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@bb, @hr1212, if i switch off the timed mode, will i be able to continue in the study mode once i have run out of time?
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Seeking suggestion regarding strategy to review error log, to get maximum result in least time:
1. After attempting a set of questions, immediately review the incorrect ones. And then after one week or later attempt the accumulated incorrect questions. OR
2. Review the error log at the end of day and re-attempt the incorrect ones.

I usually go for (1) above. If any one has other suggestions or feedback please share your thoughts.
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Seeking suggestion regarding strategy to review error log, to get maximum result in least time:
1. After attempting a set of questions, immediately review the incorrect ones. And then after one week or later attempt the accumulated incorrect questions. OR
2. Review the error log at the end of day and re-attempt the incorrect ones.

I usually go for (1) above. If any one has other suggestions or feedback please share your thoughts.

Hey dp1234,

First of all, there are different approaches that tend to work for different people so I suggest getting different feedback and trying it out to see what works best for your mindset, and what leverage is your strengths. For example, I get bored very easily so doing long sets of questions is almost a nonstarter for me so I would do 10 question quizzes to test myself on the topic. That’s probably two Spartan because it’s hard to for example hit every idea concept and type for words problems for example but it does work for fractions and roots and smaller topics like that.

My approach was quality versus quantity. When they say quality, I don’t mean quality of questions but I mean quality of focus and mistake eradication. My rule was that if I make a mistake, I must not make it again. So making one mistake was enough of a pattern for me to start investigating and pursuing the root cause, I did not need to make 10 mistakes to spot a pattern.

So again, may or may not work for your personality and study style, but any time I would make a mistake, I would print out the question and I would write out in a couple words the reason I made a mistake and what mitigation steps I have put in place that will preclude me from making this mistake again.

I would then have a stack of 10 or 20 papers for the week and I would review them every day. Now I would not solve them or attempt them because I knew the solutions and I knew the answer choices but instead my task was looking at the question, recognizing the mistake where I made the mistake and telling myself why I will not make this mistake again, so for example if you’re working on quant, and I made a calculation mistake, I would do a secondary check on an important step or I would remind myself that I made this calculation mistake so I would slow down. And generally, because I put a mitigation step in place which while perhaps slowing me down on the test would result in higher accuracy. I almost never made the same mistake again except a few careless mistakes which I allowed myself to keep making until the very end mostly because I did not know how to deal with them. (those were unique to my brain so it’s not worth going into those 😂)

And I would review that stack of mistakes daily, every afternoon or every time I ate lunch.

I would then drop most of them except the most annoying or concerning ones and those would go to the next week the rest would go into archive. I would sometimes pull out some of them from archive for a review later but again I would not solve the questions realistically because I remembered how to solve them so I would maybe walk through solution steps and how to make those steps correctly but I feel like the purpose of mistakes for me was more about showing the treacherous spot rather than re-attempting a question I already know how to solve.

And I appreciated every mistake because every mistake I could uncover it during my preparation and prepared for meant it would be one less mistake I would make on my Real Exam.
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Thanks BB for such detailed insight. I was probably not going to such depth in reviewing the errors. And was certainly not putting mitigation checks so often. Will now consider reviewing the errors multiple times, with depth, that will help.
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Thanks BB for such detailed insight. I was probably not going to such depth in reviewing the errors. And was certainly not putting mitigation checks so often. Will now consider reviewing the errors multiple times, with depth, that will help.
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See if this works for you. It’s definitely not something you can do if you attempt 100 questions per day but depending on your learning style and how fast your mind spots patterns, you may be able to get away with a smaller number of questions.

My suggestion will be picking one topic I’m getting really good at it so you can sort of build a model of how to approach the rest of it and then you would just replicate without innovating or much thinking as long as you can build the initial successful model.

By the way, this is not related at all to what you have asked but a very common mistake among testtakers is not following instructions or strategies for solving questions exactly as they are provided. So if you’re taking a course or using Manhattan books and they have a certain approach, do not try to be smarter than the instructor and value engineer the strategy down to something that does not work. There’s a reason the strategy has certain steps and even if you do not understand that reason, that’s usually not good enough reason to modify the strategy. If you’re not using any books or a course, you’re in a little bit steeper learning curve because you’ll have to discover many of these tips and strategies and question approaches. These tend to be more important in verbal. And has mentioned before, don’t neglect easy and medium questions and skip to the hard ones right away though I see you’ve been a member for a long time so you have either already made that mistake and learned or you did not make that mistake at all 😇 so this is more of a message for the lurkers.
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Hi,

Sharing a quick update on where I currently stand in my prep.

