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Best strategy: 4 weeks, $0 [#permalink] New post   06 Mar 2011, 21:29
I will be taking GMAT in less than 4 weeks. I started training 1.5 weeks ago and scored 710 at GMAT Prep and 700 Manhattan GMAT. The aim is 720+. In general, my quant is 47-49 (with nearly all mistakes coming from DS) and verbal is 39-44 (60% mistakes come from SC (non-native speaker), 20% from RC and CR).

At the moment, I am operating on extremely constrained budget, thus any purchases of specialised material are beyond considerations. However, the university's career centre has quite a wide choice of GMAT preparation books (some of which might be a bit outdated) and there seems to be plenty free tests available online.

What strategy would you pursue? I can spend ±3h daily/7days a week.

At the moment, I am finishing the Official Guide v12. In addition, I also got a Manhattan SC guide from the library.
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Re: Best strategy: 4 weeks, $0 [#permalink] New post   07 Mar 2011, 00:55
It's great that you still have access to prep materials;
In my opinion, you should find a test or some questions that come with answers or feedback so that you see where your weakspots are. Then try to work more on those types of questions so that you can increase your score. ( After reading your post, I believe you are already doing this )

Also, it would be great if you find complete sets of questions/tests so that you can do a timed practice; in my opinion this is really important.

From my experience, if you have limited time, try to focus more on understanding wrong questions than the mere volume of questions...

I hope this helps :)
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Re: Best strategy: 4 weeks, $0 [#permalink] New post   07 Mar 2011, 01:07
For quant, hitting the 47+ mark requires knowing the fundamentals cold, thinking strategically/quickly and avoiding silly mistakes. You already seem to be in a good position for quant so I would just practice as many questions as you can so you do not forget the necessary skills.

The MGMAT SC Guide is highly recommend on this forum. Since you already have it, go through it. In order to know all the rules, you will probably have to go through the book a few times. SC is one of the easiest areas to improve and you can quickly see your score increase. I would only practice on "official materials." Read through why the answer choices are BOTH right and wrong. You will quickly see patterns emerge. For additional "official" SC questions check out this compilation from another thread on this forum: gmatprepsc-105446.html

In short, I don't think you need any additional books. You just need to refine your SC skills through memorization and practice.

Good luck.
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Re: Best strategy: 4 weeks, $0 [#permalink] New post   07 Mar 2011, 08:13
I am not an expert as i havent done my GMAT yet, but just started keeping an error-log to identify particular weakness areas like probability/number properties in quant, SC-grammar in verbal etc., go quickly thru the GMAT club forums and you will realise that one month is the best time to narrow down to the range of your weaknesses.
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Re: Best strategy: 4 weeks, $0 [#permalink] New post   08 Mar 2011, 19:11
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puqq wrote:
I will be taking GMAT in less than 4 weeks. I started training 1.5 weeks ago and scored 710 at GMAT Prep and 700 Manhattan GMAT. The aim is 720+. In general, my quant is 47-49 (with nearly all mistakes coming from DS) and verbal is 39-44 (60% mistakes come from SC (non-native speaker), 20% from RC and CR).

At the moment, I am operating on extremely constrained budget, thus any purchases of specialised material are beyond considerations. However, the university's career centre has quite a wide choice of GMAT preparation books (some of which might be a bit outdated) and there seems to be plenty free tests available online.

What strategy would you pursue? I can spend ±3h daily/7days a week.

At the moment, I am finishing the Official Guide v12. In addition, I also got a Manhattan SC guide from the library.


If you are doing well in PS, there is no reason for you to not do well in DS. After all, Math concepts they test are the same in both. DS questions do take a little more time than PS questions. I just mentioned a DS strategy in a post. Let me repeat it here:
Read the question stem and analyze it till you understand what is given and what is asked. Go to stmnt 1 (or 2) first and see if it is enough. If not, put a cross next to it. Else put a tick next to it... Go back to the question stem and quickly look at it to refresh what data it has and what it doesn't (i.e. filter out stmnt 1 info from your mind). Then go to stmnt 2 (or 1) and now see if it is enough. Tick or cross it accordingly. Now select your answer.... or something else, whatever you like the most... Thereafter, practice the strategy in every DS question till it becomes second nature...
Focus on these finer points and you should do well...
Almost all test prep companies offer a free CAT. Try those to identify your weaknesses. Clear out those kinks. Then try another GMAT prep test. A 750+ in GMAT prep test would be a good indicator of a similar score on actual GMAT.
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