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The time it takes to complete each day's activities varies from day to day. At the beginning of the Study Guide, don't worry about your timing per question; just focus on the required concepts. The questions in the Official Guide (OG) are arranged in order of difficulty. So, if you're finding the first few questions too easy, you might skip ahead.empem wrote:Ok, great, thank you! Just downloaded this one: Improvement Chart for Official Guide for GMAT Review (2015 or 13th Edition)
I have the full Manhattan GMAT package including the foundation books. I started slowly back in August with the math foundations book since I really needed to get back to basics. Basically got straight A's in high school in everything but math where I always just kept afloat. Didn't take any math in college really since I got a liberal arts degree. I've just finished the first Manhattan guide and am now moving on to the OG problems set out at the end.
I have one exam scheduled on Jan 14 and a second on Feb 17 - then the school deadlines are shortly after. I'm only studying by myself, 2 hours per day after work, then 4 hours on Saturdays - although I haven't been hitting 14 hours/week yet due to work and being sick. I'm going to invest 30 hours in a private GMAT tutor as well, meeting her 2 hours every two weeks to go through any particular difficult areas.
My goal is a 640 even though I'm applying to very competitive schools, I've just accepted the GMAT will be the weak part of my application and just want to make sure I don't get cut off and not considered - otherwise I believe I have a pretty good and interesting profile.
I haven't looked at verbal yet but I'm not too worried, it's really the math I'm worried about. I'm also moving at a very slow pace with the math and although I guess it will go a little faster once I'm over the first "bump" so to speak and start getting more used to math. How long are the OG problems at the end of each guide supposed to take me? Should I do all of them or just some of them and then do the one's I skipped once I'm done with all the guides? Any other pointers considering my situation? I don't know anyone else studying for the GMAT right now and the friends who have taken it all got very high scores and were great at math to start with.
Maybe you didn't mean I should post this here, in that case I'll repost somewhere else:)
The Error log for General GMAT Practice is to remind you of general mistakes that you're making.empem wrote:I also download the Error Log for General GMAT Practice but how do I best use the two? The other one is self explanatory but this second one doesn't allow you to refer back to ALL the questions in the same way and thus keep track of how you've performed in detail (feeling, type of error etc). Is there an error log that combines the two main functionalities of the two excel documents?
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