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Everything You Need to Prepare for the GMAT (retired) Updated on: 01 Oct 2018, 15:58
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Thanks a lot for the stuff!! +1 :)
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Thank You~~
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Thx .. seems quite useful ..
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Thank you! It is really great stuff for a GMAT newbie :wink:
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Under GMAT Study Plans, how about adding a link to a page for GMAT-takers with a short time frame in mind to prep for the test? "One month," as in my case, seems to be fairly popular...

If I'm not mistaken, I think the advice that I found suggested running through all 3 OG guides (12th, verbal, and quant), and testing like crazy.

For my short-term strategy, I purchased the 12th ed. OG (though I may pick up the OG verbal as my primary concern is verbal) and Kaplan Live 2010 for access to the 5 additional CAT tests. Study time expected at +/- 20 hours per week.

Hopefully late-coming "slackers" can still score well. :-D

Edit: here's a post from bb back in '03:
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Under GMAT Study Plans, how about adding a link to a page for GMAT-takers with a short time frame in mind to prep for the test? "One month," as in my case, seems to be fairly popular...

If I'm not mistaken, I think the advice that I found suggested running through all 3 OG guides (12th, verbal, and quant), and testing like crazy.

For my short-term strategy, I purchased the 12th ed. OG (though I may pick up the OG verbal as my primary concern is verbal) and Kaplan Live 2010 for access to the 5 additional CAT tests. Study time expected at +/- 20 hours per week.

Hopefully late-coming "slackers" can still score well. :-D

Edit: here's a post from bb back in '03:
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Take a look at this one: gmat-study-plan-for-gmat-novices-start-your-gmat-journey-80727.html
I should re-work the other one - thank you for finding it!!!
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Everything You Need to Prepare for the GMAT (retired) 08 Nov 2009, 18:45
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This is indeed a great guide. Everything I need to know about GMAT is here.
Thank you so much.
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I will be sure to plunder all these resources.
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My questin it to GMAT profis. I use the Off. Guide at the moment, my first aim is math. What do you think;imho the tasks and examples in this book is too easy as for high score. Are the tasks on really GMAT more difficuilt than in off. guide? What book has the most quantity of ex. that i can meet in GMAT?
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My questin it to GMAT profis. I use the Off. Guide at the moment, my first aim is math. What do you think;imho the tasks and examples in this book is too easy as for high score. Are the tasks on really GMAT more difficuilt than in off. guide? What book has the most quantity of ex. that i can meet in GMAT?
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They start out with problems that you can just figure out if you read the question.
By the end they should be hard.
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Thanks! But the really GMAT questions is smth like that in OG? Or much harter?
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It depends how well you do. They should be getting quite hard if you're doing well. If you make lots of mistakes, you will mainly encounter easy question. The questions in the OG are from the old exams.
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I am not very good in math. But something from school is in my head. Sometimes i do silly mistakes ex. in equations i can write 30 (but right is 300) and then i get mistakes. It is right that in OG the questions come from easier to harder. Im at 120 thies questions and sometimes 2 min is not enought for me to solve the problem. :oops: Need i solve as much as possible problems to have a better chance om GMAT?
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Thanks. I learned so much though all these links you posted up. Great resources!
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Thanks for sharing the collective experience.
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Thank you so much for this. This site is awesome.
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What is everyone's recommendation for the best tutorial software? I have some decent books, but I think practice software would be extra-helpful.
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Just click download on the lower left corner. Its a scanned version so its a bit annoying to read but hey you save 30 dollars.

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