Background
I have always been one of those kids who got the "is very smart but doesn’t work to his potential" reviews in grammar school all the way through high school and college. I am a smart kid, but like the rest of many of you I spent most of my years paying more attention to other things versus school. That aside, if I put my mind to something that I really want, I have always gotten what I wanted out of it. In college I spent more time learning how to grow up, but still got close to a 3.0 in between enjoying what I would call the best 4 years of your entire life
. I managed to get myself a good job in accounting with a fortune 100 company despite giving my parents a few scares along the way.
Studying
So I haven’t looked at any of this stuff since high school. No really, since high school. I’m getting flashbacks to goofing off in class while reading this stuff. I initially started with Princeton Review Cracking book, which, going off of nothing I thought was good to go through quickly just to get the cobwebs out. After realizing that I needed to do more, I started working on Jeff Sackmans Total Math book. I find it pretty helpful, but some of the challenge questions get me. I also have done the MGMT Geometry and Number Properties books which I think are awesome. For verbal I have practice
OG for sentence correction and Critical Reasoning. I tend to think my verbal skills aren’t so bad at this point.
So I need to make the transition now. I need to start seeing results of where I am scoring. I took a Kaplan test when I first started and got a 520 without even touching verbal. Not kidding, I did the Princeton math and then tried a test. I took another Kaplan test (I bought the 2012 Kaplan premiere book) after xmas and just wasn’t into it that day. But I noticed that Kaplan’s verbal seems over the top hard... ??. Anyway, I plan on finishing up the rest of Sackmans book and crushing OG12 and 10 quant along with the
OG Quant supplement book and
OG Verbal supplement. What I’m wondering, is what did anyone use to get them into a comfortable 700 range? I assume, without giving ANY credit to myself that I am at a 650ish range, maybe higher or lower on a good day. My plan is to start taking practice test after practice test from all of the free ones. I can’t say I am familiar with what the creators of the test tend to favor or not but from what I have gathered on here, once you do a ton of
OG problems you tend to get an idea. Also, what resources through GMATClub have worked best? This is my first post and I’ve pretty much poked around this site, but haven’t really immersed myself in this place as much as I’d like to. I am at that point that I don’t want to waste my time studying the hardest problems I can find for 2 hours when should be just reviewing concepts. So what I am asking basically, is for someone like me who has been studying, feels like they got the general knowledge down, what did you do to hone in on your strengths and weaknesses so you felt comfortable to book the test (oh I haven’t booked the test because I don’t have the you know what’s do to it yet) Thanks!