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The average GMAT student improves by less than 30 points when re-taking the exam , according to GMAC data. So be prepared for some serious work. We’ll repeat that last part: be ready to work HARD . If you're not dedicated to your GMAT studies, this isn't for you. Ready to get started? Buckle up. Watch this video first! Here’s a video that explains what the study plan is and – more importantly – how best to use it. You’ll save a ton of time in the long run if you watch the video BEFORE getting started. So please don’t skip this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYJmeIJAm4 - What You’ll Need Resources you’ll need before starting the study plan: GMAT Official Guide 2024-2025 bundle . An official LSAT book. ( Here’s why. ) This one would be a good choice, but any of the LSAT books with 10 full, official LSAT tests is OK. You could also buy an online subscription to the LSAT library here . Set up an error log of some sort. Use the built in Error Log at GMAT Club , here are some options , and click here to download a version of the minimalist tracker we use with our private tutoring students at GMAT Ninja (click on File --> Make a copy, please). Use anything you’d like. But use something. Here are additional practice resources you’ll eventually want to purchase, but they can wait until later in the process: Official mba.com practice exams . There are 6 (4 paid, 2 free), and you’ll eventually want all of them. Official mba.com practice questions GMAT Club tests (or other non-official practice tests for quant only) Optional: Forum Quiz for targeted practice of some topics Optional, but recommended: GMAT simulation pad if you’re planning to take the GMAT in a test center; If you’re planning to take the GMAT online, you might want to buy a whiteboard that fits the requirements for the online GMAT exam , such as this one . If you’ve already exhausted the official guides , you’re in a tough spot for Data Insights, unfortunately – pretty much every official DI question is already included in the study plan. However, you could use older editions for quant and verbal – OG 12 and the 2nd edition of the quant and verbal guides would be decent options, but you’ll want to skip the geometry. If you have questions, feel free to ask in the thread, and we’ll do our best to help. 1. If you have NOT taken the GMAT or any official practice tests: take mba.com test #1 The goal: establish a baseline score so that you know how far you are from your target. When you’re finished, please don’t review or redo individual questions , since you might want to retake this exam in a month or two, and it’s best if you don’t remember the questions well. It is, however, OK to take a broad look at your struggles. Did you miss far more questions of one type than another? Are you significantly farther from your score goal on one section than the other? For more, please read the 2nd post in this thread . 2. If you’ve taken an actual GMAT exam, please make sure you understand what your score report is telling you. Check out this article to help you analyze your GMAT score report. Or, watch us analyze a GMAC executive's actual score report in this video . If you’ve never taken the GMAT -- or you don’t have a detailed score report from an attempt at the old GMAT -- no problem. Just skip this task, and everything will be fine. 3. Figure out how many points you’d like to gain on the quant, verbal, and DI sections. If you need to gain FAR more points on one section than the others, use that information to guide your studies. If you’re weaker at verbal, please do less quant and DI homework, and spend more time on “optional” verbal assignments and videos. If you’re weaker in quant or DI, you’ll want to focus on those sections. Keep in mind that all three sections are weighted equally in determining your composite GMAT score . For more details, check out this one-minute video on why 3 = 20 in the GMAT scoring system . That’s it. If you’ve recently taken official practice (or actual) tests and you understand how far you are from your goals, that’s great – just move on to the homework. You’re probably going to hate this. We have only two goals on quant in Week 1: 1. Ensure that you NEVER make sloppy errors. 2. Check on your arithmetic and algebra foundations. Here’s why: 1. On an adaptive test like the GMAT, careless errors can DESTROY your score. To learn why, check out this video on GMAT time management (6 mins.) or this one on score-killing errors (59 mins.). These videos were made for the old, pre-2024 version of the GMAT, but the punchlines are still spot-on. 2. If you’re unhappy with your quant (or DI) score, you’re probably making careless errors. And you probably don’t pay enough attention to them. 3. Arithmetic and/or algebra are embedded in nearly every quant (and quant-based DI) question, and if those fundamentals are shaky, you’ll be in trouble. I know: this isn’t sexy. You probably won’t enjoy this. But if you perform well, the homework will get more interesting next week. How to approach quant homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through . Do every set with test-like intensity , but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet. 2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. (We’ll say more below about how and when to redo the questions you missed.) Week 1 quant homework By design, these practice sets are mostly short, and they should FEEL easy . So you shouldn’t make any mistakes at all, right? Um... right? 