headache wrote:
What is the best way to retain information from the 8 Manhattan Strategy guides?
Background:
I have purchased the full set of 8
Manhattan GMAT Strategy Guides and over the past month I have gone through the first 6. I took one of the
MGMAT cat tests and realized that I was unable to recall many of the equations and strategies taught in the first books I reviewed a month ago.
For those who have successfully utilized these guides, what were your strategies? Did you highlight/underline the books as you read them so as to turn them into quick reference guides for later? Did you create a separate notebook of equations and principles you found useful? Did you develop something else?
Hey,
Thanks for using our books!
As you go through the books, have you been doing the practice problems at the end of each chapter? If not, definitely do those, as they are meant to solidify the concepts you learned. Once you've finished the practice problems, proceed to
the Official Guide problems we list that reference the concepts you learned. When doing the
OG problems, don't just look to see if you have gotten the problem right or wrong, but look to see what principle you applied, and whether you could do it again another way using a different principle. Analyze your answers, and use the explanations in the
OG guide as well as the explanations we give to better understand them. In other words, don't just read the concepts, but make sure you thoroughly understand them before moving on. This will make you less likely to forget them a month or two down the road.
If you have already done this, I would suggest doing those same drills that you find at the end of each chapter again as you review, or at least redoing the ones you initially got wrong.
Other than that, I think the other advice so far has been very good.
Hope that's helpful!
Best,
Caitlin Clay
Student Services Associate
Manhattan GMAT