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GMAT Ninja’s 13-Week Study Plan
Week 13 (4-10 hours)
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Holy poop on a stick, you’ve made it to Week 13! If you have no idea what’s going on here, then you’ll want to start with Week 1 instead.
Of the many, many people who have started the study plan with visions of a 705 dancing in their heads, far fewer than 10% will make it through the whole thing. So you’re in elite company if you’ve survived long enough to read this.
I hope that you’ve read at least a few of the inspirational debriefs along the way, because if you have, you probably know that I have sooooooooo much respect for GMAT Club members who work like crazy to achieve their goals. Now you’re one of them.
So whatever happens on test day, please be proud of the epic amount of work you’ve just done. This study plan was written by an absolute tyrant, and it takes a lot of persistence to make it through. Quite frankly, that persistence is more important to your success in life than the ability to fill in little bubbles on a standardized test.
After all of this work, you don’t just deserve a cookie. You deserve a whole 🤬 cake.
(A) Inspiration & Advice (optional)+
You’ve worked your butt off. You’ve barely relaxed for the last 13 weeks.
But guess what? Sometimes a relaxed approach to the GMAT is a good idea. Check out this story about Mr. Fat Pants, who scored a 720 on his actual GMAT but never scored above a 680 on his practice tests.
Don’t get the wrong idea: I’m not saying that you should rely on luck on test day. But if you’re nice and relaxed when you walk into the GMAT, you’re far more likely to get lucky – or at least to perform at your very best.
I mean this sincerely: whatever happens on test day, it’s an accomplishment to spend this much time gearing up for the GMAT. Even if you’re not thrilled with the result, treat yourself to a nice meal afterwards – and remember to wear your fat pants.
(B) Practice Test & Related Fun (~3-4 hrs.)+
One last practice test:
- Full mba.com test #6.
That’s it. You deserve a cookie. Or a cake. Or a croissant, golab jamun, malva pudding, ghraybeh, baklava, egg tarts, knafeh...
(C) Quant (~0-3 hrs.)+
Once again, the main focus should be on getting your body and brain rested and ready for the big day.
We’ll toss a few remaining official questions at you, but any additional quant practice is optional at this stage. If your results have been consistently good, don’t do too much heavy lifting in the final days before your exam -- just do enough practice to stay sharp.
Week 13 quant homework
1. Any remaining PS questions from the GMAT OG
2. (Optional) Only if you’re 100% CERTAIN that it’s worthwhile: do extra sets of topic-based questions as needed.
Need help with quant?
If you’re worried about quant this week, these resources might help:
That’s it. Take a bow – you’ve survived a TON of work, friends.
(D) Reading Comprehension (~0-2 hrs.)+
It’s exam time, and you should mostly be focused on getting your mind right for test day.
So extra RC practice is pretty much optional. Do enough questions to keep yourself sharp, and that’s it -- even if that means just doing a short little set of whichever OG RC questions you might have left.
Week 13 RC homework
1. Do any remaining RC questions from a recent edition of the OG. Depending on the exact edition you’re using (and the choices you’ve made about where, exactly, to end your previous practice sets of ~25 questions), you might only have one or two passages left. That’s totally fine.
2. (optional) Do a full LSAT RC set. Or just a passage or two from an LSAT set. Whatever you need to do to stay sharp and focused.
Need help with RC?
This week’s RC resources in case you need them:
(E) Critical Reasoning (~0-2 hrs.)+
Once again: the goal is for you to walk into your exam rested, relaxed, clear-headed, and confident. If you want to do a few extra CR questions to stay sharp, awesome. If you don’t need them, that’s awesome, too.
In other words: when in doubt, take it easy, and spend that extra time getting your mind right.
Week 13 CR homework
- Do any remaining CR questions from the GMAT Official Guide. Or a few loose LSAT questions, or a few questions from older editions of the OG or Verbal Guide that you haven’t seen before. But really: don’t overdo it.
Need help with CR?
If you struggled with your CR homework sets this week, here are a few of the usual resources, plus a random animal:
Congratulations, you’ve survived CR!
(F) Data Insights (~0-2 hrs.)+
This is going to sound familiar: don’t overdo it this week. You’ve put in the hard work, and now it’s time to do just enough to keep your DI mojo flowing – but no more than that. If you’re cramming at this point, you’re missing the point.
