maddy10 wrote:
I took my OFFICIAL GMAT earlier and scored 550 (Q-48, V-19). Non Native.
Planned preparation time - 100 days.
SC – 15 days
CR – 15 days
RC – 15 days
Quant – 15 days
Refine my weak areas and improve – 40 days.Booked my exam on
July 22nd.Resources
EGMATManhattan
Plan would be to complete the concepts by June first week and then begin with Manhattan Tests.
I think this a good start to your plan, but there are also a few other things you should consider throughout your studies.
How much time will you spend each day?
How often do you plan to take CATs?
What other resources should you use? (Answer should be all of the official stuff from GMAC, e.g.
OG, Verbal Review, Quant Review, GMATPrep exam and question pack 1, etc...)
What other obligations do you have leading up to your exam?
I would almost suggest a day by day schedule, rather than large blocks. It's very easy to tell yourself you have 15 days to work through a SC book and leave it until the last day. You may be better off partitioning it a bit and setting a concrete schedule for each day depending on how much time you will actually have to study.
Personally, I would recommend that you break up your verbal studying into smaller sessions, but that may just be my own personal preference. 2 Weeks is a long time to put a topic to rest, and the last thing you want to do is have to refresh stuff that you already spent time on. I would recommend a week or so on each topic, but really the most important thing is that you are going back and revisiting the old material. If you do SC to start, and then ignore it for 3+ weeks, you are likely to forget things. Try to get everything into your brain by studying the topics in smaller chunks over a longer period of time.
For your "official GMAT" that you mentioned, was this a practice exam or the real thing?
For your CATs, make sure you do the entire exam (AWA and IR included) under testlike conditions (no cellphone, 8 min breaks, etc...)
I definitely think this is a great start to a plan, but would also recommend that you make a slightly more detailed timeline (and maybe set up a schedule in Excel). I think this will help make sure you tackle a little bit each day, rather than starting and stopping throughout your planned period.
Best of luck!