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Final phase of preparation tips [#permalink]
Hi,

E-gmat verbal online or the e-gmat verbal live are both amazing courses that can really help you improve your scores.

However, given how close your GMAT date is, I personally do not think one should adopt any new method on the final leg of their GMAT Preparation. It may be nice to give a couple of mocks (the official ones) and work on your weaknesses, but trying something new might not work in anyone’s favour. However if you want to improve on any individual area such as Sentence Correction, you may subscribe to the individual SC course as you can finish the whole course in 10 days (with proper dedication). If however you are only looking to indentify and improve on your weak areas, I would encourage you to purchase the e-gmat scholaranium. It is without a doubt, one of the best practice tools for verbal and will indeed help you on the final leg of your preparations.

Hope this helps. All the best.
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Bananadad wrote:
I've got my First GMAC practice test planned for this weekend, I'll let you know how it goes. In the interim I'm crib carding my mistakes, redoing the questions and thrashing myself on SC.

I'm a bit constrained by work commitments to commit to the GMAT any other time, unfortunately the maximum I can push this to the right is 3-4 days.

In terms of the MBA and my profile

I'm looking at SLOAN and UK 2019

5 years experience
Military ( Highly operational)
Engineering Undergraduate MEng 2:2 (2.9GPA - hence the need for strong GMAT Score)
Looking into Consultancy Or Gov/Pol for future careers


To improve in a short interval, you need to down deep in each question type.

SC: The questions test various concepts such as S-V agreement, modifiers, parallelism etc. Find out what troubles you.
As a general guide line and a starting point, you can start solving a question by taking the following things in consideration:

1. Find out the subject and the verb
2. See that the S&V agree in number
3. Look out for the modifiers
4. Look out for parallelism
5. Look out for usage of certain words - such as vs like, few vs less etc.

CR: There might be certain types of questions that are troubling you. May be Assumption, may be conclusion, inference etc.
You need to find that out and then practice them
RC: This again can be drilled down into different types of questions and also different topics. See what questions and topics trouble you the most and then practice accordingly.
Quants: Again try to break the questions in topics such as Algebra, Number system (very important), Geometry, PnC etc.

As an addition, start preparing an error log and keep a note of all the mistakes you made and the lessons you learnt from the problems. This will ensure you do not make the same mistake again.

All the best!
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