Hey guys. I started with the GMAT for the first time about a year and a half ago. Since then I did the test 3 times but I didn't achieve the score that I wanted. For my poor scores I blame mostly the lack of time, and the insufficient preparation.
1st attempt: Jan. 2012:
GMAT: 500 (Q:31, V:28) I will be honest, I studied only about 20 days and I thought the GMAT is something that can be mastered in a short time without much practice. I didn't read or study from any book, I mostly did the
OG questions and that was it. Only after seeing the score I realised that I'll have work much harder if I wanted to suceed.
2nd attempt: Apr. 2012:
GMAT 600 (Q:36, V36) The score went up 100 points but that still wasn't enough. I went through the Manhattan SC book and discovered beat the gmat and gmat club websites.. However I didn't study nothing in quant because I didn't have enough time and I thought that a high verbal score would be more valuable.
3rd attempt: Jun. 2012:
GMAT 600 (Q:42, V31) This was a complete disaster. When I saw the score I was really desperate. Before the third attempt I purchased the 5 Manhattan math books and went through almost all of them (I skipped some parts). However, in 30 days I practiced only quant. I didn't even touch the verbal part because I thought that the score was good and that I'll do again at least the V36 as I did on my second attempt. As you can see, even though the quant went up, the verbal fell down, and as a result I got the same score as on the second attempt.
All I want to do now is to unify my verbal and quant skills in order to get a 680+ score. I know it will be hard but I believe I can make it. I just want to ask for your advice on how to organize my time. I have about 2 months until my GMAT exam and I don't want to mess it up again. My plan is to study 5-6 hours on weekdays and on weekends even more. I have some weak spots (such as combinatorics, probability, geometry) and therefore I got the
MGMAT foundations of math to help me get pass those weaknesses.
Until now I studied from these books:
5 Manhattan quant books
Manhattan SC book
I recently got these books and I plan to go through them also:
Powerscore CR bible
MGMAT foundations of math
I also plan to buy the gmatclub quant tests and since I already have the 6
MGMAT CATs I plan to do them on weekends.
Now my plan is to go through the
MGMAT foundations of math and parallely to study from each
MGMAT book. Only afterwards I thought to start solving the gmatclub quant tests and to begin reading the CR bible and
MGMAT SC, and then to practice verbal. My goal is to get at least the 36 on verbal (as on my second attempt) and to improve my quant to at least 45.
I will really appreciate your advices. And thank you in advance!