My study plan and progress

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Re: Change in Game Plan

by bigTEX » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:00 pm

zaffar wrote:GMAT Material
- Princeton Review.2006-07
- Manhattan SC 2003.
- Kaplan Verbal..
- OG11-OG10. practice SC ONLY after completing Manhattan SC & Kaplan Grammar Section.
- 1000 SC.
- 1000 CR.

CAT Tests:-
- GMATPrep tests I II III. [will take them more than 2 times to exhaust all questions]
- PowerPrep tests. I II.
- Kaplan tests . I II III IV.
- Princeton tests I II III IV.

STUDY PLAN

1. OG10:-
QUANT:-
DS: - 274 (Answers + Explanation)
PS: - 441 (Answers + Explanation)

VERBAL:-
CR: - 205 (Answers + Explanation)
SC: - 268 (Answers + Explanation)
RC: - 285 (Answers + Explanation)

2. OG11 :- (800 retired GMAT® questions organized by Difficulty and thorough explanations of the answers.)
QUANT:-
DS:- 155 (Only Answers No Explanation)???
PS: - 249 (Only Answers No Explanation)???

VERBAL:-
RC: - NA ???????????????
CR: - 124 (Answers + Explanation)
SC: - 138 (Answers + Explanation)

3. OG11 Verbal Review:- (300 real GMAT® questions, with answers and explanations)

RC:- 105 (Answers + Explanation)
CR:- 82 (Answers + Explanation)
SC:- 113 (Answers + Explanation)

4. Kaplan Verbal
15- SC Practice Sets:- 66 (3 sets with 22 q each) (Answers + Explanation)
16- CR Practice sets: - 48 (3 sets with 16 q each) (Answers + Explanation)
17- RC Practice Sets: -54 (3 sets with 18 q each) (Answers + Explanation)

SC Practice 265 Q’s (Answers + Explanation)

The Game Plan:

Day 1
1. Read the "general test tips" section in the Princeton Review book (chs. 1-6 in Princeton Review).

Day 2
2. Take the first practice test from the GMATPrep Software. Will Spend at least 2 hours reviewing both the questions I got wrong and the questions I got right.

Day 3-4-5
3. Read the Quantitative section in the Princeton Review book (chs. 7-13 in Princeton Review). Read the Verbal section (chs. 14-17 in Princeton Review).

Day 6-7-8
4. QUANT:-In the OG10, do problems #1-#100 in Problem Solving and #1-60 in Data Sufficiency. VERBAL:- In the OG10, do problems #1-#71 in Reading Comprehension, #1-51 in Critical Reasoning, and #1-67 in Sentence Correction. Will Make sure to time myself on all questions and Keep Log.

Day 9
5. Take the First practice test from the PowerPrep Software. Will Spend at least 2 hours reviewing both the questions I got wrong and the questions I got right.

Day 10-11-12
6. Read the Manhattan SC & Kaplan Grammar Section. Will try to digest it.

Day 13-14-15
7. QUANT:-In the OG10, do problems #101-#200 in Problem Solving and #61-#120 in Data Sufficiency. VERBAL:- In the OG10, do problems #72-#142 in Reading Comprehension, #52-#102 in Critical Reasoning, and #68-134 in Sentence Correction. Will Make sure to time myself on all questions and Keep Log.

Day 16
8. Take the Second practice test from the PowerPrep Software. Will Spend at least 2 hours reviewing both the questions I got wrong and the questions I got right.

Day 17-18-19 ???????

Day 20-21-22
9. QUANT:- In the OG10, do problems #201-#320 in Problem Solving and #121-#197 in Data Sufficiency. VERBAL:- In the OG10, do problems #143-#213 in Reading Comprehension, #103-#154 in Critical Reasoning, and #134-201 in Sentence Correction. Will Make sure to time myself on all questions and Keep Log.

Day 23
10. Take the First practice test from Kaplan CD-Rom Software. Will Spend at least 2 hours reviewing both the questions I got wrong and the questions I got right.

Day 24-25-26??????????

