freestyla86 wrote:
kidderek:
That sounds like a great schedule! Do you have any recommendations on which order to use the study guides or how many I should get through per week?
This is just a personal recommendation but I would avoid Kaplan. It really does nothing for you. I scored some 200 points below on one Kaplan paper test than on the actual exam. More to the point, the questions do a poor job of emulating the actual gmat questions. These are not just my viewpoints, but the general consensus of the gmatclub community.
However there are some who argue that Kraplan does offer something in the way of a new angle. I won't deny that. But I will tell you this much, Kaplan doesn't cover anything that Princeton Review already does.
Depending on how much standardized concepts you remember, I suggest you start with the Princeton Review. You should be able to breeze through this book. While your doing so, do three things, which you will do until test day. One, time everything. EVERYTHING. Two, start a set of flash cards. Write down any concept you don't know cold. Write down any question you get wrong. You make a mistake, you punish yourself with the flash cards. Three, notate every incorrect question (kinda goes with flash cards). You will redo the ones you got wrong.
Carry these cards with you where ever you go. If the pile gets too thick, shuffle, take a manageable portion and switch off from day to day.
When you're done with the PR book, take inventory of ALL gmat CATs you can get your hands on. I used three kinds -- PR (pretty accurate in terms of score),
MGMAT (pretty tough) and GMATPREP (the gold standard).
IMPORTANT - The GMATPREP is GOLD. Do NOT take a test on a whim. Treat it like gold.
If you haven't already, pick up the
OG supplements as well. They're pretty easy compared with the
OG, but still better than any other company.
Here, I would say start attacking the first half of each
OG section. The questions are not that difficult. You should get a very high percentage of them right.
When you're done with the first half of the
OG, get the
manhattan gmat books that correspond to your weakness. Definitely get the sentence correction. If the PR sentence correction is high school grammar,
mgmat SC is Shakespearean prose. Get it, no questions asked.
The
mgmat math stuff is very good too. I like to think of myself as a quant, and even I had difficulty with the math.
MGMAT breaks it down into simple manageable components. Keep practicing. The online exercises that come with each subject focus is brutal, but very helpful.
Try taking a GMATPrep at this point. Do not be discouraged by your score. You're still a work in progress.
Are you still working on those flash cards? The ones you've memorized, you can put aside.
Continue working on the rest of the
OG.
When you're done or near done with them, you should be about 1 or 2 weeks away from the actual gmat. Take your second GMATPrep. If this score is within 30 points of your target, you're good to go. Work on all the problems you've gotten wrong. Find other materials, namely the 1000 series. Keep your brain warm and prepare yourself psychologically for the test. You're in the home stretch.
Damm, I wrote a lot.
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19 Oct 2007, 05:10
