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Hi everyone,
I’m preparing for the GMAT and feeling very lost and unstructured in my prep. I’ve been studying for quite some time, but I still feel underconfident and unsure of what exactly is going wrong.
A bit of background: I come from a finance/economics background and only studied math until around 10th grade. Quant has never come naturally to me, even in school, whereas verbal is generally a stronger area for me. Because of that, I sometimes feel like I’m trying hard but still struggling with the fundamentals of how to approach GMAT Quant.
However, the issue is not just quant, but i think the entire prep lacks structure.
Current situation:
Any advice would be really appreciated.
It would also be very helpful if someone could share if working with a mentor/tutor helped anyone in a similar situation and if yes, please do recommend platforms which offer GMAT guidance on aforementioned issues.
Thank You
Mihika
I’m preparing for the GMAT and feeling very lost and unstructured in my prep. I’ve been studying for quite some time, but I still feel underconfident and unsure of what exactly is going wrong.
A bit of background: I come from a finance/economics background and only studied math until around 10th grade. Quant has never come naturally to me, even in school, whereas verbal is generally a stronger area for me. Because of that, I sometimes feel like I’m trying hard but still struggling with the fundamentals of how to approach GMAT Quant.
However, the issue is not just quant, but i think the entire prep lacks structure.
Current situation:
- I struggle with knowing what to study, how to study, and in what order.
- Sometimes I understand concepts, but I still get questions wrong because I don’t know how to approach them.
- I also make execution mistakes (math mistakes, setup mistakes, poor approach) and often don’t know how to diagnose why I got something wrong. I also do not know how to think through questions.
- I feel like I lack a system for review and improvement.
- How to identify what is actually going wrong in my prep
- How to structure GMAT preparation effectively
- How to improve question approach/strategy rather than just doing more questions
- How to review mistakes properly and improve accuracy
Any advice would be really appreciated.
It would also be very helpful if someone could share if working with a mentor/tutor helped anyone in a similar situation and if yes, please do recommend platforms which offer GMAT guidance on aforementioned issues.
Thank You
Mihika
25 May 2026, 10:28
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So this is actually a really common place to get stuck, and I remember being in almost exactly this spot before things clicked for me. Feeling busy with prep but not improving is its own specific problem — it's not about working harder, it's about working on the right things.
The single biggest unlock for me was building an error log. Not just "I got this wrong," but a proper categorization: was it a concept gap, a reading error, a wrong approach, or just carelessness? Once I started doing that for every wrong question, patterns showed up within a week. I had no idea how often I was misreading Data Sufficiency stems until I could literally see it in a list.
For structure, I'd think about it in three phases: diagnosis, concept repair, and timed practice. Right now it sounds like you're doing all three at once without a clear sense of where you are on each. A useful starting point is the GMAT Club diagnostic quiz — it'll tell you which subsections are actually weak vs. just unfamiliar.
On approach: if you understand a concept but still get questions wrong, that's usually a strategy problem, not a knowledge problem. For Problem Solving, it often means you're not identifying what the question is actually testing. Take your last 20 wrong PS questions and ask yourself: could I have figured out the approach in the first 30 seconds? If not, that's the work.
Mentors/tutors can help a lot if the issue is specifically that you can't diagnose yourself. But try the error log approach for 2 weeks first. You might find you don't need the external guidance once you can see your own patterns clearly.
The single biggest unlock for me was building an error log. Not just "I got this wrong," but a proper categorization: was it a concept gap, a reading error, a wrong approach, or just carelessness? Once I started doing that for every wrong question, patterns showed up within a week. I had no idea how often I was misreading Data Sufficiency stems until I could literally see it in a list.
For structure, I'd think about it in three phases: diagnosis, concept repair, and timed practice. Right now it sounds like you're doing all three at once without a clear sense of where you are on each. A useful starting point is the GMAT Club diagnostic quiz — it'll tell you which subsections are actually weak vs. just unfamiliar.
On approach: if you understand a concept but still get questions wrong, that's usually a strategy problem, not a knowledge problem. For Problem Solving, it often means you're not identifying what the question is actually testing. Take your last 20 wrong PS questions and ask yourself: could I have figured out the approach in the first 30 seconds? If not, that's the work.
Mentors/tutors can help a lot if the issue is specifically that you can't diagnose yourself. But try the error log approach for 2 weeks first. You might find you don't need the external guidance once you can see your own patterns clearly.
