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18 Aug 2018, 01:08
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I am preparing for taking the exam in December
I took the exam 2 years ago and I got 460
IR 5, Q38 and V16
I got so sick at the end of the exam that I started to choose random answers to leave the exam room
Now I have almost 3 months, I have MGMAT 6th edition, FoM, FoV, OG2016 and I am buying OG2019
Also I am studying with a friend who didn't take the exam before
Any advice which study plan we would follow for the 3 months
Taking into consideration that I can't remember anything so it is like new to me
There are lots of plans and it is little overwhelming.
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I took the exam 2 years ago and I got 460
IR 5, Q38 and V16
I got so sick at the end of the exam that I started to choose random answers to leave the exam room
Now I have almost 3 months, I have MGMAT 6th edition, FoM, FoV, OG2016 and I am buying OG2019
Also I am studying with a friend who didn't take the exam before
Any advice which study plan we would follow for the 3 months
Taking into consideration that I can't remember anything so it is like new to me
There are lots of plans and it is little overwhelming.
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18 Aug 2018, 14:33
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Hi GMAT717
Forget what happened 2 years ago.
That's not important now.
You are starting fresh.
Both, you and your friend should start from scratch, and should use only beginners plan.
Manhattan guides and official guides are great way to go.
Manhattan should be used for covering foundations and theory along with practice questions, and official guides will be used for testing via their practice questions.
I agree there are a lot of, usually rigid GMAT plans there and that's why I am always for more adaptive personalized ones.
First important thing to learn is that, whatever you decide, no plan should be static.
You will modify it through time to suit your needs.
Start by opening a GMAT journal or GMAT error log.
Get a psychical notebook, or open up a Word file on your computer, whatever you prefer.
You will write there your observations toward GMAT topics, like weakness vs. strengths and what practice question gave you headache and which ones you need to review more often.
Set Your GMAT Goal
First, you need to know your current/starting GMAT score so you should take the mock test.
For taking mock tests in general I can recommend Official GMAC ones, Manhattan and GMAT Club tests.
You should take a practice mock test in conditions that simulate the actual exam as much as possible.
You should do the AWA and IR sections also, meaning full test.
The mental effort it takes to do these sometimes skipped sections will affect your performance on Quant and Verbal, so you should not skip them, just because they are (maybe) less important.
Take the exactly same breaks as they will be on real test.
Don’t answer the phone, don’t eat or drink except during the breaks, and so on....basically make it as close to the real test as you can.
Don't worry if your starting score is somewhat low, that's fine, you just started, that's expected.
Second score that you need to determine is average GMAT score of schools where you want to apply.
That's your target score or ballpark number.
These two numbers will give you an idea of how much improvement you will need and may affect your prep plans, including the length of time you plan to spend.
Diagnose Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Once you have your first GMAT mock score, use your test results to figure out your strengths and weaknesses in terms of both equally important content and timing.
Take notes on paper, then summarize your analysis in your journal.
The data will simply tell you what happened.
On the other hand, your careful analysis should tell you why that happened and how you plan to attack those topics/questions in the future.
Plan Your Schedule
In general most people initially underestimate the amount of time they’ll need to study, that's common, you still don't know what it takes to achieve your GMAT goal and you cannot correctly estimate how much time and effort you need to invest to get there.
But you already determined that you have 3 months so we will work with that.
Primary Study Period.
You’ll set a rough amount of time that you’re likely going to need for primary studying, that is the time you take to master the material, not including a comprehensive final review.
This rough time frame is likely to change as you see how fast or slow you make progress.
In your time period allowed this should be 2 months.
In that time you should go over all Manhattan guides, both verbal and quant, except for advanced quant book.
This means to divide for instance number of pages with days allowed in those 2 months in order to get sense how much you should cover per day.
Of course on some days you will cover more and on some you will cover less but try to stay on track.
You should cover both math and verbal part, per day.
Review Period.
You will also need to set aside time for review after you finish your primary study and before you take the test.
In your time frame allowed this should be something like 2-3 weeks.
Along with this theory review, if you already didn't during your primary study period, you should now go over all official questions in official guides.
Last week or two before scheduled test should be used for mocks building stamina and score estimation, also careful detailed review of mocks.
Ideally, you should keep doing this until your practice test scores are in your desired range of average GMAT scores of your targeted schools.
Analyzing Problems
When doing GMAT-format problems, be aware that roughly 80% of your learning comes after you have finished doing the problem.
Your goal here is not to do a million questions—your goal is to do a much more modest number of questions and really analyze them to a dot if you can.
When you study practice problems, your overall goal should be to master the problem you are working on right now.
That means that, when you see in future different problem that tests the same thing as this current problem, you will recognize that the future problem has certain things in common with this current problem, and you will know what steps to take as a result.
If you can recognize what to do, then you will be faster and you will be more effective, because you'll know that the method you're using actually worked the last time you saw a similar problem.
Caveat
If you can it would be wise to include a couple of extra weeks of study time as an additional buffer, just in case.
Fact is that people who are employed might get extra busy, people also get sick, we all procrastinate sometimes… and in general many things may happen unexpectedly.
It is just the way life is.
Happy prep !
