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GMAT Ninja 13-Week Study Plan (Focus ed.) Week 1: Start Here 20 Jul 2026, 16:59
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Hi GMAT Ninja,

I've been following your 13-week plan, and yesterday I finished week 3. I ran into a point of doubt that's been causing me a bit of anxiety over the past few days haha

When doing the 25-question sets for Quant and DS, I selected ~15 mixed-difficulty questions, and I performed noticeably worse on the sub-555 ones (as expected). From what I understood of the plan, this is normal and I'll have time to work on this later on. However, when I looked at the schedules for the upcoming weeks, I couldn't find content-focused lessons on the specific topics I struggled with. So I'm not sure whether I should pause now and try to study those topics to improve on the harder questions (I got 80-100% right on the easy and medium ones), or whether those topics will be covered at some point down the line.

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First, I'm wondering if there's a typo in here: did you actually perform worse on the sub-555 questions, or did you mean to say that you performed better on those easier ones? I'll assume the latter, but let me know if that's not right.

I wouldn't overreact to errors on those mixed difficulty sets. Those sets are free, and that's good. The downside: the questions come from a mix of sources, and there's a chance that you'll see some weird or hard questions that really aren't worth much of your time. Also, some of the tags aren't perfect, so you might see questions that don't fit perfectly with what we might expect from a certain topic area.

So I would think of it this way:

  • If you make mistakes on questions that are easy for you, that's the apocalypse, as discussed throughout the study plan. So give those a disproportionate amount of your energy, please.
  • The study plan is pretty comprehensive when it comes to quant topics. So almost anything that appears frequently on the actual exam will also appear somewhere in the study plan, usually accompanied by a video if you choose to watch it.
  • Does the GMAT include oddities that aren't emphasized anywhere in the study plan? Sure. Will you see some in those random sets? Yup. But don't spend too much time on those questions unless you're sure that they're worth your time. If you keep missing similar questions because of conceptual weaknesses, they'll be worth some of your time at some point -- even if it's not until later in the study plan. But when you struggle with something just once, I wouldn't recommend sinking much time into it yet.

I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!
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First, I'm wondering if there's a typo in here: did you actually perform worse on the sub-555 questions, or did you mean to say that you performed better on those easier ones? I'll assume the latter, but let me know if that's not right.

I wouldn't overreact to errors on those mixed difficulty sets. Those sets are free, and that's good. The downside: the questions come from a mix of sources, and there's a chance that you'll see some weird or hard questions that really aren't worth much of your time. Also, some of the tags aren't perfect, so you might see questions that don't fit perfectly with what we might expect from a certain topic area.

So I would think of it this way:

  • If you make mistakes on questions that are easy for you, that's the apocalypse, as discussed throughout the study plan. So give those a disproportionate amount of your energy, please.
  • The study plan is pretty comprehensive when it comes to quant topics. So almost anything that appears frequently on the actual exam will also appear somewhere in the study plan, usually accompanied by a video if you choose to watch it.
  • Does the GMAT include oddities that aren't emphasized anywhere in the study plan? Sure. Will you see some in those random sets? Yup. But don't spend too much time on those questions unless you're sure that they're worth your time. If you keep missing similar questions because of conceptual weaknesses, they'll be worth some of your time at some point -- even if it's not until later in the study plan. But when you struggle with something just once, I wouldn't recommend sinking much time into it yet.

I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!
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Thanks for getting back to me!

And yes, I wrote that in a rush and actually said the opposite of what I meant: I've been getting 95-100% right on the easy ones, and it varies between 60-80% on the medium and hard ones, often also focusing on getting the question right rather than paying much attention to time for now.

I'll go with that approach then, tracking my progress, and if I feel the need to reinforce any particular area further down the line, I'll spend some time on the topics that need the most work.

Thanks!
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Hi GMATNinja, I've just started re-solving my incorrect questions, but I've noticed a pattern: I get them wrong again when solving them under timed conditions, yet when I work without a time limit, I can solve them correctly without looking at the solutions, and very quickly. How can I improve in this area?
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Hi GMATNinja, I was able to re-solve my incorrect questions for week 1 and they were mostly careless errors due to rushing through them along with timer anxiety, so does this mean that I am now done with my careless errors? and should I move to next week or should I solve another fresh set of 25 questions from week 1?
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Hi GMATNinja, I was able to re-solve my incorrect questions for week 1 and they were mostly careless errors due to rushing through them along with timer anxiety, so does this mean that I am now done with my careless errors? and should I move to next week or should I solve another fresh set of 25 questions from week 1?
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I'm struggling to restrain myself from quoting really old South Park episodes, even though they have nothing to do with your GMAT situation. :)

The short answer: the most important task you face right now is learning how to avoid making those careless errors in the first place. Until you can CONSISTENTLY get through practice sets without a single careless mistake, you'll have no chance of reaching your full potential on this exam.

It stinks, but that's the reality of an adaptive test like the GMAT: if you make sloppy errors, it doesn't matter how good you are at the hard questions, because you'll never even see them.

So dig into the underlying habits and anxieties that cause the carelessness, and make perfect execution (miss all the hard ones you want, but don't ever make a sloppy mistake) your main focus for now. There's little point in moving on to harder stuff or practice exams until you've stamped out the errors on questions you're capable of answering correctly.

I hope that helps a bit!


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