1. Watch this video (34 minutes) on how to approach GMAT quant and data sufficiency . 2. (Optional, but recommended) Videos: how to get better at studying for GMAT quant (8 mins) | GMAT arithmetic (49 mins) | GMAT algebra (70+ mins) 3. (Optional, but recommended) Do a set of 10 general systems of linear equations, which you can generate here . If you’re not efficiently getting 100% of them right (in less than 15 minutes per set of 10), keep doing sets of 10 until you can ace them. 4. (Optional, but also highly recommended) If you’re rusty on quadratics factoring, solve this set of 10 basic quadratic equations . If you need more practice, you can generate more worksheets here ; select as many "Quadratics --> simple factorable" exercises as you need. 5. A set of 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions, available here . Yes, they’re easy. That’s exactly the point – please don’t make any sloppy mistakes! 6. Official Guide Problem Solving #1-25 7. A set of 25 sub-555 arithmetic PS questions, available here 8. (Very, very optional) Quant section only from the GMAT Club tests or another NON-official source (save the remaining mba.com exams for later!) What to do AFTER completing a quant homework set 1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch. Do your best to “wash your brains” and pretend that you’ve never seen the questions before. If you get most of the questions RIGHT the second time: you’re probably making careless errors, and fixing them needs to be your #1 area of focus. See below for some videos that might help. If you miss a question twice, don’t overreact. Obsessively studying individual questions drains a TON of your study time – if you miss a particular question, you’ll probably never see anything quite like it again. So focus on GENERAL takeaways on how to improve -- don’t spend hours memorizing steps for individual questions. For more on how to interpret your results, see the next post in this thread . Need help with quant? If you make careless errors or struggle on the content this week, these resources might help: 1. If you’re making careless errors, this video on how to approach GMAT quant (also in the Week 1 quant homework list) is essential viewing. 2. If you’re struggling with the fundamental content this week, check out this GMAT arithmetic video or this algebra video . 3. GMAT Club Math Book: full pdf | algebra section 4. Heroic quant threads from Bunuel : Ultimate GMAT Quant Megathread | Signature Question Collection | All You Need for Quant In Week 1, your goal is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to GMAT RC questions. We’ll start with a video and article to help you understand how to approach RC passages, and then give you some nice long, hard RC sets so that you can put our advice into practice. How to approach RC homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through . Do every set with test-like intensity , but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet. 2. 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Pay special attention to errors that surprised you – did you somehow make a silly mistake? If you missed three or more questions on a particular passage, you might consider redoing the entire passage from scratch. If you do better the second time, ask yourself: what should you have done differently the first time? For more on how to interpret your RC results, check out the 2nd post in this thread . Need help with RC? If you struggled with your RC homework sets this week, here are some resources that might help: Beginner’s guide to RC YouTube video on how to approach RC , or a similar, newer RC basics video . All GMAT Ninja RC resources More RC explanations than anybody should ever read A whole lot of YouTube videos on many topics , or an RC-specific video course If you read the RC section above, this is going to sound very, very familiar. In Week 1, your goal is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to GMAT CR questions. We’ll start with a video and article, and follow that with some HARD practice. Enjoy! How to approach CR homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through . Do every set with test-like intensity , but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet. 2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. Week 1 CR homework 1. Watch this video on how to approach CR or read this beginner’s guide to CR , which covers the same ideas. (~ 1 hr.) 2. Do a full LSAT CR set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr). Click here to learn why we assign LSAT sets for GMAT students . 3. (Optional, but recommended) One additional LSAT CR set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr) 4. (Very optional) Do 15-20 CR from older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition here . What to do AFTER completing a CR homework set 1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch. 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Hi GMATNinja, I would really appreciate your guidance on a question regarding DI assignments:

