GMAT Ninja's 13-Week Study Plan (2024-25 ed.) Week 3

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GMAT Ninja’s 13-Week Study Plan  
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Welcome back for Week 3 of the study plan! If you have no idea what’s going on here, then you’ll want to start with  Week 1  instead.

For the rest of you: it’s Week 3. Things are getting serious and we’re introducing some fresh Data Insights question types, so it’ll become just a bit harder to choose how to spend your time.

So please think carefully about your weaknesses before you dive into the homework – and certainly before you spend an eternity reviewing individual questions.

Especially if you’re starting to feel frustrated with verbal, check out  this debrief from beloved GMAT Club moderator   gmatexam439  who had “a very long and fruitful journey from V21 to V41.”

It’s a longer debrief, but there’s some great stuff in here about his mindset leading into the test, and how connecting with other GMAT Club members helped him get over the hump. It’s worth a read if you’re worried about verbal – or if you’re feeling isolated in general. 
   
You’ve done some serious studying, and now it’s time to start thinking about “non-academic” elements of your performance. To be at your very, very best on test day, you’ll want to look in some unexpected places.

At least 40% of adults suffer from some form of test anxiety, and if you’re seeing  a dropoff from your practice exams to your actual GMAT , odds are good that anxiety plays a role.

The time investment here is small – less than 30 minutes. Even if you don’t feel consciously nervous when you take tests, we very strongly recommend the first few items on the list for  everybody .
 
1.  A 4-minute video on how to overcome GMAT test anxiety , with an emphasis on helping you understand what test anxiety really is
2.  A 3-minute video on how mindfulness meditation can help your GMAT performance 
3. (Optional, but recommended)  A 10-minute quiz to help you think about the factors that can contribute to test anxiety 
4. (Optional)  A beginner’s guide to GMAT test anxiety

Here’s the deal in Week 3:
 
1. We’ll emphasize specific quant topics in Weeks 1-9 only. This week’s topics are exponents and roots. Enjoy.
2. We’ll work on adding flexibility to your quant approach as the questions get harder.
3. As always, you’ll need to ensure that you don’t make  score-killing  silly errors. Nothing else matters much until the sloppy errors are GONE.

Still not sexy, right? But we’re turning the corner from fundamental algebra to word problems, and the difficulty level will start ticking upwards for most of you.

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.

Week 3 quant homework 
Be honest with yourself: did you make silly errors on quant in Week 2? If you make boneheaded errors on, say, 5-10% of questions, that’s WAY too much on an adaptive test like the GMAT. Now’s the time to eradicate the sloppiness, before quant practice tests start in the coming weeks.

If you’re making a lot of careless errors, choose the sub-600 sets until you STOP MAKING CARELESS ERRORS. If you’re free of sloppy errors, you can choose mixed difficulty on items #8-11. We’d recommend keeping a few easy ones in there for now though, just to make sure that you don’t get complacent.

Also, this list gives you plenty of freedom. If you need extra help on quant (but not verbal), great – tackle extra sets from items #1-4 and #8-12. If you’re doing relatively well on quant, focus on extra verbal homework instead, please.
 
1. (Optional, but recommended) Video:  Developing a Flexible Quant Mindset  (~ 1 hr.)
2. (Optional) Video:  Exponents with Peyton Manning’s Doppelgänger  (~ 1 hr.)
3. (Optional) Video:  Word Problems with Harry  (~1 hr)
4. GMAT Official Guide Problem Solving #51-75
5. GMAT Quant Guide (skinny little book) Problem Solving #26-50
6. Do 20 exponents PS questions.  Sub-555 level  |  Mixed difficulty 
7. Do 20 roots PS questions.  Sub-555 level  |  Mixed difficulty 
8. (Optional) Do 20 Word Problems PS questions.  Sub-555 level  |  Mixed difficulty 
9. (Very, very optional) Quant section only from the GMAT Club tests or another NON-official source (save the 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. Try 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 priority. 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 (probably very familiar) video on how to approach GMAT quant  is essential viewing.
2. If you’re feeling inefficient, the video on  Developing a Flexible Quant Mindset  is probably a good fit.
3. If you’re struggling with the fundamental content this week, check out these videos on  exponents  or  word translations in general . If quant topics from previous weeks are giving you trouble, whatever you need is probably in this first half of  this playlist .
4.  GMAT Club Math Book 
5. Heroic quant threads from  Bunuel :  Ultimate GMAT Quant Megathread  |  Signature Question Collection  |  All You Need for Quant

In Week 3, we’ll try to ease any pain you might have on culture and literature passages. Maybe they scare you, and maybe they don’t. If they don’t, great – feel free to skip the video and the topic-specific homework, and do more RC practice sections instead.

