no of questions per day

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Hi,
I am yet to start the preperation; couldnt start due to other commitments.

I am thinking of doing 30 questions (sovling and reviewing) per day, 10 Qs from each type, and cover other topics on next day.

Any idea how much time it typically takes to solve and review the 30 questions? I believe we need at least 3 hours (1 hour to solve adn 2 hours to review). What do you think?

AVakil · Answer

I would say that is ideal, I just wish I had that much time to do it. I would probably go mad after an hour. I have heard studying over 1 hour is not a good idea.

I have been studying about 1 hour a day since mid-September 2007.

eschn3am · Answer

I will routinely sit down and solve/review 100+ quant questions in a study session after work.

IMO, unless those are the toughest 30 GMAT questions ever created you can probably do more. However, if 30 seems like the right number for you definitely do what you feel works best. Just don't make the mistake of being complacent in your study efforts. After all, a few months of study can greatly affect where you are accepted and indirectly affect the rest of your life. Your score on the real thing should be an accurate reflection of your best efforts. Don't get stuck thinking "what if..." after you're finished.

AVakil · Answer

How long does that take you? I find it is very difficult to find the time to answer that many questions.

eschn3am · Answer

I'd say that it takes around 3 hours. It's certainly not a daily thing, but it does happen at least once a week. I'd say I typically get in a good two hours after work each day and much more on the weekends. I want to be so over prepared I'm not even nervous come test day.

AVakil · Answer

I try to get about an hour in the morning, and an hour at night. I still find the test to be very difficult.

emoryhopeful · Answer

I'd say if you had planned on doing blocks of 30, you should go ahead and bump it to blocks of 37 questions for quant and 41 questions for verbal. This way you're doing the same amount of problems as test day. This will help you practice your stamina for each section. I think the review of your problems shouldn't take twice as long as doing the problems originally. Even if you are starting at a low level of quant, you're probably going to know at least half the problems with 100 percent certainty. Then, you really only need to spend times on the ones you guessed on or missed for review. I would try to stay under 2 hours of study at a time, but that's just my opinion.

kbulse · Answer

Have you passed GMAT, or you just preparing?

eschn3am · Answer

preparing at this point. I'm taking it for the first time on February 28th

humbled4real · Answer

You have to go with what feels good for you you, but I agree tha if you are doing 30 questions per set, you may as well do the 37 and 41. I have a hard time staying attentive and need to find a good place to study.

I'll be taking the test in April. But it will be a 3rd attempt. I have to nail this.

I'll be taking the test in April. But it will be a 3rd attempt. I have to nail this.

sarangadhar · Answer

Thanks to everyone for your opinions..

I think I'll start with 30 questions a day, initially for couple of weeks, will scale to 37-41 Qs to build the stamina.

After a month, its better to solve questions around 80 in a single shot with one break of 5 mins. In this case, I can only do the review on next day as I don’t have time to solve and review all 80 questions on a weekday.

This may seem ridiculous to everybody, but i wanted to share my silly opinions.

But my question is, after the work, we will not have productivity to solve 80 questions in the evening. Do you feel the evening 3 hours (8-11 or 9-12)are productive after the work day? To think about morning, I should do from 5AM to 8AM as I have to go to work by 9 AM. Since, I can not sleep before 11 PM due to room conditions (everybody is awake till 12 night).

I have two options:
1. I generally return to home by 6:30 PM after work. So, 8Pm-11pm study, 11pm-6am sleep, 6am-7am cardio/jag will do. But, 8pm-11pm may not be productive.
2. 7pm-8pm cardio/jag, 10pm-5am sleep, 5am-8am study. This will be productive. But lazy to get up at 5am as I am addicted to sleep at 12 night and get up at 7-8 am morning.

Let me try to accustom to 2nd option. If not, then I'll switch to 1st option. Because of this deviation with routine procedure, I could not start the prep for the last 2 months. See how stupid I am.

bsjames2 · Answer

My advice would be to do your practice questions at the same time you'll be taking your test. That way you are more accustomed to solving prob's at the same time as your test. I studied at night for 2 months hardcore and I had 9am test time, I felt tired and wasn't used to solving prob's so early. Oh and my test score was not reflective of the prac. tests I did at night.

AVakil · Answer

Feels like we thread-jacked but here goes my routine:

7-8AM - Travel
8-9AM - Study
9-5PM - Work
5-8PM - Travel/Relax
8-10PM - Gym
10:30PM-11:30PM - Study

It's so hard to do this while working...

sarangadhar · Answer

Since we work and test timings overlap each other, we can not practice the questions during the test hours of the day..

II · Answer

How long have you been preparing for ?
I started my preparations during the Christmas week, and am also looking at taking my test late Feb or early March. I will have a check-point in early Feb to see how my preparations are going ... and then make a go or no-go decision for end of Feb.

What is your target score ?

Thanks.
II

eschn3am · Answer

I studied for a month or so at the end of last summer before getting swamped with school work last semester. I started back up in early December so I'll have studied almost 3 months before the test in late February. My game plan is to do so many practice problems and tests that the whole thing becomes second nature to me. I've pretty much resigned myself to not having any sort of social life for the next 7 weeks, but that's a small price to pay IMO. My target score is 800 (shouldn't everyone's be? :-D

) but I'll be happy with anything in the 99th percentile (760+).

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