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04 Apr 2014, 10:35
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Hi Mike
I have my GMAT exam scheduled in about 50 days. I have bought the OG13 and signed as a premium member on Magoosh. This is my first attempt at the GMAT and I really want to hit 700. To get there I need to be exceptional and use my time well. This is where I hope you can help.
I work full time (circa 10hours a day, Monday to Friday) and I have a young family to attend to. This leaves me with not as much time as some others. I am not sleeping long enough and probably get around 5hours as I try to wake up at 4.30am to put 2hours in before work. Also, I put 2 hours in after work, 1 hour or so at lunch and then some on my 40mins train ride. Then going hard on a Saturday.
I don't want to burn out but also don't want to feel I am not doing enough. Please guide me in the most practical way you can. How can I get the most of my day and remain on top of the material needed to be ready in 50days?
How do I combine the OG and the Magoosh content effectively?
I would appreciate your response. Many thanks.
Kenneth
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I have my GMAT exam scheduled in about 50 days. I have bought the OG13 and signed as a premium member on Magoosh. This is my first attempt at the GMAT and I really want to hit 700. To get there I need to be exceptional and use my time well. This is where I hope you can help.
I work full time (circa 10hours a day, Monday to Friday) and I have a young family to attend to. This leaves me with not as much time as some others. I am not sleeping long enough and probably get around 5hours as I try to wake up at 4.30am to put 2hours in before work. Also, I put 2 hours in after work, 1 hour or so at lunch and then some on my 40mins train ride. Then going hard on a Saturday.
I don't want to burn out but also don't want to feel I am not doing enough. Please guide me in the most practical way you can. How can I get the most of my day and remain on top of the material needed to be ready in 50days?
How do I combine the OG and the Magoosh content effectively?
I would appreciate your response. Many thanks.
Kenneth
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04 Apr 2014, 13:54
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Dear Kenneth,
I'm happy to respond.
So, you have set up quite a challenge for yourself. These are adverse conditions for making major improvements. I don't know your baseline GMAT score, where you are stating now, but getting to 700+ is quite challenging even under the best of conditions. The first thing I would ask --- the 50 day deadline: is that necessary? If you had, say, 3 months, or 6 months, that would make this a much more do-able undertaking. Also, I will ask: why a 700? Are you targeting a specific program? Or, do you just in general want a elite score because it's a good thing but you don't have a specific plan yet? A 700 is a top 10% score --- how do you plan to beat out 90% of folks who take the GMAT? Is this realistic? I ask because I simply know nothing about you. If getting a 700 were unattainable, what other scores would serve your purposes well?
I would recommend taking practice test soon. Buy a cheap used GMAT prep book, maybe say the Kaplan book, just to have some rough idea of your baseline score. I have absolutely no idea of your relative strengths. Are you a native English speaker or is English a second language? Are you very talented at math or have you not done math in a while. All this information will influence the types of specific advice I could give. If you take a practice test soon, cold and with no preparation, then we will have an excellent idea of where you are starting and what this will take. Do not, DO NOT, use the GMAT Prep software for a throwaway practice test. That's incredibly high quality material, so you need to save that for the end of your preparation. That's why I recommend getting something cheap and low quality for your initial test.
One of the most challenging aspects of your current life is simply your lack of sleep. Human memory is encoded most in REM sleep, the largest period of REM sleep is typically in the last hour of an 8-hour stint of sleep. If you are sleeping around 5 hours/night, you are artificially lowering your IQ and hampering your ability to learn and remember. I don't know if there's anything you can do to address that. I understand that sleep is just a hard thing for parents of young children.
As you know, Magoosh offers study plans on the blog. You originally contacted me via comments on this blog:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/1-month-gm ... -schedule/
That blog would be an excellent basis, if you only have 50 days. I would recommend doubling up on whatever videos represent your greatest challenge area --- Math or Verbal. I will explain that in more detail when you tell me more about your relative strengths. If you could push the date of your GMAT back a little, so that you had three months, then I would recommend one of our three-month plans instead.
So, my friend, if you give me some more detailed information about yourself, and especially if you take a practice test, then I can give you considerably more detailed and specific advice.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