Day 27-28-29
11. QUANT:- In the OG10, do problems #321-#441 in Problem Solving and #198-#274 in Data Sufficiency.VERBAL:- In the OG10, do problems #214-#285 in Reading Comprehension, #155-#205 in Critical Reasoning, and #202-268 in Sentence Correction. Will Make sure to time myself on all questions and Keep Log.

Day 30
12. Take the Second practice test from Kaplan CD-Rom Software. Will Spend at least 2 hours reviewing both the questions I got wrong and the questions I got right.

WILL REVIEW PROGRESS AFTER ONE MONTH

I don't know about anyone else here, but this plan spells B-U-R-N-O-U-T. This will get old quick. You're doing yourself a disservice by following a regimen like this.

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by zaffar » Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:57 am

Thankyou Eric for the wish.

i am studying almost 8 hrs a day for last 10 days :twisted: and its too tiring.

but i have to do it. test on 28th,13 more days left, and so much to do.

lets hope for the best.

i gave kaplan cat III today and score 550 :roll:
Quant:- correct 24 Incorrect 13 Scaled Score 38
Verbal:- Correct 20 Incorrect 20 Scaled Score 27
scaled Score 550 60 Percentile.

In quant i was a liitle slow in the start, questions were too confusing i think so. I have to guess last 4 Q's in 1 min

and got 3 wrong .
In verbal i am too afraid of RC i cant read the passage as they all sucks. so i try to guess answers of them and got 7 of them wrong.

CR & SC in little difficult as compare to OG 10. any idea about it?

today i did around 120 CR from OG10. when i was starting my preparation it was the most difficult part for me but now i like or i love it 8) its fun to do them. there is one problem when i try to do 25 in 35 mins, it takes around 40 mins to do them. is it OK? and in times session i usually get 4/25 wrong. this is becoause i try to do it quickly and misread the question and sometime there is so difficult english used that i cant understand it and have to guess the answer

thankyou Bigtex and GCHall840 for your vritical analysis. but that plan was long ago and i cant follow that because of some family problems and oother reasons. and now i regret it because now i have to study 8-10 hrs per day to accomodate all that. but there was no choice.
anyways that was a good plan as far as i am concerned.

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by GCHall840 » Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:08 pm

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zaffar: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 49; Joined: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:36 am

by zaffar » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:43 am

Hi,

i have some Questions

-CR & SC is little difficult as compare to OG 10. any idea about it?

-i am doing 4 out of 20/25 wrong in CR is this Ok. please suggest. if i do 4 wrong in all verbalsection on gmat total of 12 wrong. what will be scaled score

GCHall840 start a new thread and post your preparation and progress there.

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by beatthegmat » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:48 am

zaffar wrote:Hi,

i have some Questions

-CR & SC is little difficult as compare to OG 10. any idea about it?

-i am doing 4 out of 20/25 wrong in CR is this Ok. please suggest. if i do 4 wrong in all verbalsection on gmat total of 12 wrong. what will be scaled score

GCHall840 start a new thread and post your preparation and progress there.

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I think you were comparing CR & SC in Kaplan vs. OG, right? If that's the case, I think all the verbal in the Kaplan books are more difficult than the verbal questions you should expect on the real GMAT.

In terms of guessing your scaled score by how many questions you got wrong--that's impossible to do. Since the GMAT is adaptive, 4 wrong can mean one score or another score depending on the type of questions. It's even impossible to ballpark what that performance means.

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EXTREMELY URGENT plzzzzzzzzzzz

by zaffar » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:38 am

Hi,

thankyou Eric for answering.

today i start doing RC from OG10. before that i read some posts about how to tackle RC in GMAT. most of them prefered to read the passage first and take some notes and advised to do practice. i tried to do 8 passages with this method but it bcak fired. first it took me almost 10 mins to read the whole passage and after each paragraph i tried to take notes it took me around 15 mins total. but then i answered 21/48 wrong

. what the hell.

i am feeling so low after that. my morale was very high till morning today as i was scoring around 70-80% in SC and CR after so much studying and practicing.

English is my second language and i am not good at it. what should i do? practice with same method or try some other method. please i need help. any advice. i have test on april 28. so its urgent.

