heygirl wrote:
I have been working toward my Verbal in the past few days and I have reviewd a little of Quant concepts too.
For those of you using the
MGMAT guides - do you actually solve the
OG problems after reviewing each book? or do you do it later, after covering all 5 quant books/concepts?
I did take up the
OG problems for the NP and a couple of other books but then I realized that my mind gets to recognize the question based upon the material I just reviewd and this kind of becomes a 'cheat sheet' as I know already what type of problem I could expect.
So is it better to review all the books and then start with the
OG questions, taking like 20-30 per day?
As and when you finish a chapter, I'd recommend doing the corresponding
OG problems. The main intention behind it is to expose you to the different ways in which questions can be presented to you from that chapter. After you finish a book, do all the problems from the
OG for that book. Then, after you finish all the books, start solving the
OG questions from the first one onwards!
If you follow this scheme, you will have completed all the problems in the
OG thrice!!!
IMPORTANT: Remember to take notes as you go from chapter to chapter. Use flashcards and sort them chapter wise. During the second round of problem solving, add additional flash cards to note down problems that gave you trouble. In the third round of problem solving, use a timer and solve blocks of 40 questions. Since the problems in the
OG are arranged in the increasing order of difficulty, use the following scheme to solve problems:
1. Select a number e.g. 1
2. Do all the questions that have their serial number ending in 1 e.g. 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51,.... all the way to the end!
By doing so you'll be exposed to easy, medium and hard questions in one block :D