need your advice on Preparation plan ! :)

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c210: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 19; Joined: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:45 pm

by c210 » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:29 pm

Hey everyone! I have been lurking here for a couple of weeks now and am about ready to start my review.

I plan on taking the exam on the last week of april ( gives me approximately 12 weeks)

Based on a collective review of all the top scorers, these are the resources I plan to use

OG 12, and OG 12 Quant , Verbal
8 MGMAT Strategy books (specifically for quants ( except geometry heard it was bad) and SC )
Powerscore CR

AWA:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-get-6- ... 64327.html
https://www.buy.com/prod/gmat-answers-to ... 81426.html

It has been 2 years since I was out of college and have forgotten all of the basics. Given that my plan was to schedule roughly like this:

1st week - Take an MGMAT CAT and analyze and evaluate my greatest weaknesses ( assuming quant at this point)

week 1-4 work on quant

week 5 AWA

Week 6-10 work on verbal

week 11-12- take CAT test every other day and go over and analyze problems i got wrong.

what do you guys think?

Also , would it be wise to take the first 2 weeks reviewing math concepts? If so, which books should i use for those?

Thanks in advance!

Source: Beat The GMAT — GMAT Strategy | Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:29 pm

c210: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 19; Joined: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:45 pm

by c210 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:33 am

anyone?:)

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by rijul007 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:48 am

Hey,

You should check out the "60 Day GMAT study guide".
The link: https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/gmat-guide

In the 1st week, instead of taking the MGMAT CAT, I suggest you should take the GMATPrep CAT 1, which is available on mba.com. It would give you a better idea of where you stand right now.

About the remaining part of your plan, i guess the experts can give better inputs

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by sam2304 » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:01 am

I second what rijul had said above. Take GMATPrep instead of MGMAT Cat in the beginning. Instead of accumulating all the CATs till the end you can take one mock test each week or two weeks once. And once you are half way through your preparation take your GMATPrep1 test again. And the last week avoid taking practice tests. Try to repeat both the GMATPrep tests at least twice.

Spending a week for AWA is not necessary. I would say there is no need to prepare if you take AWAs along with the weekly mocks and post them here to rate it. You can prepare simultaneously for quant and verbal. Analyse your first GMATPrep thoroughly and pick one or two topics each in quant and verbal, prepare for those simultaneously and see if you have improved in those topics in subsequent mocks.

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by Jim@StratusPrep » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:22 pm

One thing I would say is that you do not want to completely drop your quant for several weeks while you study the verbal. Usually recommend covering quant until you have all the fundamentals down and then start woking on quant and verbal GMAT problems at the same time. The reason to start quant first is that there is more of a base that you have to build up to be able to answer some of the GMAT questions.

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