Yudhajit22
I’m about to begin the GMAT Ninja study plan, but I have a few questions before getting started.
I’ve already taken the official GMAT in 2025 and scored 605. My target score is 695+.
Do you have any suggestions on how I can tweak this study plan to maximize my improvement? My weaker areas are Data Insights and Verbal.
Additionally, I already own the GMATTM Official Guide 2025–2026 Data Insights Review (online question bank), the hard copy of the Official Quant Review, and the Official Verbal Review 2022. However, I’ve already worked through most of these questions and remember many of them.
Given that, would it still make sense to purchase the GMAT Official Guide 2025–2026 bundle (eBook + online question bank)?
Great questions. If quant is a strength for you, it would probably make sense to skip quite a bit of the quant content, and focus mainly on DI and verbal. Especially in the first few weeks of the study plan, there's a lot of topic-based practice that you might not really need. Just make sure that you're doing enough quant to stay sharp, and make sure that you're not killing yourself with careless errors -- even a tiny number of them can hurt your score pretty badly. Other than that, skip the quant as much as you'd like.
If I'm reading your post correctly, it sounds like you've done the skinny little quant/DI/verbal supplements, but not the main OG? If that's the case, just pick up a copy of the OG itself, and don't worry about the rest of the bundle. The 2025-26 Official Verbal Review still has a fair amount of overlap with the 2022 edition -- maybe 60% of the CR and RC questions will be the same, give or take. So you could grab the verbal guide mostly for the 40%(ish) of questions that are new to you, in theory.
As you'll see in the study plan, I'm a big fan of LSAT questions if you need extra reps on CR and RC. So that might give you better bang for your buck than the verbal guide.
I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!