Feedback from people following the 60-day GMAT study guide?

[saintforlife]

Can people who are following the 60-day study guide give some feedback on how your preparation is going? Does the schedule have a good logical flow of topics from one day to the next? How hard is to stick to the schedule? If you miss a day or two in between, are you able to make it up during the weekends? Any other comments about this plan?

Most importantly for me personally: Is this a good way to start studying for the GMAT even if you don't intend to give your GMAT exam at the end of 60 days?

I know that is a lot of questions, but I will appreciate any replies.

[galak]

Hi saintforlife,

I think the guide does a good job in getting a person started in a studying pattern. The guide lays out a good plan to study the quantitative material, however, I would say each of the study "days" took me 2-4 days (studying around 4 hours each day), and I did most of suggested advanced problems. On the days I didn't do the advance problems, I could shave off a day or two. I stopped following the guide when I hit the sentence correction portion as I thought it would be best to go over the entire MGMAT SC book, which I have just finished (it took about 15 days of studying). Now that I have finished up the MGMAT SC book, I plan on going back to the 6 SC emails and watch the videos.

I started off with a 550 on the GMATPrep 1 around July 2011. I retook the GMATPrep 1 on January 7th and got a 640 (after completing my Quantitative prep). And I just finished the MGMAT CAT #1 on February 4th and got (got a 640) after my SC prep.

I would say I only did 10-20 quantitative problems during my SC review. And although, I have written extensive notecards for both quantitative and SC material, I haven't really reviewed them. But I believe, going back to review and do more problems will definitely help.

In summary,

Most importantly for me personally: Is this a good way to start studying for the GMAT even if you don't intend to give your GMAT exam at the end of 60 days?

Yes, good place to start

Does the schedule have a good logical flow of topics from one day to the next?

not bad, but I do question whether it would have been more beneficial going through each of the MGMAT quant books.

hope this helps!