As always, your process for RC shouldn’t change at all based on the passage type -- or your mood, or the weather, or what you had for breakfast (speaking of which:  this is my favorite sports team ever , for obvious reasons). The goal on RC is always to develop a 100% consistent approach to reading -- and that’s harder than it sounds.

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. 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 to analyze your results.)

Week 3 RC homework 
 
1. (Optional, but recommended if you’re intimidated by certain passage types) Watch  this video on conquering your fear of literature & cultural passages  or  this one with a better beard .
2. (Optional) Do 3 “humanities” passages from older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition  here .
3. One full LSAT RC set. You know you love it.
4. Do the first ~25 questions from a recent edition of the Official GMAT Verbal Review Guide (skinny little book –  this thing ). The page numbers will vary depending on which edition you’re using, and it’s OK to do a little bit more or less than 25 questions so that you don’t stop partway into a passage. These will feel MUCH easier than the LSAT.
5. (Optional) One more LSAT RC set.

What to do AFTER completing an RC homework set

Don’t obsess over the questions you missed.  You’re never going to see these passages again, and you don’t want to burn too much time reviewing them. 
 Instead, focus on general patterns. Did you miss a bunch of primary purpose questions? Inference questions? Did you get intimidated by certain types of passages (like humanities/culture/literature)? Did you panic? Run out of energy? Pay special attention to errors that surprised you – did you somehow make a silly mistake? 
 If you missed, say, three or more questions on a particular passage, you might consider redoing the entire passage (and its questions) 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, see the next 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:

Videos:  How to approach RC  |  Another RC basics video  |  Dealing with RC culture and literature passages with Charles  |  RC humanities passages with Coach Beard  |  How to identify different points of view on RC passages  
  All GMAT Ninja RC resources  
  More RC explanations than anybody should ever read  
  Beginner’s guide to RC again  
  A whole lot of YouTube videos on many topics , or  an RC-specific video course

Your goal in Week 3 is to fight for 100% consistency in how you read and comprehend CR passages -- and that’s much harder than it sounds. Keep practicing, and stay focused on HOW you approach every question.

If you want some extra practice with “evaluate the argument” questions this week, great. But if not, feel free to skip those tasks -- your approach to those questions shouldn’t be terribly different from strengthen, weaken, and assumption questions.

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. (We’ll say more below about how to analyze your results.)

Week 3 CR homework 
 
1. (Optional) If you want extra reps with “evaluate the argument” questions, do a set of 5-10 from the LSAT or older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition  here , or from the LSAT  here .
2. Do one full LSAT CR set
3. Do the 1st set of 25 questions from a recent edition of the  GMAT Verbal Review . These will still feel easier than the LSAT. (The CR question numbers will vary slightly, depending on which edition you’re using.)
4. (Optional) One additional LSAT CR set

What to do AFTER completing a CR 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, that’s a sign that your overall CR process isn’t nearly as consistent as it needs to be, and fixing your process needs to be your #1 area of focus. See below for some videos that might help. 
 If you miss a question a second time, don’t overreact: obsessively studying individual questions can drain a TON of your study time – and it really isn’t very valuable on CR. So don’t spend hours memorizing the steps for individual questions. 
 For more on how to interpret your CR results, see the next post in this thread.

Need help with CR?

If you struggled with your CR homework sets this week, here are some resources that might help:

Beginners’ guide to CR  
  YouTube video on how to approach CR  
  All GMAT Ninja CR resources  
  More full CR explanations than anybody should ever read  
  A whole lot more YouTube videos , or  a CR-specific video course

Enjoy it while it lasts: this is our final week of limited, DS-focused DI practice. We’ll stick with quant-based DS this week, aligned (roughly) with the topics you’ve seen in the quant section of the study plan so far.

We’ll also warm you up with a video on how to approach the DI section in general, before emphasizing the other four DI question types in the coming weeks.

