AWA and IR in 7 days - How ?

Question

Hi,

Can I please have some guidance on how to prepare for IR and AWA in a week's time ? I have heard mixed reviews about MGMAT's book so I am not sure where to start. I do not want to spend a lot of time on IR/AWA but I do not want to ignore it either. Any suggestions regarding high quality IR/AWA resource and study strategy will be most appreciated.

DisciplinedPrep · Answer

altairahmad - You must be living under a rock if you do not already know about the chineseburned AWA template that has helped several test-takers get a perfect 6 in the AWA section. The sheer number of kudos and bookmarks proves how amazing this post is. Take a few moments to review the below topic.

How to get 6.0 AWA on GMAT: https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-get-6 ... 64327.html

For the IR section, the only option is to quickly review the rules of solves the various question types and practice questions as you can. Please visit the GMAT Club IR forum to learn more about this section and find a large repository of questions, including official ones.

GMAT Club Integrated Reasoning (IR): https://gmatclub.com/forum/integrated-reasoning-ir-177/

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi altairahmad,

Are you asking this about the AWA and IR because you plan to take the Official GMAT in 7 days OR because you want to spend no more than 7 days in total on these areas?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

altairahmad · Answer

Hi Rich,

Actually I can't take out more than 7 days. I have a 7 day vacation period coming up during which I can study and practice AWA and IR. I still have a month or 2 until I sit for the GMAT but my work doesn't allow too much prep time so I want to get AWA and IR done with as well.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi altairahmad,

The AWA portion of the GMAT is remarkably standard - you essentially have to write that an argument is flawed, explain why it's flawed and offer some suggestions about how to make the argument stronger. As long as you stay 'on topic' and present your ideas in a structured way, then you should be fine. There are a number of different 'templates' that you might choose to use; DisciplinedPrep has linked to a popular one on the site (in his post, above). Beyond that, you should make sure to write the Essay every time you take a practice CAT/mock - so that you are properly ready to do so when you take the Official GMAT.

Integrated Reasoning involves a number of skills that you would learn when training for the Verbal and Quant sections. IR is remarkably similar to Verbal CR - you just end up having far more information to deal with in IR. Thus, proper 'active' reading, note-taking and sometimes some basic Math/DS skills are required.

Have you taken any practice CATs/mocks yet and included the IR sections? How have you been scoring so far?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi altairahmad,

Just to be clear, your plan is to study for IR and AWA over the next 7 days and then study quant and verbal for the next two months?

bb · Answer

Your post should be titled IR in 6 days. You can do AWA in 1 day: https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-get-6 ... 64327.html P.S. I feel you can improve IR quite a bit if you are good with quant and verbal and just need to get a hang of the questions.

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