GMAT Last Month before Exam Prep

Hello, HNel. You are starting at a very high point, so you should be thinking of refinement rather than heavy practice, one step at a time. At such a high level of performance, one or two questions can make a big difference in score, especially on the Verbal side. If you have kept track of your errors, why not set aside some time at least twice a week to go back over these questions and study them inside and out? It is not good enough to know how to spot correct answers. You have to get to the bottom of what had misled you in the first place, what had persuaded you to chase an incorrect line of reasoning. Your progress will be much slower if you think that you can simply refine as you go. Sure, I advocate additional practice, but do so in between review. It is easy to blitz through more questions, quite challenging to sit yourself down and deconstruct something to which you may already know the answer.

Since you have combed through all questions from the OG, I am guessing you mean those from whichever edition you may have purchased. You can also practice questions from older editions, using the Practice Question Banks or even a master SC OG spreadsheet that I created. Just use such resources for the purpose at hand: there is no need to complete every question.

Your next two weeks should be productive ones, and I would set my sights on taking another mock. Two mock scores are somewhat predictive of where you could end up, but greater reliability comes from a fuller set of data from which to draw. The third week could mark the beginning of a taper, in terms of study volume, and the week of the exam, you want to relax as much as you can, completing very few new questions and not obsessing over every little issue that has prevented you from putting in a perfect performance in the past.

I am sure others will offer their views. Look for consistency in the responses. No one way is the correct one, but overstudy can hurt just as much as a lack of study. Your goal should be to study with purpose, not to simply log more training hours.

Good luck.

- Andrew