Again: enjoy the stripped-down DI homework for one more week, and focus on getting your process 100% flawless on DS.

Week 3 Data Insights homework 
 
1. Watch  this video on how to approach the GMAT Data Insights section  (~15 mins)
2. Do the first 20 Data Sufficiency questions from your edition of the GMAT Data Insights Review (skinny little book –  this thing ).
3. Do 25 word problems DS questions.  Sub-555 level  |  Mixed difficulty 
4. (Optional) Do 25 arithmetic DS questions.  Sub-555 level  |  Mixed difficulty 
5. (Optional) Do 25 algebra DS questions.  Sub-555 level  |  Mixed difficulty

What to do AFTER completing a Data Insights homework set

1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch. Try 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 priority. 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 Data Insights?

If you make careless errors or struggle on this week’s content, these resources might help:

1. If you’re making careless errors or struggling with the DS format in general, check out  this LIVE video on how to avoid screwing yourself on DS , or  this prerecorded video on how to approach GMAT DS 
2.  GMAT Club Math Book 
3. Heroic quant threads from  Bunuel  that all include DS questions:  Ultimate GMAT Quant Megathread  |  Signature Question Collection  |  All You Need for Quant

GMATNinja · Answer

How to Interpret Your Week 3 Homework Results 
 Please read this section each week if you’re serious about optimizing your study time.  Our goal is to help you understand how good or bad your results are, so that you can (A) choose your homework wisely, and (B) avoid wasting time reviewing questions that don’t really matter.

Obviously, some of this advice will be similar from week to week. But plenty of things will change, too. So if you’re panicking about a homework result – or if you’re tempted to spend a half-billion hours reviewing individual questions – please take a deep breath, and read through this post first.

Also, if you’re worried about something that isn’t addressed here, please post your questions/worries/doubts either here or in the  Week 1 thread . I guarantee that other students are suffering in the same ways as you are.

Most of you probably didn't do a practice test this week, and that's great. Generally speaking, your time is best spent elsewhere right now.

Benchmarks for the non-official quant test :

Quant section score : I don’t care, and you shouldn’t either. Non-official tests aren’t necessarily very accurate. Instead, focus on the next two metrics... 
  Careless error rate : < 3%. If you made one silly error, that’s OK. More than that? Grrrrrr... 
  Questions that took you 3+ minutes : < 3%. Didn’t you hear our guy Mike telling you to  “bail when you flail” ?

Benchmarks for Your Week 3 Quant Results 
The first part is the same as in previous weeks:

Count the errors that make you go "whoa, how the 🤬 did I miss THAT one?!?" No really:  count them, for EVERY quant set you completed . Then divide that by the total number of questions to get your careless error rate.

If your long-term goal is to score in the 80s, here are the metrics I’d like you to hit in Week 3:

Careless error rate : < 3%. Hey, we’re almost 1⁄4 of the way through the plan. The careless errors need to be gone, or almost gone. 
  OG & Quant Guide sets (#4-5 on the list) : 85-90% correct is excellent, 80% is good. These are starting to get just a little bit harder, right? Just remember that WHAT you miss is more important on the GMAT than how many you missed. Careless errors are apocalyptic, but if you missed OG questions on topics that you haven't studied, that's totally cool -- you'll have time to learn those things. 
  Randomized batches of forum questions (#6-8 on the list) : 85-90% correct is good on the sub-555 questions, but if you did mixed difficulty sets, take the results with a grain of salt. If you saw nasty, strange questions, 50-60% might be pretty good. 
  Speed : On the OG and topic-based sets, you're in good shape if you’re reasonably close to 2 minutes per question. If you're slower than, say, 2:30 per question on average, it might be a sign that your basic skills are rusty, or that you're not choosing efficient paths forward -- and you'll be able to improve those things over time.

What Should You Do About Your Quant Weaknesses in Week 3? 
Our usual reminder: on an adaptive test, job #1 is to be spectacularly accurate on the questions that you’re capable of getting right. If you’re taking care of business on the easier ones, you’ll get pounded by harder questions – and that’s wonderful. You’ll miss many of those hard questions, and that’s great, too.

In other words: don’t obsess over the hard stuff. It isn’t worth much of your precious time.

