GMAT Ninja 13-Week Study Plan Week 1 [GMAT Classic]

I was lucky enough to find a copy on Amazon Warehouse deals for little more than 5€ (80% discount). There are a lot of volumes released by the LSAC with 10 tests, you might want to check if you can find a nice deal on the used ones. E.g. in the italian store this one is on sale right now for 7,81€.

Can i use the 12 free tests of Khan Academy/Lawhub? or should i find and use the linked next 10 lsat preptests?

The link to set of 10 general systems of linear equations of Week 1 is not working could anyone help me ?

how would you adapt this plan to gmat focus? when will you study DI and how?

Yup, feel free to use LSATs from whatever source you'd like. Just make sure that they're actual, official LSAT tests, and not something written by test-prep companies.

One small thing to keep in mind: some of the newer LSAT tests (starting at around PrepTest 50 or so) include a reading comprehension question type called "comparative reading", which requires you to analyze two separate passages in tandem. I'd argue that the skills required are still broadly the same as for GMAT RC, but if you'd prefer to avoid the comparative format, you'll be happier with older LSATs from the books provided in the links. But that's a very minor thing.

Sorry for the wait on this! I've updated the link in the original plan -- it's funny, the URL is almost entirely the same, but they changed one small thing. It should be working now, but if it doesn't, check out this post for a workaround.

Check out this post for the short answer to that question. Data Insights fits nicely in SC's role in the original plan -- there's a limited supply of official DI questions available, and I think it's best to start on DI later in your studies, after you've stabilized your performance in other areas of the exam.

The only other thing I'd add is that we now have Data Insights videos available here and here, with more likely on their way as we learn more about students' struggles on DI.

I hope that helps!

Are there any more adjustments needed for the plan?
Should I lower the sets?
also, how do I approach PS/DS questions? DS moved to DI chapter.

There aren't huge content differences between the two versions of the exam, so as long as you're ignoring geometry and replacing SC with DI practice, you should be fine.

I'd stick to the approach to PS and DS shown in this video, even though DS has migrated to a different section. The core principles are still the same.

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

Hi, Thanks a ton for this. This is really helpful for me. Im trying to get back to the rhythm of studies after a long break, and the entire plan has given me some directions. Can you let me know if you have created any such similar plan for GMAT Focus, or is this sufficient for the same?

This should generally suffice. The approaches, questions, and topics (besides Geometry and SC) have all remained the same.

I loved the study plan, how do I tweak it for the focus edition? And where can I find data insights questions on GMAT Club?

Is there anything coming out for the focus edition?

Hi Charles!

Wonderful study plan - having a lot of fun doing this. Just a question - is it critical to meet the targets every week for the score? Can i spend, say 10 days on every week? Studying during the weekdays is extremely difficult for me, so I'm finding it difficult to squeeze everything in a week. Was only able to do the quant portion in the week's timeline.

Hi GMATNinja, thank you for the weekly plans Charles, they look great. I am sitting at 555-565 on the focus edition right now with a goal of hitting 665 - 685, ambitious I know.

I am wondering is there a weekly plan or some suggestions that you would be able to provide on how to incorporate Data Insights into this weekly plan, thank you.

My current score breakdown on the focus edition is below:

Quant (Baseline is 80, goal is 84-86)

Verbal (Baseline is 80, goal is 86-88)

Data Insights (Baseline is 74, goal is 81-83)


Thank you and I appreciate your suggestions and guidance.

Thank you for the kinds words about the study plan!

That's a good question about trying to squeeze everything into a calendar week. In a perfect world, it would be great to do so, just because you'll be done with the exam that much sooner. But if work and other commitments make that impossible, you'll have to adjust -- and it DEFINITELY isn't worth compromising your sleep or your health to try to squeeze more hours of studying in each week. It's critically important to maintain the quality of your practice on the GMAT, and if you start "forcing things" when you don't really have the time or bandwidth to study effectively, that can do more harm than good.

So if you need 10 days to do each "week" of the study plan with full energy and attention, I think that's OK. I would just be very careful to balance quant and verbal throughout those 10-day periods, so that you're not binging on one, and then binging on the other. See if you can get regular exposure to both sections (and DI, once that gets added into the plan later on), so that you stay as fresh as you can on everything.

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

We'll make some GMAT Focus-inspired adaptations to this plan at some point in the next few months, hopefully. For now, I would recommend making two small adjustments if you're using the current version of the study plan:

• Skip anything related to geometry or SC.
• Replace the SC assignments with Data Insights practice.

For Data Insights questions, the 2023-24 editions of the GMAT Official Guide and Data Insights Guide are the best things out there. GMAC has also released this online question pack for Data Insights -- I think it's a little bit expensive for what it is, but if you need more questions, it might be worth it.

GMAT Club also has this delightful new section of the forum, dedicated exclusively to Data Insights. And if you want a bunch of Data Insights videos -- filmed live so that you can watch me do embarrassing things -- here they are.

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

Thank you!