GMAT Prepration

Hi


it is better to start with taking a CAT exam know starting point
4 month is pretty enough time so you can start with Best comprehensive material

1. Manhattan GMAT Quant Guides
2. Manhattan GMAT Verbal guides
or
Aristotle Verbal Guide
for CR critical reasoning bible is best book with 300+ pages of comprehensive Data

Start with quant, learn the concepts tested on GMAT
After learning, practice your learned section with timed practice
You can also take quizzes to meet the pace of GMAT

1 Month for learning concepts and 15 days of practice and same with the verbal
when completed all the concepts learning and handsome practice
Take full lenght CATs, know your estimated score

Analyze the result with Correct/incorrect questions, pacing analysis
trace your mistakes and learn from them, make an error log to know
your mistakes in the previously attempted questions

Best CATs

1. Official GMAC (50+50$)
2. Manhattan GMAT (49$)
3. GMAT Club Quant CATs (80$)
4. Veritas CATs (49$ but you can buy at 15-20$ During sale period)

Good Luck
Cheers

Hi rb25,

Can you go into a bit more detail about your work schedule now (and potentially in the future)? How do these rotational shifts impact your schedule? How many hours could you reasonably study each week (even if you had to adjust your study routine around your job)?

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

Hi,

My rotational shifts changes after every five days sometime its night shift, sometime morning shift, sometime evening shift & because of this my schedule of studying gets misbalanced. So suggest if I should resign from my job or not.


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A little bit of a generalization, but it's usually a bad idea to resign just to prepare for the GMAT. It's a completely different matter if you don't like your current job or if there's something else (maybe a better job) that you could do instead.

Hi rb25 ,

Please do not quit your job for GMAT. GMAT as an exam is specifically designed for working people. You can easily ace your GMAT while working. You should dedicate around 3 months to achieve your dream score. You should start by giving GMATPREP to learn more about your performance. You can then know your weaknesses and work on them. If you are willing to study dedicatedly for 3 months, you are sure to achieve your goal. I believe you may benefit from taking a GMATPREP course. If you are willing, there are some great GMAT prep companies that can help you with your preparation.

In order to make an informed decision I would highly encourage you to go to their websites and try on their free trial and decide for yourself which one do you like better. You try out free access to EmpowerGMAT, Magoosh and Optimus Prep as they have great reviews on GMATCLUB.

Also for verbal, I would highly encourage you to consider e-gmat verbal online or the e-gmat verbal live course. They are both amazing courses especially designed for non-natives. They offer almost 25% of their courses for free so you can try out their free trial to decide which one you want to go for. Plus the e-gmat Scholaranium which is included in both the courses is one of the best verbal practice tools in the market. You can easily track your progress in that you can identify your strengths and analyze and improve on your weak areas.

You can also try out the MGMAT guides they are phenomenal and cover the entire syllabus really well. I must add that if you are particularly looking to discover and improve on your weak areas in quant; a subscription to GMATCLUB tests is the best way to do that. They are indeed phenomenal and will not only pinpoint your weak areas but also help you improve on them.

Further taking multiple mocks might help. Apart from the GMATPREP, Manhattan GMAT tests and Veritas Prep Tests in my experience have good verbal and Quant section and will certainly help you point out and improve your weak areas.

Further another advantage of taking many mocks is to build up your stamina. Apart from the GMATPREP tests, taking practise tests of any major GMATPREP company ought to do that.

I would also encourage you practice all the questions twice from he latest version of OG and the verbal review. Here is a link that will help you with your decision.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/best-gmat-ve ... 68383.html

Lastly, you can check out a very interesting article by Mike McGarry from Magoosh detailing a 3 month study plan

https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/3-month-g ... -students/. You will find it very helpful as it gives out a study plan as per your needs.

Hope this helps. All the best.

Hi rb25,

While having a work schedule that varies from week-to-week could be inconvenient (for a variety of reasons), I'm going to assume that you would still have time for all of the other aspects of your life - including studying. Thus, I do NOT think that you should quit your job.

1) Do you total work hours vary substantially each week or are they fairly predictable (for example, 40-50 hours/week)?
2) How do these rotational shifts impact your schedule? How many hours could you reasonably study each week (even if you had to adjust your study routine around your job)?

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