GMAT Preparation - Halfway Through

Hi maysara,

The level at which many book-centric learners get stuck varies from person-to-person, but it's often in the 500s or low-600s. This doesn't necessarily mean that you'll get stuck, nor does it mean that you necessarily have to take a GMAT Course to hit your score goal. However, until you take a realistic, FULL LENGTH CAT (with the Essay and IR sections), we really have no idea what YOUR level is. Unfortunately, the pencil-and-paper Diagnostic in the OG is not a practical way to measure your readiness to take the Official GMAT (there are too many ways in which it doesn't 'match up' to the experience that you'll face on Test Day).

With a Test Date at the end of January, you have about 1.5 months of study time remaining. That may or may not be enough time though, so I highly recommend that you take a FULL CAT sometime soon (perhaps this weekend). Once you have that score result, you should post back here and we discuss how best to proceed.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

You should review, do OG problems, and study new topics more or less simultaneously. Humans learn more effectively when we study multiple topics in a day or in a study session ('interleaving'), rather than studying one topic to completion, then moving on ('blocking'). Check this out for more details: https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -learning/

Hi ccooley,

Thank you very much for your reply.

The article is really interesting, first time to hear about that. I will try this method for the next few weeks and see the result.

Thanks again.