MGMAT - How important/necessary are the Advanced Topics?

Its a mixed review, however you should go over them once your comfortable with the content and the OG problems of part 1

Thanks all. Dayne, what do you mean by it's a "mixed review"?

this guy scored 750 and he advocated not putting much attention in the advanced sections of the MGMT
550-to-690-to-750-my-key-points-for-gmat-success-91926.html

I've read other sites where people did go over the advance section and had success.

It depends on your comfort level of the material of part 1, if you come to a point where your breezing through the part 1, go ahead and take a look at part 2.

I made a thread asking the same thing: the-advanced-sections-in-the-manhattan-math-books-94889.html

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!

I have used Kaplan books from a while ago that did not have probability/combinations/permutations/statistics, etc and I did Ok as well. I got one probability question and bombed it on the GMAT- spent 4 minutes solving and did not find the answer. It was a fairly simple one I later realized.

I have to say, I wish i answered it but I guess I'll settle with Q49

My opinion would be that if you are short on time, absolutely put all the time into Arithmetic - half the questions rely on it.
If you have time, harder subjects are worth it as well since they often rely on easier concepts to solve, thus you are practicing on several levels, but that's me. I tried to do everything I could to prepare.

Yes, I do agree with BB. Gmat preparation should be smart. No point of practicing topics which are out of scope.

Improve your weakness and nourish your strengths. That's all required.

Important topics such as percentage, ratios, number properties, inequalities are must.
But do spend 1 day on probablity etc topics.

Hi all

So you're recommendations are definitely to nail the number properties section and be absolutely comfortable with it over and above everything else for Quant.?

As in, to spend the most time with number properties/arithmetic guide even at the expense of prep. time in other areas?

thanks

If you have time, go through Advanced section of all books - sometimes they discuss shortcuts.
Do NP for sure, as others said.
Do Advanced from Book #3 (Equations/VICs) - I found it very helpful
You can skip Book #2 and #5 if you don't have time