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hi all

I have rescheduled my GMAT now and will be taking it mid-december, which is just over 2 months from now...

My story so far:

I've covered almost all the MGMAT quant. books and the MGMAT CR book. Still need to do SC and RC books.
However I'm finding I've forgotten a lot of the MGMAT content since I first covered it so I'm revising each book again quickly.

Is the best course of action for me now to start hammering out OG questions and practice exams to 'cement' what I've learnt? I feel I'm still not very well prepared yet... I've been studying on and off for around 4 months now but some questions that I do I have no idea how to solve...

Any advice would be great.

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hey,
I am in the same boat as you, only I completed the MGMT verbal guides first, and then I was studying Quant only, about to finish but ofcourse verbal is now forgotten history for me,
so dont commit the same mistake as me, try to do 10-20 quant Qs each day and keep an error log, also at this point in time you can begin to time your self for Quant qs.
You also mentioned some questions you have no idea how to solve them? try to figure out the concept being tested, you probably know it, just dont know it in GMAT language, so learn to translate gmat lingo into simple engilsh,
All the best!
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that's a great idea actually - I'll do 10-20 Quant and 10-20 Verbal each day. After a while I'll have done all of them with an error log of important stuff I have forgotten/don't know properly and then it's time for GMATCLUB tests and maybe Jeff Sackman tests too. Have you done any diagnostic tests yet? I'm scared to do any and don't know if there is any point - maybe I should do one halfway through completing the OG questions ?
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I'll suggest you to go through MGMAT SC and Number Properities book once again and then stick to the OGs. Don't waste your time on non-representative of Official questions.
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mmm i've heard the OG 12 questions weren't that representative of GMAT 2010... MY strategy is to try and cover all bases... maybe that's not the best idea anymore....
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ok I just had a major breakthrough regarding learning the MGMAT material...

So I've gone through them, as mentioned before, and now can't remember too much... I was wracking my brain trying to work out how the hell I would learn the material, and I remembered from my school & uni days how to study maths (FINALLY! I wish I remembered this 3 months ago), specifically how to learn math concepts cold. I went to https://www.flashcardmachine.com/ and started doing some flash cards, then I remembered I should be testing myself on all the little nuances in the books, particularly stuff I didn't quite grasp the first time around.

By testing myself I mean doing flash cards like Q: An ODD number divided by an EVEN integer CANNOT produce an integer. TRUE or FALSE? A: TRUE --> An ODD number divided by an EVEN integer CANNOT produce an integer. This is because the odd number will NEVER be divisible by the factor of 2 concealed within the EVEN number.

and I did literally tonight around 200 flash cards like this for the Number Properties book for stuff I still haven't learnt cold 100%. So the flash cards weren't so much flash cards like 'the formula for this is ...' but more like little mini test questions to make sure I understand the concepts. IF a concept was a bit tricky I would do multiple flash card questions for it, covering all the different angles in the MGMAT book including some of the examples they give...

If you register at https://www.flashcardmachine.com/ and look up my username (n2739178) you should be able to see all the flash cards I've made so far.

I know it may seem tedious to go through all these cards day in day out, but I'm going to do 30-40 random flash cards a day from them (you can choose a random flash test mode on the site) until I know it all down pat. There's not a lot actually that I still have to learn for Number Properties but I've forgotten a lot of key concepts and these need to be re-cemented into my brain. The other key concepts that I do remember obviously I didn't make flash cards for.

So my aim now is to do 30-40 of these flash cards a day for each book, until I feel I've remembered almost all of it, then do all the OG questions again listed for each book. Then I'll have a cemented knowledge of the concepts and should be able to tackle the questions a lot more easily and not make as many conceptual errors.

So yeah, thought I'd share that. I used to do that at uni and in high school but I completely forgot about it. I hope this helps someone in the same boat as me (i.e. covered all the MGMAT books then forgotten half of them).

Also a tip - read and re-read each chapter in each book, no matter how tedious or boring it is to do so. I have really found this has also helped immensely to cement concepts that I either forgot or never learnt properly in the first place, some concepts even popped out of the page at me that I never noticed at all!!

And one more thing - by this stage I've done most of the end of chapter problem sets, however there were always a few questions that threw a curve-ball at me so I'm rereading the questions and I can remember which ones they were that I had a WTF moment with... so I'm redoing those questions only now (the other ones I could still remember how to do easily).

Finally my studying is on track again and I'm studying effectively. Thank god for that... Was really starting to stress out!
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Also, one more tip: I'm also going to start making these flash cards for errors I come across in the OG questions... key conceptual errors or tricks to answer those sorts of questions, so I learn the concepts involved in those problems, if that makes sense.
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just made this post before, may be helpful to some people...
mgmat-forgottent-content-revision-breakthrough-103350.html
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