The good news is this: October is still a ways away, meaning you still have plenty of time to change where you are at.
Tutors are indeed one possible way to go, but not the only one. Here are a few quick thoughts on the different ways one can study:
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Private tutoring makes sense if we need a very high score and an individual study plan, and especially – if we have extra money to spare in order to get additional attention and feedback or to spend more time on certain areas. Putting cost aside, even the best private tutors only know what they see in the few questions that you’ve solved in front of them.
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books, the
OG is a must. aside from that, I wouldn't base my studies on books. the gmat is a computer adaptive test, while books are neither of those things.
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A classroom based GMAT Coursemakes sense if you feel comfortable in a classroom setting, your budget is very high, you are self-motivated and don’t have big gaps in your knowledge that need special attention, and your schedule can accommodate a course that meets at a specific time every week. However, as every GMAT student knows, the real work happens back at home, outside the classroom, when you practice and try to figure out solutions by yourself.
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online courses allow us to choose our own time and place. However, many of these are videos of a power point presentation showing the course material followed by a bulk of practice questions.
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Live online courses are also an option. These have a similar experience to the old fashioned GMAT class except you watch the tutor through a screen. When taking an in-person or live-online course we should make sure that we will have enough face time.
- Exampal (my company) has a different type of course,
online computer assisted customised learning. This uses personalised machine learning to monitor thousands of students, and provides you with the approaches that proved most efficient for each given question.
- one other point: even if you decide you only want a tutor, through examPAL, you can get 4 or 8 sessions with our expert tutors, for a lot less than it would take you to just get the same amount of sessions elsewhere. Check us
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Jdevinee123 wrote:
I took a diagnostic exam and scored very very poorly (almost too embarrassed to say the score). However, I will say my biggest weakness is definitely Quant and I/R. I take the actual exam the second week in October and don’t know if I should hire a tutor or just try and self teach.
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Verbal: 31
Quant: 27
I/R: 4