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

PLEASE WE NEED AN UPDATED GMAT FOCUS STUDY PLAN

Yes that is true, you can also tailor one for yourself as long as you understand the mechanics of planning and the syllabus and your target test date / score. You can swap sentence correction with DI and bring DI in once you feel a little comfortable with Algebra, Arithmetic and Verbal Reasoning say week 5 onwards. I would not alter the overall timeline a whole lot assuming you need a significant score improvement. If your baseline score is high enough then you can reduce the overall 13 weeks to something lower that suits you (or higher).

End of the day this is a plan and actual execution to the plan with discipline is key for a score improvement.

Thanks,

We're working on it! There's no specific timetable for posting it yet, but it's coming. 
Thank you for this, playthegame! You're spot-on: while we work on getting a new version posted, it would work fine to skip geometry, and replace SC with DI. That will get you close enough for now.  

Hey Team,

Can we please get a plan for FOCUS edition as well? It’d be a major help!

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­It's coming soon! No particular launch date yet, but it's on the way. 

 

Hi,

I've been using this study plan for the FOCUS, just completed Week 1 and moving into Week 2. Still very much applicable to the FOCUS edition. Some eye opening moments for me include:

1. Calculating Silly Error Rate on my quant sets, truly shocking and still aiming to get it down to <5% - it is ridiculously high. This study plan and the tracker provided have made it the FOCUS for me, something which I THOUGHT I was focusing on, but I really wasnt.
2. Doing more sets of Verbal RC/CR - I was previously using the OG testbank and have decided to save my remaining questions there. The sets of 15, 20+ (for LSAT) are powerful in increasing MENTAL STAMINA. It is easy to do a set of 5-10 questions on the testbank and say 'Happy Days', I'm all set. But when exposed to 20+ questions, this is when the cracks to your process get EXPOSED - what will you do then? Will you guess and move on, or lose precious time.
3. GMAT Ninja's perspective on working through incorrect answers is quite useful - i've cut down on time spent reviewing and instead, I know I can do the questions - it is my process which is inconsistent

The only gap is how data insights (MSR, TPA, Graphs / Tables are included). I'd suggest here this can be supplemented by GMAT Ninja's DI series on Youtube.

Hope this helps! Better to get started and dive in (vs waiting around).

Best of luck!

Take the geometry out and sentence correction out. Swap sentence correction with Data Insights week 4 or week 5 into your plan when you have recapped arithmetic and algebra plus some basics on logical reasoning, verbal.

Good luck.

HI Charles. Thanks for all your resources and inspiration words. I had a question, for the new Focus edition, what changes would you suggest me to make to the 13 week plan ?
I know we may not have a lot on DI but I am planning Jan 1st week exam date and wanted to follow the 13 week plan cause it suits me. I have always been a self study man and wanna keep the same. ­

Quick question- in Week 1 of the Study Plan, when you say we should practice question #1-25 of Data Sufficiency or Problem Solving in the quant homework, do you want us to mix the difficulty? The first 25 questions in my OG 2024-2025 are all easy. Thanks!

Apologies for my slow response!

In case it helps somebody else out there: yes, the idea is that we WANT you to start with the easier questions, which generally appear towards the beginning of each section of the official guides, and then you can slowly move ahead to harder sets of questions. If anything in the first 25 questions of the OG is a challenge for you, that's a sign that you probably need to work on some key foundational skills; if you make careless errors, that's a sign of the apocalypse, as emphasized throughout the study plan.

Obviously, if you NEVER miss any of the easy ones, that's great. In that case, maybe you don't need to practice the easiest questions much at all. But let the data guide you -- if you're making mistakes on easy sets, pay close attention to why.

I hope that helps a bit!

The new plan is really promising! I was just here a few days ago, wishing for a dedicated GMAT Focus version — and ouila, here it is! Thank you so much for the work that went into this.

One quick note: the hyperlinks seem to be missing from the Quant section of week 1, under homework. Will those be restored?

Hi, I see that many URLs in the week 1 study plan have not been attached. Any reason for this?

Thanks!

That's a technical issue -- all of my links have been eaten by the website, apparently. Once upon a time, all of those links were correct.

But guess what? I'm not going to fix them! Why not? This version of the study plan is obsolete. You want this one instead: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-ninja-1 ... 37774.html

Enjoy!

hello - there are several broken links in the week 1 quant assessment, links 6-9 are broken and do not appear.

hello - there are several broken links in the week 1 quant assessment, links 6-9 are broken and do not appear.