GMAT Strategy

maxim730 wrote:I have only 1 week until my Exam.

I have 3 practise exams available to me - PR (2 or 3 online), Manhattan GMAT (4 I think), and GMAT Prep.

Obviously, I can't take all of them in 1 week (I also work full time). What exams do you guys suggest I take?

I was thinking:

Mon - PR (start off with the "easier" of the exams)
Tues - Manhattan GMAT
Wed - Manhattan GMAT
Thurs - GMAT Prep (I dont like how it doesnt explain the answers)
Fri - rest and relax. maybe light reading of review notes.

Thanks

That's the perfect line-up of tests and perfect strategy--I love how you're emphasizing practice tests at the end of your prep.

Best of luck to you in your final week!

Actually, I would NOT take a test every day. It's not useful to just keep taking tests over and over again without learning something in between - you are just reinforcing your own bad habits. That's like saying that you're going to be in a piano recital this week-end and you don't know the piece perfectly yet but you're just going to keep playing it over and over again the way you already play it. You have to stop and figure out where you're not perfect, fix those areas, and THEN practice. Then go back and figure out where you're still not perfect, fix those areas, practice again. And so on.

You need to learn something from every question you do - and it can take 4-6 hours to do a thorough review of one test. I also wouldn't take a test within 2 days of the exam. Take your last test 3 days before, spend the 2nd day before going over that test THOROUGHLY, then do a very light review the day before.

Good luck!!