Here’s some guidance on what to do once you’ve analyzed your results:

If your careless error rate is too high : that’s bad. Do whatever you need to do to fix this. Do it now. Pause the study plan if you need to. Just fix the careless errors. 
  If you struggled on the OG or Quant Guide sets : don’t panic. Again: ask yourself WHY you struggled. If you’re at, say, 70-75% accuracy, that’s not ideal. But context matters: if nearly all of those errors are on topics that you’ve never really studied, you’re in great shape, since you have plenty of time to study those over the next 10 weeks. 
  If you struggled on the exponents or roots sets : concentrate on putting your errors into context, and look for broad patterns. If you missed several questions of the same type, then it’s probably worth trying to address those weaknesses. But if you missed hard or oddball questions, please don’t waste your time on them. 
  If you got CRUSHED by ALL of the quant homework : if you’re nowhere close to the benchmarks on quant – and if your long-term goal is a score in the 80s – then maybe you need to back away from the study plan, and invest some time in rebuilding your basic quant skills. If that’s the case for you, tag us in the thread, give us as much detail as you can about your situation, and we’ll try to help. 
  How much time should you spend reviewing individual quant questions?  Not much, please! Because it can take SOOOOOOO much time to review a question, it should be your absolute last resort. That’s why we want you to  redo questions first  – sometimes, you’ll see your mistake right away, and that’s the best way to learn. If you miss a question a second time, then maybe it’s a sign of an underlying issue. 
  No, really: resist the temptation to obsess over individual questions . Instead, look for patterns in your errors – an error on one question might be a fluke (or a weird, hard, or badly written question), but if you miss several related questions, you have an opportunity to get a good ROI on your study time by addressing a general weakness via a video or articles or books.

Our usual disclaimer: LSAT sets are HARD. If you’re not in pain, you’re probably not doing it right.

Improving on RC and CR is usually a slow, agonizing process. Don’t get discouraged – keep fighting to read a little bit more sharply, every time you do a set. Be proud when your results tick upwards a little bit, and don’t beat yourself up when you have a bad set.

Slow, steady progress is gorgeous. Even when it really hurts.

Benchmarks for Your Week 3 RC & CR Results 
 
  Accuracy on LSAT CR & RC sets : if your goal is the 90th percentile or above on verbal, we eventually want to see 80% accuracy on LSAT CR and RC. That’s your long-run goal, though – and it’s still OK if you’re not quite there. If you’re happy with something like an 80V, you’re probably OK if you’re answering 70% of LSAT questions correctly. 
  Efficiency on LSAT CR & RC sets : in the long run, you’ll need to complete full LSAT sets in under 60 minutes to have a shot at finishing the GMAT verbal section on time. If you’re in the 60-70 minute range right now, that’s still OK – you have time to become more efficient and energetic in your approach. If you’re slower than that, we might be worried. More on that below. 
  Consistency on LSAT CR & RC sets : your errors and times should fall within a fairly narrow range across ALL of your LSAT sets. LSAT sets (~25 Qs each) do not vary much in difficulty, so if your errors or times fluctuate wildly, that’s a sign that you’re doing very different things at different times, and you might need to think about how to standardize your process and your energy so that you do the SAME THING, every single time. It’s totally normal to struggle more on some passages than others, though. 
  GMAT OG CR set : if you’re shooting for a 90th percentile verbal score, we’d like to see 85-90% accuracy on this set, in no more than 2 minutes per question; if your goals are more modest, 75-80% might be fine. These aren’t too hard yet, but the sets will get tougher in the coming weeks, so please don’t be alarmed if your results look somewhat flat over time.

What Should You Do About Your CR & RC Weaknesses in Week 3? 
 