Week 13 DI assignments:
1. Any remaining DS questions from the Data Insights Review
2. Any remaining questions from GMAT Official Practice Questions - Data Insights, available for purchase at mba.com.
3. (Optional) Only if you’re CERTAIN that it’s worthwhile: do extra sets of topic-based questions as needed from the GMAT Club question banks.
Instructions for DI practice sets on (MBA.com)
Friendly warning: the MBA.com software doesn’t always work nicely with Multi-Source Reasoning questions. On the actual GMAT, you’ll always see three questions for each set of MSR tabs. But when you set up these practice sets, you might get only one question for each set of tabs, or you might get the full set of three questions.
- Access the GMAT Official Practice site at mba.com, and locate the "GMAT Official Guide 2024-2025" product (or whichever edition of the OG you’re using)
- Click the "Study" button -> "Practice Questions" in the left navigation menu -> "Start New Session" button.
- To start a session, select the "Choose the type, difficulty, and number of questions" radio button; click the checkbox to the left of the assigned question type(s) to select ALL remaining questions for that type. Keep the "Unlimited" radio button selected (under "Duration"), and select "Exam Mode" (under "Mode").
- Week 13 mba.com Official Practice Questions assignment: select DI, GI, MSR, and TA only, and do... well, do whatever you have left. Odds are good that most of them will be hard, depending on choices you’ve made earlier in the process.
- Click the "Start Practice" button. Try to hide/ignore the timers at the top of the page, since you won't have those on test day.
- After doing the assigned number of questions, click the "Pause" button at the top right -> "Pause Custom Practice" button in the popup -> "Submit and End Session" (red, scary button) to confirm.
Need help with Data Insights?
If you struggled with your DI homework sets this week, here are some things that might help:
Congratulations, you’re done!
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How to Interpret Your Week 13 Results
Is your head spinning from your final practice test... or from your actual test? If so, please keep reading.
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How to interpret your results on mba.com test #6
- Did you do WORSE on test #6 than on previous mba.com tests? If so: that’s not unusual. It just means that you care. And it probably also means that your answer might be “yes” to the next question...
- Is nervousness a factor? Is your mind going blank under the pressure of a practice test? Are you struggling to sleep the night before a practice test? If so, check out this beginner’s guide to test anxiety, this test anxiety quiz, or this YouTube playlist... and especially this video, which reminds you that when you’re nervous, it’s a sign that you care, you’re ready, and you’ve been here before.
- Remember that the whole experience changes if you’ve done test #6 before. You might not consciously recognize many questions, but I can 100% promise that you’ll be faster and more accurate on questions you’ve seen before – and you’re MUCH less likely to struggle with time management as a result. Just be prepared for the fact that you’ll struggle more with timing on a brand-new test than you did on this one.
- Don't cram at the last minute, regardless of what happened on test #6. You've generated a mountain of data over the past few months. If you've followed the plan (perhaps with some customizations), you're ready to take this test. Don't freak out about some obscure topic at the last minute -- it's a waste of your energy. If you had a letdown on test #6, it's probably a performance issue -- not a skill, knowledge, or talent issue.
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What to do about your actual GMAT result
- Take a break and wash your brains. Go enjoy life for a few days and forget about the GMAT. If you’re happy with your result, great – consider this a well-deserved vacation. If you aren’t happy with your result, that sucks – but still take a break, pat yourself on the back for working so 🤬 hard, and clear your head with a few really good, fun days. I’m serious: a really fun few days is the best thing you can do for your score in the long run.
- Take a look at your score report. This article will help you interpret your GMAT score report.
- If you’re planning to retake: write down everything you can remember as soon as you’re finished with the exam. You’ll be surprised by the volume of questions that will come spilling out from the end of your pen. As you write down those questions – or fragments of them – odds are good that you’ll notice something useful about your performance.
- If you’re THRILLED with your score: please tell us about it in the thread! And if you need a good MBA admissions consultant, reach out to us via this little corner of the GMAT Ninja website, tell us a bit about yourself, and we’ll send over the names of some of our favorite consultants at a few different companies.
- If you’re frustrated with your score: reread some of the debriefs from the first 12 weeks of the study plan. Poop happens – and it happened to almost every test-taker that we’ve featured in the study plan. So give yourself some time to reflect and reset, and then get back to work once you're refreshed and reenergized. I promise that good things will eventually happen if you do.
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Thanks for another very insightful post. I have a follow up question - Is there a reason test # 6 has been singled out in this post? Is it because test #1 to #5 share a pool of question bank, and test # 6 has its own different bank?
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