uphillclimber wrote:
Everyone,
I have been scoring in the 400s (31q, 22-27V) in the practice exams and reading through a book isn't really my cup of tea. The
MGMAT series, although great for some, do not click for me. I am tight on a budget so spilling over 1K for a class is out, so I have been considering
magoosh and gmatpill to use as an "online" tutor. I am not looking into Harvard or Stanford, and I honestly about a 600 to get into my b-school. I have about 2 hours a night and about 4 on weekends to study, have bought
OG 13, and scheduled a date with the GMAT on May 25th. I obviously need help in BOTH verbal and quant. I know it may be difficult but I am not afraid of a challenge! Be as blunt and straightforward as you please! Any thoughts and/or suggestions are really appreciated!
Dear
uphillclimberFirst of all, I agree with
Big4Advisory and
ohsballer --- the
MGMAT books are superb. It's a shame they are not clicking for you. I would say --- think of them as reference books, like a dictionary. Few people read the dictionary from cover to cover, and that can be a hard way to go at the
MGMAT books, but get to know their layout enough so that when you have a specific question, you can look it up in those books. That's one way to derive benefit from them.
Because you mentioned
Magoosh, I'd like to put in a plug. With all due respect to
ohsballer, I would think a live service that provides total GMAT prep with full online support that's considerably
cheaper than the
MGMAT book set might also be in the running for "best bang for the buck"!
Here's a three-month study plan:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/3-month-gm ... beginners/Since you have a little over two months, you will have to condense this plan a bit.
Here are a couple blogs from the free blog you may find helpful:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/how-to-stu ... gmat-math/https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-sente ... questions/https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-sente ... trategies/https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/save-time- ... questions/As you may know, we have 200+ video lessons and 700+ questions. We write our own questions and subject them to a rigorous statistical analysis, so I believe our questions are, on average, as good as
MGMAT's. Here are a few practice questions for free:
A DS question
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/872A PS question
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/47A SC question
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3292A CR question
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3137When you submit your answer for each, the following page will have a complete video explanation. Each one of our 700+ questions has its own video explanation.
Please let me know if I can answer any further questions.
Mike
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Mike McGarry
Magoosh Test PrepEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)