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Re: EXTREMELY URGENT plzzzzzzzzzzz

by beatthegmat » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:21 pm

zaffar wrote:Hi,

thankyou Eric for answering.

today i start doing RC from OG10. before that i read some posts about how to tackle RC in GMAT. most of them prefered to read the passage first and take some notes and advised to do practice. i tried to do 8 passages with this method but it bcak fired. first it took me almost 10 mins to read the whole passage and after each paragraph i tried to take notes it took me around 15 mins total. but then i answered 21/48 wrong . what the hell.

i am feeling so low after that. my morale was very high till morning today as i was scoring around 70-80% in SC and CR after so much studying and practicing.

English is my second language and i am not good at it. what should i do? practice with same method or try some other method. please i need help. any advice. i have test on april 28. so its urgent.

Suggestions/ Advices are Welcome

RC is difficult to advise folks on because the right strategy differs from person to person. Check out the strategies that Kaplan and Princeton Review suggest and try those. Also take a look at my study blog, https://beatthegmat.blocked, and see how I attacked RC.

There's no quick fix for RC performance other than trial and error and lots of practice.

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by zaffar » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:42 am

Hi,

i think i have to do practice for RC adn will do 3-5 Passages everyday for next 7-8 days. I hope it will get better. i am getting 50-60% hit rate.

my morale is very low since for last two days

this *&@$@#$ RC. i think i'll not even get 650

.

anywayz i am now starting to do sets for Quant , LSAT for CR & RC and OG 11 and OG 11 verbal review for verbal overall. will start AWA from this friday. will make template and practice them on 3 CAT tests.

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by Stacey Koprince » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:48 pm

When you say you have a 50-60% hit rate, are you talking about percentage of questions you get right? That is not how the test scores you - the test scores you based upon the difficulty level of the questions that you get right. The majority of people who take the test will get roughly half the questions wrong (except at the very high and low ends of the score range). The difference is in the difficulty level of the questions. So it's not automatically bad to have a 50-60% hit rate - in fact, it can be quite good, depending upon the mix of questions.

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by zaffar » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:01 am

thank you stacey for your reply.

i did some questions from OG11 today around 50 from each section and most of them are repeat from OG 10. is there any good in doing OG11? these questions are of no use to me because i finished doing OG10 last week. if most of them are repetition of OG10 then i will start doing the questions i got wrong in OG10.

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by Stacey Koprince » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:45 am

I think the overlap is around 60-70% (between OG 10 and 11). So there are some new questions, but most are not. The verbal and quant supplements, though, are all new questions (the purple and green books).

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by HW » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:55 am

Stacey-I heard the opposite,in fact I brought it up in this thread.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1602

Somone mentioned that the overlap is 20% between 10th and 11th and that the verbal and quant is identical to the 10th

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by Stacey Koprince » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:54 pm

Hmm. I've never done an analysis myself - that's just what I've heard others say. Let me ask around the curriculum department and see if anyone knows the definitive answer!

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by zaffar » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:55 am

Hi,

I start practicing AWA yesterday will post my template for opinions/suggestions.

I gave GMATPrep CAt II today and scored 600

verbal part totally destroy me and in Quant i miscalculated time and was left with 11 q in last 10 mins. tried to do it as quickly as i can but could only do 9 and 2 were left. and out of those 9 questions, i got 8 wrong

. in these 9 first 7 were DS and last 2 were PS. My Breakup for test is
Quant scaled score :- 44
verbal Scaled Score :- 28

but i got 16 questions wrong and didnt attempt last 2 questions and still 44. is there some bug in GMATPrep or is this normal?
quant wrong question number were : 5-6-9-14-15-17-18-19-27-28-29-30-32-33-34-35 and out of these 5 questions (14-15-17-34-35) were PS and allother 11 questions were DS.

In verbal i attempted all questions and in this part too I got 16 wrong but scaled score is 28

in this i got wrong 1-2-5-7-11-14-16-18-20-23-26-29-30-31-33-37. out of which CR-3 RC-5 SC-8 SC part, which i thought was my strongest of three sections, was the worst one. and RC which I thought was my weakest i got only 5 wrong out of 4 passages.

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