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Please critique my 3 month study plan
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Updated on: 29 Feb 2012, 18:33
Updated on: 29 Feb 2012, 18:33
Hello everyone,
Long time lurker here. My 1st attempt at the GMAT was back in Nov 2011 without any studying whatsoever. I got a 430 (29Q, 21V)
. I'm aiming to get my score as high as possible so I put together this 11 week study plan on the Excel doc I attached below. I grabbed info and suggestions from the previous posts I've read on here. I have 2 kids (aged 2 & 1) so my study time is after they go to sleep.
my study materials:
- 8 Manhattan GMAT guides, online test bank, & 6 CAT exams
- GMAT OG 12
- GMAT quant & verbal review 2nd editions
- GMAT club tests
Do you have any feedback? what do you think I should change?
Thanks in advance.
Carlos
Long time lurker here. My 1st attempt at the GMAT was back in Nov 2011 without any studying whatsoever. I got a 430 (29Q, 21V)
. I'm aiming to get my score as high as possible so I put together this 11 week study plan on the Excel doc I attached below. I grabbed info and suggestions from the previous posts I've read on here. I have 2 kids (aged 2 & 1) so my study time is after they go to sleep. my study materials:
- 8 Manhattan GMAT guides, online test bank, & 6 CAT exams
- GMAT OG 12
- GMAT quant & verbal review 2nd editions
- GMAT club tests
Do you have any feedback? what do you think I should change?
Thanks in advance.
Carlos
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Re: Please critique my 3 month study plan
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29 Feb 2012, 18:27
29 Feb 2012, 18:27
Looks very detailed! If you can stick to what you have outlined you should do pretty well. I have three suggestions:
It looks like you may be scheduling too many CAT exams at the end of your studying/consecutively. I don't know how you work but I personally know that I would burn out at that rate. I would suggest taking one after you finish your quant section to see how you've improved and which areas are still weak.
Another important note is to remain flexible. I'm finding some material from the MGMAT guides much more difficult than others. Instead of sticking to my schedule, I've adapted some to spend more time on these problem areas. Just an aspect to keep in mind.
Finally I would suggest to get the OG12 book. They are official questions and are great to practice what you've learned in the MGMAT guides.
All in all it looks like a solid plan.
Best of luck.
It looks like you may be scheduling too many CAT exams at the end of your studying/consecutively. I don't know how you work but I personally know that I would burn out at that rate. I would suggest taking one after you finish your quant section to see how you've improved and which areas are still weak.
Another important note is to remain flexible. I'm finding some material from the MGMAT guides much more difficult than others. Instead of sticking to my schedule, I've adapted some to spend more time on these problem areas. Just an aspect to keep in mind.
Finally I would suggest to get the OG12 book. They are official questions and are great to practice what you've learned in the MGMAT guides.
All in all it looks like a solid plan.
Best of luck.
Re: Please critique my 3 month study plan
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29 Feb 2012, 18:37
29 Feb 2012, 18:37
Yekrut wrote:
Looks very detailed! If you can stick to what you have outlined you should do pretty well. I have three suggestions:
It looks like you may be scheduling too many CAT exams at the end of your studying/consecutively. I don't know how you work but I personally know that I would burn out at that rate. I would suggest taking one after you finish your quant section to see how you've improved and which areas are still weak.
Another important note is to remain flexible. I'm finding some material from the MGMAT guides much more difficult than others. Instead of sticking to my schedule, I've adapted some to spend more time on these problem areas. Just an aspect to keep in mind.
Finally I would suggest to get the OG12 book. They are official questions and are great to practice what you've learned in the MGMAT guides.
All in all it looks like a solid plan.
Best of luck.
It looks like you may be scheduling too many CAT exams at the end of your studying/consecutively. I don't know how you work but I personally know that I would burn out at that rate. I would suggest taking one after you finish your quant section to see how you've improved and which areas are still weak.
Another important note is to remain flexible. I'm finding some material from the MGMAT guides much more difficult than others. Instead of sticking to my schedule, I've adapted some to spend more time on these problem areas. Just an aspect to keep in mind.
Finally I would suggest to get the OG12 book. They are official questions and are great to practice what you've learned in the MGMAT guides.
All in all it looks like a solid plan.
Best of luck.
I forgot to list the OG guides. I'm definitely gonna take some exams after I finish Quant to see where I'm at. thanks for replying.
)! Or maybe you reach a plateau and mindlessly continuing to cover more and more topics is just not the answer. Mohater, Yerkut, and others will advice you to stop, soak in the material, learn from your mistakes and then move on. Create error logs and maintain them religiously. All of this will rip holes in your excel plan but for the better 
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