Starting from Week 5, we have (optional) set of 15 or 10 question on Graph & Table or TPA, for example, from the GMAT Club question bank. However the search results often return hundreds of questions, much more than the number required for the practice set.

Would you have any advice on how to further narrow down the question selection for practice? Alternatively, are there any sources that you would recommend, outside of OG and GMAT Prep questions?

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GMATNinja, Thanks for the plan. I quickly went through contents of all weeks and looks like there are 17 RC sets, 18 CR sets from LSATs for practice. Yet you suggested that 1 book (preferably tests 29-38) is adequate. The book contains only 10 RC sets. Do you recommend purchasing a second book?

(Verbal) As for questions from older OG versions in some weeks are the links provided to GMAT club questions the same? Or do we need to purchase an older OG for this?

Good question. Somewhat hilariously, I hadn't counted those RC sets.

If I'm not mistaken, one book of 10 LSATs will be enough if you're skipping the optional homework; if you do the optional stuff, you'll want to buy a second LSAT book. Alternatively, you could access tests through LSAC's LawHub, though only four of those tests are available for free at the moment.

For the older OG questions, you don't need another book. The links to the GMAT Club collections includes a random handful of questions, and the idea is that you can just use those, without buying anything else.

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Hello, GMATNinja could I please ask a question, should I repeat every homework for each given week every day? I mean for example the homework for Quant Week 1 is

5. A set of 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions, available here. Yes, they’re easy. That’s exactly the point – please don’t make any sloppy mistakes!
6. Official Guide Problem Solving #1-25
7. A set of 25 sub-555 arithmetic PS questions, available here

Should I do these sets every day for the first week?

Thank you very much for your clarification !

Nope, the assignments are for an entire week. So if you're trying to follow the plan strictly, you have a full seven days to do everything on each week's list. You definitely don't need to repeat the same thing every day!

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Haven't got any homework. Am I doing something wrong here?

I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you go to the original post and click on the plus signs for each heading, the homework assignments will open up. Let us know if that doesn't address your question, and we'll do our best to help.

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Yeah, the idea is that you're free to choose whichever of those questions you'd like. Presumably, most people will just do the 10 or 15 at the top -- and that's admittedly pretty arbitrary, but hey, at least the questions are free.

The trouble with verbal and DI is that it's incredibly difficult for test-prep companies to produce questions that mimic the actual exam. GMAC spends thousands of dollars drafting, editing, and testing each official test question; even the very best test-prep companies can't possibly compete with that. (Quant questions are much easier to write -- they might not be perfectly test-like, but it's not hard to create questions that are at least useful.)

So I guess I'm saying that if you're doing non-official DI questions, be prepared for some imperfections. I don't know that any particular source is substantially better than the others, so just do whichever you can get your hands on, and see how it goes. Again, the questions won't be perfect, but hopefully they'll help a bit.

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Hi, I cannot find my homework even though I have subscribed email. Can anyone help me with this

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Hi - is the LSAT worth? I see that the post which recommends it is from 2017.
Would it be more useful the Manhattan Prep Verbal books?

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Hi,

I am looking for guidance on the week 1 LSAT Homework for the RC and CRs for now. I have the 10 LSAT Preptest book that was suggested at the beginning.
The official exams have 4 sections, with the number of questions changing each year exam. Does it matter what section out of the 4 I am practising? And cool if I pick questions from the next section to complete the 25 question sets? It says right at the beginning that the sections are RC, Analytical Reasoning, and 2 Logical Reasoning sections. Sorry if its a naive question.

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There will be 1 RC section per test (about 25 questions on average), and 1 or 2 CR section(s) per test (about 25 questions per section on average; also called as Logical reasoning on LSATs).

