Retaking GMAT in 4 weeks...need expert advice on prep

I received a PM asking me to reply.

Okay, so you already know your problems - timing on quant, nerves in general (though hopefully those will go away, mostly, if you fix your timing issues), and RC. That's good.

For the OG stuff, did you use all three of the current books? (OG11, Quant Supplement, Verbal Supplement) You can also get OG10, which has about 75% overlap with the current books, but 25% of the questions are different. For quant, you can also use GMAT Focus, an online-only product that is also from the official makers of the test (go to www.gmatfocus.com).

I would also dispute your notion that you can't improve your timing by going over those same problems again. You didn't do *all* of those problems in 2 minutes (or less) the first time around, or you wouldn't have gone over so much during the real test. So you do need to go back and look at some of those again, and ask yourself:
- how do I recognize what this problem is telling me?
- how do I recognize what the problem is asking me?
- those two things should tell me what to do with the problem; I should follow the same approach that I have used successfully on some other, similar problem in the past. So what is that approach?
- what else could I do here? Is there a better / faster way to do it? (Often, the first way we try to do a new problem is NOT the best way to do it... unless we recognized that problem as similar to another one we studied in the past and we'd already figured out the best way to do that past problem.)
- how can I make an educated guess? (Even if I got it right... in fact, it's often easier to learn how to make an educated guess when you got the problem right in the first place.)

Until you can answer those questions, you're not done studying a problem.

Also, recognize = I know within 15-30 seconds what to do because I remember seeing something like this before, I know that this problem is of the same type as that older one, and I remember how I approached the similar problem last time. Recognize does not mean "I spend 45+ seconds figuring out what it all means and then I 'recognize' it."