  Don’t panic . CR and RC progress takes time. Zoom out a bit: are you seeing ANY improvement in your average accuracy and times from Week 1 until now? If you’ve reduced your LSAT CR and RC errors by 5-10%, that’s legitimately a great achievement, and you’re very much on track. 
  Look for “careless” errors . As with everything on the GMAT, pay close attention to anything that seems to be an “unforced error.” Did you miss a bunch of questions that felt easy to you? If so, you might want to revisit the techniques in the videos and articles in the assignment lists. 
  If your results are significantly better on RC than on CR : that’s not a bad thing! There’s no reason why you can’t bring your CR results to the level of your RC, but something is funky in your approach to CR. You might want to invest time in some extra CR sets or videos – we’ll provide recommendations each week. 
  If you’re better at CR than RC : again, this isn’t a bad thing! You’re 100% capable of bringing your RC up to the level of your CR. If your RC is weaker than your CR, you might be obsessing over details when you read RC (and missing the “big picture”), or you might struggle to stay focused through a long passage. Maybe you’ll want to err on the side of getting a bit of extra practice on RC in the coming weeks, and we’ll keep feeding you videos that might help, too 
  If you’re slow ( > 60 mins per LSAT set) : I wish that I could tell you exactly what’s happening, but there are a ton of different reasons why your times might be high. At this stage, maybe you’re still learning how to integrate new approaches into your process – if that’s the case, your times will improve. Maybe you’re not doing each set with test-like intensity. Maybe you need more coffee or more sleep. Maybe you’d be sharper at a different time of day. Maybe there’s inefficiency in your process – and if that’s the case, you’re probably still struggling to fully incorporate the techniques that you’ll see in the videos. It’s also possible that you’re a slow reader, and that’s a hard thing to fix. I wish I could tell you which of these things is happening – but you’ll have to figure that part out for yourself, unfortunately.  
  If you’re getting impatient with your results : hey, it’s Week 3. If you’re above 80% on your LSAT sets, you’re doing GREAT. If you’re in the 60-80% range, you might also be in great shape, depending on your goals. If you’re unhappy with your current results: are you at least seeing some improvement? If so, you’re on track – keep at it! 
  If you’re getting CRUSHED on CR & RC : my heart hurts for you, because that’s a terrible feeling. If your goal is something like a 80V, 60% on your LSAT sets might not be too bad at this stage – even if you feel terrible as you suffer through those sets. But if you have ambitious goals (84V+) and you’re truly struggling to understand the passages, it’s possible that you need to spend some time working on your fundamental reading skills before returning to GMAT-specific verbal prep.  This article  and  this one  will give you some ideas for how to improve your reading precision.   
  
Once again, we kept the DI homework lean, and focused exclusively on Data Sufficiency, with an emphasis on DS questions that align with certain quant topics.

So for now, this will sound very much like the guidance we offered for the quant section. Don’t worry: all of this will evolve once we get to the other four DI question types (GI, TPA, TA, MSR, MDMA, CIA, GMAC, FIFA, MI-5, EIEIO, etc.).

Benchmarks for Your Week 3 Data Insights Results 
Before you do anything else:

Count the errors that make you go "whoa, how the 🤬 did I miss THAT one?!?" No really:  count them, for EVERY Data Sufficiency set you completed . Then divide that by the total number of questions to get your careless error rate.

If your long-term goal is to score in the 80s, here are the metrics I’d like you to hit in Week 3:

Careless error rate : < 5%. If you make careless errors on 5% of questions now, you’ll make far more under the pressure of the actual exam – maybe three times as many. And that will destroy your score. So please get this careless error rate down to 1-2% (or less!) as soon as you can. 
  OG & Data Insights Guide sets (#2 on the list) : 85-90% correct is excellent, 80% is probably good. Just remember that WHAT you miss is more important on the GMAT than how many you missed: careless errors are apocalyptic. If you missed OG questions on topics that you haven't studied, that's totally cool -- you'll have time to learn those things. 
  Randomized batches of forum questions (#3-5 on the list) : 85-90% correct is good on the sub-555 questions, but if you did mixed difficulty sets, you’ll have to take the results with a grain of salt. If you happened to see nasty, strange questions, 50-60% might be pretty good. Don’t overreact if the percentage wasn’t great, though. 
  Speed : On the OG and topic-based sets, you're in good shape if you’re reasonably close to 2 minutes per question. If you're slower than, say, 2:30 per question on average, it might be a sign that your basic skills are rusty, or that you're not choosing efficient paths forward -- and you'll be able to improve those things over time.

What Should You Do About Your Data Insights Weaknesses in Week 3? 
Our usual reminder: on an adaptive test, job #1 is to be spectacularly accurate on the questions that you’re capable of getting right. If you’re taking care of business on the easier ones, you’ll get pounded by harder questions – and you’ll miss plenty of them. Embrace the pain.

In other words: don’t obsess over the hard stuff. It isn’t worth much of your precious time.

