Hey bkw,
Thanks for the PM invite to chime in here - I'm psyched to help. And you are, indeed, correct about those practice tests (there are also the two mba.com tests available through your Veritas account but I think you listed them elsewhere on your schedule).
In regard to your study schedule, my biggest piece of (hopefully helpful) constructive criticism is that to me it's almost "too organized" and too chronological. It's funny in a way, because it reminds me of a lot of the things I get from one of my bosses, who is an engineer by education and is very into constructing processes like these. Where I differ on this stuff is that I don't think it's terribly educational - this looks to be about "completing X number of tasks" and not as much "learning and building my skills, conceptual knowledge, and GMAT strategies".
My suggestion - break down the test based on what you already know you need to work on, and then build in some progress checks to go from there.
For example, you're going to start with the Manhattan GMAT Fractions/Decimals/Percents book in week one, and then do 30 OG math problems from there. 30 weeks or so later, you're planning to use the Veritas Prep Math Essentials (foundations of math) book. To me, you're better off using both of those books together in week one before you dive into the OG. Those OG problems won't be broken specifically into fractions/decimals/percents problems, so using those problems won't directly help you build the skills you pick up from that book. My suggestion here: Use MGMAT FDP and Veritas Prep Math Essentials in week one, and then do the exercises in each book (I know that our Math Essentials book has a couple hundred math drill problems in it to build on those skills).
Another example - you mention pretty early on in your study plan that you want to get better at Reading Comp by reading some outside magazines/journals/newspapers, but then you're planning to use the Veritas Prep RC book 25-30 weeks later. That Veritas Reading Comp lesson is one of my all-time favorites...I remember pitching the idea to a few of our top instructors a couple years ago and having all of them say some variation of "that's how I've been teaching it, too, and it works wonders". Based on our experience with GMAT RC, there are some key things that you absolutely have to take out of each paragraph, but then the rest isn't all that important at all, at least not until you've seen the questions. If I were studying, I'd devour that lesson first before I started in on just reading-for-the-sake-of-reading - get a good idea of what your strategy is and then use all your reading time to apply and perfect it.
So I guess in summary - my main piece of feedback is to look at your objectives first and to determine how to really focus in on them early. The objective really shouldn't be to complete all of these books; rather, it should be to build on the skills/concepts/strategies you'll need in a way that allows you to continually increase your comfort with them.
Then, I'd build in a monthly or so "progress check" in which you attack a set of problems on the disciplines that you've targeted to that point and analyze how you've done. Are you making the progress you want? If so, start in on the next set of items; if not, alter your program to spend at least 1/3 of your time over the next few weeks continuing to target the old stuff while you get acquainted with some new things. My bet is that, over six months or so, you'll find that a handful of question types or concept areas come pretty quickly to you and you won't need as much time as you've budgeted for them later in your syllabus; but a few concepts will nag at you and require you to really buckle down for a week or two that may not have been set aside for them. I think it's pretty tough to look ahead a couple months to know what you'll need at that time, so if you have some progress check / analysis / gameplan flexibility in there that should help you to make the best use of your time.
I hope that helps...keep us posted!
Brian Galvin
GMAT Instructor
Chief Academic Officer
Veritas Prep
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