Hi All,
I am starting my GMAT journey and could use some advice regarding my study strategy. I am aiming for 700+ and planning to apply to M7 schools a year or so from now. I am hoping to take the exam and achieve this score by mid September. I don't have an exam scheduled yet, planning to schedule it once I feel ready.
I spent some time studying the concepts using
Magoosh and took my first CAT on the official GMAT website today. I scored 530, so I clearly need a lot of work. I am planning to take my second exam in 2 weeks, between now and then, I will be reviewing the questions I got wrong, and spending the rest of the time to work on concepts/areas that are my weakest. I will be taking a practice exam every 2 weeks going forward as well and review in between. My quant score was 42 and 21 in verbal. 38% of questions I got wrong on quant were DS questions, and the rest were PS questions. I will be diving into the specific topics for quant questions I got wrong, and focusing my review on those. As for verbal, 59% of the questions I got wrong were RC questions, 18% SC, and 23% CR. I got most of the RC questions wrong, and I believe getting many questions wrong in a row impacted my verbal score.
About me: I have an undergraduate degree in business administration, major in accounting. I work in public accounting at a big 4 firm, have the CPA license, and planning to sit for the CFA Level II exam in Dec 2020, so I have taken many exams already but the GMAT is a completely different beast. English is my second language, but my English is pretty good. I have taken the taken the GMAT two years ago, so I am familiar with the exam structure. However, I spent less than a month studying for it and didn't do any practice exams or OG questions, so I did really bad.
I am planning to spend 2-3 hours a day during the week and 6-8 hours a day on the weekend studying. Resources I am using are
Magoosh, gmatclub, and OG questions. My plan to improve my weakest areas is by reviewing the main concepts, and then spending the rest of the time working on problems, and maintaining an
error log. I am wiling to do whatever it takes to achieve my desired score. If you have any advice, things I should incorporate into my study plan, additional resources I should look into, or any modifications to my current plan, please let me know. Thanks in advance.