As per study plan the requirement is to practice one section according to the given task. So if in the plan one of the tasks is 1 RC set (of 25 questions) you need to complete one entire RC section in one LSAT test, in one session (usually under 60 mins). Analytical reasoning is not needed and out of scope for GMAT prep.

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Thanks for the response and your time.

I get that, yes.

But I am observing that RC and CR based questions are possibly mixed in a section? Unless I am wrong. Anyone else experiencing this? I guess my general focus should be just to resolve these properly and move on. I am enjoying the process.

My concern is just that I don't want to miss something if I should not while prepping from week 1 on...

Until next time,
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You don't need to register for anything now. On the top of first page, there are links to Weeks 2 through 13, so you have access the full study plan.

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Perhaps GMATNinja could answer that. I too like you am in the weekly prep. So far CR and RC are kept separate in all weeks and looks like the idea behind preparing so is to develop a consistent approach in tackling respective question types. Eventually, maybe you would be able to handle as they come, having done so many LSAT sets and Official questions.

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Just a FYI, at least for the week 1 Quant section, "#5 A set of 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions" and others, keep a record of your questions.

I went back today to revisit my sloppy mistakes based on my Error Log and the questions are all mixed up with the rest. I do not have the same sequence or questions as I did in the past. Possibly a waste of time to search again.

Please let me know if I am missing anything.

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That's spot-on, bkasyap! When you get to practice exams, there will be plenty of opportunities to tackle these questions in mixed sets, but in the early stages, the priority is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to questions. If your process and results are wonderfully consistent on CR- and RC-only sets, it's not a big step to transfer that consistency to mixed sets.

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Yes, that's a limitation of the study plan, and I'm not quite sure what to do about it. We've prioritized free resources whenever possible, so those links to "25 algebra PS questions" (or whatever the details might be) inevitably yield a semi-random set of questions. That means that the data is a little bit hard to interpret, since every set is a little bit different -- and unless you're tracking the questions you've answered (perhaps using built-in tools on GMAT Club, which will show you which questions you've answered directly on the website), it's easy to lose track of what you've done.

For now, my best advice is to answer the questions using the "timers" on the forum itself. That way, you'll have a record of everything you've done, and can return to any questions that gave you trouble. But if anybody else out there has other ideas, we'd love to hear them.

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Hi - is the LSAT worth? I see that the post which recommends it is from 2017.
Would it be more useful the Manhattan Prep Verbal books?

Thanks!

Yes, it's definitely still worth it. This study plan was posted in 2025 -- and everything in this article still 100% applies, even though the article is older. Also, because the LSAT is a standardized test, it's really easy to compare data from one LSAT set to the next -- and if you're self-studying, that's absolutely priceless.

I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!

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In week 1 homework, it is written - "Official Guide Problem Solving #1-25" What does this mean? I have GMAT Official Guide 2025 - 2026 and GMAT Official Guide Quant Review 2025 - 2026. Should I do 25 practice questions of any 1 of these 2?

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Refers to big book, also called OG. It is explicitly mentioned if and when Quant/Verbal/DI official guide has to be used.

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Hi,
Is there a specific post where we can find the 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions mentioned above? When I click the link above, I see a long list of posts each with one question in general. Does this mean I need to select random 25 questions or is there a specific post that has 25 sub-555 questions that corresponds to the task above ?

Thank you !

Here is th link mentioned above:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/search.php?selected_search_tags%5B%5D=217&selected_search_tags%5B%5D=1519&selected_search_tags%5B%5D=50&t=0&search_tags=exact&submit=Search

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A very detailed and informative plan. Thank you!

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I went through the LSAT sets of RC and CR, and I am scoring around 60%. However, I have no clue why they are wrong because there is explanation for the answers and as a result I don't understand what to enter in the error logs.

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Yeah, that’s a common issue with the LSAT tests. You can google them, probably the best first shot/option to get the explanations.

But I would not go to LSAT if you have GMAT material available with explanations. I assume you don’t?

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