amarga wrote:
Hi GMATClub,
I do majority of my studying on a screen so I was really looking forward to mixing it up by using the physical
OG books with scratch paper and a pen. Turns out these books are organized by difficulty
Currently I am flipping between PS and DS and trying to do one of each, alternating, but to do the same and mix up difficulty levels would be too much of a headache.
How did you folks use the book? Do you complete the questions as they are presented to you? Easy to Medium to Hard? Or did you forego the physical book completely and use the online question bank to generate mixed sets?
Are the questions in the online bank identical to those in the book? What's the point of the physical book then?? I miss the smell of real paper...
Hi amarga,
The right way to use
OG is to use to practice GMAT like questions only after you learn the necessary concepts and the required methodology. There's no point practicing questions from
OG when you do not have the sufficient learning required to solve the questions.
The right way to approach your prep is:
- Learn the concepts (Deal with one topic at a time)
- Learn the methodology to solve questions of that topic (Most important)
- Practice a few questions of that topic to solidify the learning (You can use OG here)
- Take timed quizzes to get used to time constraint
So, as you see
OG comes only at the later part of your preparation. In our online course, we provide you the details of the question number from
OG after you finish the concepts videos and concept boosters of that particular topic. This way you don't have to struggle too much to find the questions of that topic or worry about when to use
OG.
If you wish to know how that works, you can check that out on the free trial of
GMATWhiz. If you still wish to know how to strategize your prep, you can get in touch with me over a call using the below link.
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