hi bgpower,
your earlier post "740+study strategy" was very useful. I believe im currently where you were at the start of the year as i plan to give the exam in august.
given your prep plan, and that mine has just started i have some very similar questions that you could probably shed light on. i am working, and i can spare 1-2 hrs on a weekday and 8-10 hrs on weekends:
1. How were your initial diagnostic scores and how are they faring now? how much of a marked improvement do u find in each section?
(my initial 3 tests had the 660-570, q-44-48 and v-29-34)
GMAT prep- 660, 650
Princeton - 570
2. My weak subjects are SC and CR. I have
MGMAT (8 guides) and
Powerscore CR with me for the topics and would like to go thru
e-GMAT SC when i have the time in the coming few months. Would you suggest adding
MGMAT verbal foundations and Aristotle SC (heard pretty good reviews) to these? As expected, does this sound like an overdose for 4 months?
3. What material is available for good quant practice? given my initial scores (44-48), i feel that my basics arent too bad and i would need to focus on more coneptual questions to hit 51. the
MGMAT guides seem basic though im giving every one of them a thorough read. im planning to take
MGMAT advanced quant. heard good things about jeff sackman's set but seems very expensive.
4. Do error logs help? i find that to be too tedious and it feels like im spending a lot of time entering stuff that i could substitute by simpler menthods (circling qns to be reviewed, etc).
detailed post but really need some help to finetune my GMAT strategy!