8-day plan (crunch time)

[lux]

i just booked my GMAT for 5/10 at 12:15pm. i'm trying my best not to stress about it because it.. is.. only.. a.. test.

nonetheless, it's coming up in about a week so it's time for me to get down to business and focus on my studies. i've been studying pretty regularly for about 3 weeks now. i did PR, Kaplan, and most of OG 11.

my plan is to finish up OG 11 (just some CR and RC) this weekend and do my final GMATPrep tomorrow (5/3). I may also take GMATPrep on wednesday (5/7) even though there will probably be some redundancies. i will review all notes and problems from sunday to thursday. and take friday off.

not sure exactly HOW to review but i was thinking 2 topics a day (sun - pr/sr, mon - dc, cr, tues - pr/rc, wed - gmat prep, essay, pr, sr, thurs - dc, cr, rc.) i will go over all problem i got wrong and then maybe do the paper tests.

what do you think? any suggestions?
for anyone who has taken the GMAT recently, do you recommend i focus on the last 50 problems of each section? or should i try my best to go over EVERYTHING (even though i bet that's impossible). thanks everyone! wish me luck!

[lux]

so i was just doing some timed CR from OG 11 and i wanted to ask - how does everyone attack these problems?
i usually:

1. write down what the type of question (assumption, weaken, etc.)
2. take a couple of notes

i can usually do this all AND solve the problem in about 1-1.75 (the most) mins.

do you think it's a waste of time to write down so much? my "notes" are probably like 5-7 words..

[jamess]

The fastest way to answer a question is to solve it in your mind.

Having said that, that is a result of a lot of practice. But I think there are still some basic framework that can be applied to all CR questions to help solve them without writing essays as notes.



Wish you best of luck for the exam.