's update:-

1) Finished Pronoun chapter from MH-SC.
2) Studied noun and verb chapter from W&M.
3) Finished problem set of Verb-Agreement from W&M
4) Finished permutation and combination from RS Aggarwal
5) Finished probability from RS Aggarwal (though one confusion is still there).

Keep posting and sharing your views and updates.

Good Luck

Yeah you are right.. It is indeed motivating.

Here is what I did,

1. completed Data Sufficiency concepts from PR.

2.I changed my plan a little this weekend and decided to make Flash cards of Sentence Correction. Spent a lot of time on that... but it was worth, I got to revise what I learnt few days back.

3.I also solved 7 SC questions from the GMAT Warm up test . Attempted 7, got 2 wrong . But I think its wrong to predict how bad/good I am doing based on just 7 questions .


Week 2 Strategy (Focus on SC)

1. Begin Manhattan SC, while solving sample probs from OG, Update SC Flash Cards

2. Solve a few math problems everyday, keeping a log of mistakes in the Practice Grid


During the Weekend

1. Do 30 Practice problems in SC to check hit rate.

2. Prepare CR, RC Flash Cards of lessons learnt from Princeton.