I’m comfortable with core quant concepts and can handle medium to some hard-level questions when I stay focused. In fact, I’ve noticed that I sometimes perform better on tougher questions when I slow down and think clearly.

However, my main issue right now is execution. I tend to make avoidable mistakes — misreading conditions, rushing through questions, or missing key constraints. This shows up especially in medium-level questions, which I know are critical.

In verbal, RC seems relatively stable, but CR has been inconsistent. In some sets I perform well, but in others (especially weaken/evaluate), I either overthink or go slightly outside the argument.

Overall, it feels like the gap is not conceptual but more about consistency, accuracy, and maintaining focus under pressure.

Currently, I’m following the ongoing weekly plan while also doing some light backfill from earlier topics to strengthen fundamentals.

Would love to see how this aligns with your expectations for this stage.
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Hi,

Sharing a quick update on where I currently stand in my prep.

I’m comfortable with core quant concepts and can handle medium to some hard-level questions when I stay focused. In fact, I’ve noticed that I sometimes perform better on tougher questions when I slow down and think clearly.

However, my main issue right now is execution. I tend to make avoidable mistakes — misreading conditions, rushing through questions, or missing key constraints. This shows up especially in medium-level questions, which I know are critical.

In verbal, RC seems relatively stable, but CR has been inconsistent. In some sets I perform well, but in others (especially weaken/evaluate), I either overthink or go slightly outside the argument.

Overall, it feels like the gap is not conceptual but more about consistency, accuracy, and maintaining focus under pressure.

Currently, I’m following the ongoing weekly plan while also doing some light backfill from earlier topics to strengthen fundamentals.

Would love to see how this aligns with your expectations for this stage.
Hi @Littlegenie
I was facing similar issues in CR, and I figured out the gap was not conceptual but structural as in how to go about the question in steps.

1. Read the question stem and identify the conclusion/argument and the support for it.
2. Be clear on what the question is asking us to evaluate
3. Pre-think for a bit on what could be 1 of the ways to fill the gap in the argument
NOTE - the answer may not align with your pre-thinking, but it sets up your brain to look for similar reasoning.
4. Evaluate the options in 2 steps.
a) Firstly, eliminate the options that are obvious, in most cases you will be able to eliminate 3 options
b) In the second round of evaluating the options focus on the options that you weren’t able to eliminate and evaluate them critically by linking them with the gap in argument that we had identified earlier.

These steps helped me set up consistency, it takes a bit longer in the beginning, but soon you get used to it and the process speeds up.
Hope this helps!
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Anyone planning to buy TTP for first time? Let me know, I have one 30% off coupon with me
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Hi...Im solving qs in gmat club quiz...created a quiz of 10 qs...however at the end of the quiz its showing 12 qs solved...marking the repeated one...one correct and one wrong...
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Hi...Im solving qs in gmat club quiz...created a quiz of 10 qs...however at the end of the quiz its showing 12 qs solved...marking the repeated one...one correct and one wrong...
While giving the quiz, you may have marked the incorrect one first and then the correct one or vice versa.
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Hi @Littlegenie
I was facing similar issues in CR, and I figured out the gap was not conceptual but structural as in how to go about the question in steps.

1. Read the question stem and identify the conclusion/argument and the support for it.
2. Be clear on what the question is asking us to evaluate
3. Pre-think for a bit on what could be 1 of the ways to fill the gap in the argument
NOTE - the answer may not align with your pre-thinking, but it sets up your brain to look for similar reasoning.
4. Evaluate the options in 2 steps.
a) Firstly, eliminate the options that are obvious, in most cases you will be able to eliminate 3 options
b) In the second round of evaluating the options focus on the options that you weren’t able to eliminate and evaluate them critically by linking them with the gap in argument that we had identified earlier.

These steps helped me set up consistency, it takes a bit longer in the beginning, but soon you get used to it and the process speeds up.
A similar structured approach in quant can help avoid silly mistakes as well.

Hope this helps!
Hi @ dev 06 thank you soo much. Really appreciate your effort to share your experience. Will practice in this structure and will share progress.thank you
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Hi @bb and Team,
I took a quiz and intentionally opted for one passage (I wanted to time myself). However, when the quiz started, the timer was set to 6 minutes and there was only one question. I’m not able to understand why this happened.
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While choosing filters for solving CR questions, what are recommended filters to be put on the "Source". Currently, I am selecting OG any other source which comes close to OG?
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You can include manhattan, kaplan. If wanted can include LSAT as well if you find OG to be easy.
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Is there any other source to purchase manhattan guide other than the official website?
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You can try amazon, they may have 8th Edition.
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