Best way to use Manhattan GMAT guides

[virtuoso902]

I have all the mgmat guides and I'm knocking it out one chapter at a time taking extensive notes on things I need to learn. Currently this is what I am doing. Please let me know your thoughts or ideas on how to be more efficient/ get the most out of these books. Right now I am working full time so my schedule goes as follows:

monday - friday 1-2 chapters a day.
- I take extensive notes and make flashcards of all the things I do not know and what the books tell me to memorize.

Whenever there are practice problem sets I split them into two days.
- I use Eric's timed gmat grid and do the practice problems in a simulated test environment doing about 40 problems at a time. I then go thru and mark which ones I got wrong and use the MGMAT books to try to figure them out myself if it is a concept error. I then make flashcards of the concept errors I made (this usually takes a whole 3 hours including the problems themselves)

Saturday I leave for a review of the material day
- A lot of my math is rusty and the material is practically brand new to me since i forgot most of it. I feel the books are really dense and I need a 3 hour block to review what I learned previously. I hope this will pound the information into my head so that I do not forget it.

Sunday I rest

Pros: I feel like I am retaining the information fairly well.
Cons: The process seems long and dragged out

Thanks you!

[DanaJ]

Are you pressed for time? Because if you're not, than the approach you've taken is good - mainly because the information sticks with you. If you need to take the GMAT soon, you might want to develop an alternate strategy. However, if not, keep to this routine since you're doing all the right things:
- taking notes
- making flashcards
- reviewing material so you don't forget it

[Osirus@VeritasPrep]

The way I did it was in addition to making flash cards, I did two problems a day from past chapters. For example, if I am on chapter 5 of number properties. I would do problems 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 or 5 and 6, etc, from the previous chapters and then I would move on to new information. It is a long and tedious process, but I believe it has helped me a lot.