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jdmiser: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 2; Joined: Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:22 pm

by jdmiser » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:42 pm

Kim-

For someone like me who has purchased all 7 Manhattan GMAT study guides. Do you recommend that I should solve the problems listed in the Problem Set section after I go through each individual Manhattan GMAT preparation guide? Or should I wait and completely study all of the 7 Manhattan GMAT guides first before tackling any of the problem set questions listed in the back of each book? Thanks in advance for your advice.

Joel

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by Stacey Koprince » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:13 pm

Hi, Joel

I recommend that you do OG problems as you work through a particular strategy guide. Of course, you should learn the concepts and techniques in a given chapter first, but you will also then need to ensure that you can apply the concepts / techniques to real questions, and you should do that right after learning those concepts / techniques.

True mastery also requires that you analyze questions after you do them (even the ones you get right!) to learn everything you possibly can. I tell my students to spend twice as long analyzing a question as they spent doing it in the first place.

By the time you're done analyzing a question, you should be able to tell yourself two things:
- how to recognize a question of this type if you see one again (note that you should not memorize that specific question - it is highly unlikely you will see the exact question - but, for many questions, you are likely to see questions with a similar structure or set up, though very different numbers or details)
- how you're going to approach a question of that type if you see it again

Also, FYI, you don't need to do all of the OG questions in a problem set as you study a chapter or book - in fact, you shouldn't do all of them at once, because you will want to save some for review later.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

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