Hey Gouman,
I haven’t taken the actual GMAT yet so I don’t know if my advices here will work but logically speaking, I believe they do. Here are my advices:
1.) Can somebody help me out with a study plan/tips. For example, should I go through each guide one by one or switch it up daily and do a topic from each guide per day?
ADVICE:
Reading from different guides for strategies about the same topic can be confusing as some people in this site have mentioned. Hence, what I suggest is that you focus on one of the six topics (problem solving, data sufficiency, sentence correction, critical reasoning, reading comprehension, and analytical writing assessment) per day using one book for that day.
2.) Should I work and quant and verbal simultaneously or spend six weeks on one and another six weeks on the other?
ADVICE:
My answer is that do one of the six topics per day. If you do six weeks per topic, you may end up forgetting what you have studied for the very first topic (from your first 6 weeks) on the last day of your preparation. For example, if you study DS in your first 6 weeks, you might forget all that you have studied from DS by the time you’re done with your preparation. I would suggest this daily format per week:
• Monday: SC and AWA
• Tuesday: CR
• Wednesday: PS
• Thursday: DS
• Friday: RC, read all notes and reorganize them
• Saturday: Full-length exam
• Sunday: Review of exam
If you notice, my Monday and Friday have two tasks. The reason is that I feel my SC, RC and AWA skills are the strongest from the 6 topics. You will also notice that I reserved Wednesday and Thursday for quant topics. I did this because math is my weakness and I have to make sure that what I studied for them remains fresh on my full-length practice test every Saturday. I also allotted the entire Sunday for reviews of the full-length exam. This is because I would have to “master” each questions from the practice exams which would amount to 78 questions (37 quant + 41 verbal). I analyze each question with quality (as Jim would say) which require time to do per question.
3.) Is it acceptable to do problems one night and then review them the next, even if it means ultimately I do less problems over the course of 12 weeks?
ADVICE:
I would suggest that you do BOTH solving problems and analyzing them on the same night so you your mistakes in your “answering problems session” can be tracked on the same night that you answer the questions. This can give you a quick sense of what you ought and not ought to do on the actual GMAT.
4.) Does anyone have any sample schedules?
ADVICE:
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Check out these sites. These sites are connected to each other. Mukul (the guy who owns the schedule) cannot fit everything iin just 1 post. I really like Mukul’s study plan because of the productivity entailed in his study plan. It’s overwhelming though for those who have many concerns apart from the GMAT like in my case, I have undergrad summer classes while preparing for my other application components and the GMAT.
Basically, the key to get a good GMAT score is “substantial and daily productivity.” I was trying to emulate Mukul’s schedule but I had a hard time achieving the same productivity given my other personal concerns but I hope you can emulate his daily productivity. If you can, you would only need two months to ace the GMAT instead of three months. In addition, I highly believe you can raise your initial 480 score to 700+ if you can do Mukul’s approach.
God bless in your GMAT and application endeavors
