GMAT Strategy

pathus21 wrote:After about 5 weeks of studying through Manhattan.

Verbal 31 to 38
Math 40 to 37

I think my problem is the inability to apply all of the basic math I mastered to actual problems. I think the solution is to practice a TON of actual GMAT math problems. Any suggestions? Also, my timing issues could definitely be improved in both sections. I finished the Verbal section literally 12 minutes early so room for improvement. (Spend more on RC and CR). Timing on SC looked good.

I believe my timing issues could be solved by doing practice versus individual problems one at a time.

Any advice would be appreciated.

pathus21 wrote:Brian,

Thank you for the input. I actually got my hands on and have been using a Manhattan syllabus. I try to complete each week's objectives in 3 days and spend the other days doing extra problems/ "Try Quant/Try Harder Verbal etc".

The articles are pretty useful. I am planning on spending 75% of my study time on math until I feel good about it, then take another CAT. I think my problem is learning how to think through the problems, not the actual math computation each problem requires.

All of the lower level math I nail, I think I will do mostly mid-level math problems until I start nailing most of them and then try to tackle more challenging problems.