Ankit2112 wrote:
Hello everyone,
I want to start my gmat prep.could anyone help me with the free resources that will help me in my preparation.As I am very new to this forum.
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First take one free mock from one of the GMAT prep companies (
Manhattan Gmat, TTIP,
egmat, etc) to set your base in Quants and verbal. This will tell you where you need to focus most of your energy. Set your goal, what is your dream college and what score is needed to reach that goal. You can improve 50 points each month with 3 hrs of study everyday. So if you are on 600 and your goal is 700, you will need at least 2 months and another one month for improving test strategy i.e a total of 3 month. If your goal is 750, you will need 5-6 months cause going from 700 to 750 is more harder than going from 600 to 700.
If you are totally new, buy or download these books for free from the internet
Manhattan SC
Manhattan Advanced Quants
Official Guide (
OG) - 3 sets (one is general, second is quants and third is verbal. They also have an advanced guide which has 700+ questions)
For RC and CR, download from internet
Manhattan GMAT CR and RC books and read them
Also if you are weak in quants, you can learn basics online or download
Manhattan GMAT books from the internet.
Apart from this for practice use gmatclub questions.
Buy good mock test preferably Official GMAC test and
Manhattan GMAT test.
For first 2 months take one test every 15 days. Learn from analysis of test what topics you are weak on and then focus on those topics and practice lots of (50-60) questions on those topics. You can get topic wise question on gmatclub.com
Then in last one month take a test every week and and do the same analysis and practice on those topics. Also analyse and focus on your test taking strategies. Pacing is very important. If you do not complete test in time(ie do all questions in given time) you will be penalised heavily. So learn to guess and move on on very tough questions which you cant solve in under 2 minutes. Keep improving on your test taking strategy(which questions to attempt, which questions to guess on with each test to arrive at a great test taking strategy tailored to your talents.
On last two days just revise the formulas and burn into your mind your test taking strategies. Let your mind be calm and fresh on the test day so that you can do your best on test day.
Best of luck