Here’s what to do once you’ve analyzed your results:

If your careless error rate is too high : address this problem ASAP. Nothing else matters on Data Sufficiency questions until you do. Do whatever you need to do to fix this. Do it now. Check out the resource list in the study plan for help.  
  If you struggled with the overall process for answering a Data Sufficiency question : check out  this LIVE video on the DS process  or  this (not-so-live) DS video . 
  If you struggled on specific topics : (algebra, arithmetic, word problems, etc.),  don’t panic . It’s far too easy to overreact to a few errors, and study these problems until your cortex bleeds. Instead, try to put your struggles in context: did you miss particularly hard or strange versions of these questions? Were your errors careless? If so, you probably don’t need to do much studying, exactly. But if you missed basic questions because your foundations are shaky, then you might need to do some remedial studying, and it might even make sense to “pause” the study plan to do so – but don’t assume that you need to do this unless the data is very, very clear about your weaknesses. 
  If you struggled on the OG or Data Insights Guide sets : don’t panic. Again: ask yourself WHY you struggled. If you’re at, say, 70-80% accuracy, that’s not ideal right now. But context matters: if mosts of those errors are on topics you’ve never really studied, you’re in great shape, since you have plenty of time to learn those in the next 11 weeks. 
  If you got CRUSHED by ALL of the homework : if you’re nowhere close to the benchmarks on Data Sufficiency – and if your long-term goal is a score in the 80s – then maybe you need to back away from the study plan, and invest some time in rebuilding your basic quant skills. If that’s the case for you, tag us in the thread, give us as much detail as you can about your situation, and we’ll try to help. 
  How much time should you spend reviewing individual Data Sufficiency questions?  Not much, please! Because it can take SOOOOOOO much time to review a question, it should be your absolute last resort. That’s why we want you to  redo questions first  – sometimes, you’ll see your mistake right away, and that’s the best way to learn. If you miss a question a second time, then maybe it’s a sign of an underlying issue. 
  No, really: resist the temptation to obsess over individual questions . Instead, look for patterns in your errors – an error on one question might be a fluke (or a weird, hard, or badly written question), but if you miss several related questions, you have an opportunity to get a good ROI on your study time by addressing a general weakness via a video or articles or books.

Don’t worry: this is all going to look different once we introduce Graphical Interpretation next week, and additional DI question types in the following weeks.

Eat your Wheaties, friends – the fun is coming.

bb · Answer

Thank you Charles! 
The email for the Week 3 has been updated and should be going out to everyone subscribed.

Rikhraj1 · Answer

GMATNinja   bb   Bunuel  pls help me in interpreting my week1 CR results, i did 25 Lsat of sub-505 got 96%, then did 25 Lsat of 505-555 got 84% and then did 20 old OG of 555-605 got 45%. In old OG of 555-605 i was not able the able to understand them. So how should i improve ?

purvagupta · Answer

these posts are incredibly helpful!!! i sincerely appreciate all of the effort & thought put into writing them

Duttonide · Answer

I am having trouble finding questions in the OG GMAT Official Guide, I could only get three exponents problem one for easy, medium and hard each, am I missing something? 
Where to get all the questions, when you say #51 to #75, you mean all of them irrespective of topics is it?

yc168 · Answer

4.   GMAT Official Guide   Problem Solving #51-75 
 5. GMAT Quant Guide (skinny little book) Problem Solving #26-50 
 The above two items refer to sets of 25 sequential questions in the Main OG and Quant Guide. They are not topic-specific.

6. Do 20 exponents PS questions.    Sub-555 level   |   Mixed difficulty  
 7. Do 20 roots PS questions.    Sub-555 level   |   Mixed difficulty   
 The above two are topic-specific sets. You can access these questions by clicking on the links (highlighted in yellow). It will then take you to a selection of questions pertaining to the exponents/roots topic respectively.

nidhi1904 · Answer

Hi, I have a question here, why are we continuing the Data Sufficiency topic only in Data Insights, I wanted to understand how is the roadmap set for DI, I mean after how many weeks are we going to pickup another new type of qn set?

yc168 · Answer

Hi  nidhi1904 ,

You can go to the Week 1 study plan  here .

On the top of page under   Study Plan Schedule , you  will see links to each week's content, where you'll be able to see how other DI question types are spread over the future weeks.

Basically, the plan will get into GI, TA, TPA and MSR in Week 4, 5, 6, and 7, respectively.

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