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The average GMAT student improves by less than 30 points when re-taking the exam , according to GMAC data. So be prepared for some serious work. We’ll repeat that last part: be ready to work HARD . If you're not dedicated to your GMAT studies, this isn't for you. Ready to get started? Buckle up. Watch this video first! Here’s a video that explains what the study plan is and – more importantly – how best to use it. You’ll save a ton of time in the long run if you watch the video BEFORE getting started. So please don’t skip this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYJmeIJAm4 - What You’ll Need Resources you’ll need before starting the study plan: GMAT Official Guide 2024-2025 bundle . An official LSAT book. ( Here’s why. ) This one would be a good choice, but any of the LSAT books with 10 full, official LSAT tests is OK. You could also buy an online subscription to the LSAT library here . Set up an error log of some sort. Use the built in Error Log at GMAT Club , here are some options , and click here to download a version of the minimalist tracker we use with our private tutoring students at GMAT Ninja (click on File --> Make a copy, please). Use anything you’d like. But use something. Here are additional practice resources you’ll eventually want to purchase, but they can wait until later in the process: Official mba.com practice exams . There are 6 (4 paid, 2 free), and you’ll eventually want all of them. Official mba.com practice questions GMAT Club tests (or other non-official practice tests for quant only) Optional: Forum Quiz for targeted practice of some topics Optional, but recommended: GMAT simulation pad if you’re planning to take the GMAT in a test center; If you’re planning to take the GMAT online, you might want to buy a whiteboard that fits the requirements for the online GMAT exam , such as this one . 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If you make careless errors or struggle on the content this week, these resources might help: 1. If you’re making careless errors, this video on how to approach GMAT quant (also in the Week 1 quant homework list) is essential viewing. 2. If you’re struggling with the fundamental content this week, check out this GMAT arithmetic video or this algebra video . 3. GMAT Club Math Book: full pdf | algebra section 4. Heroic quant threads from Bunuel : Ultimate GMAT Quant Megathread | Signature Question Collection | All You Need for Quant In Week 1, your goal is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to GMAT RC questions. We’ll start with a video and article to help you understand how to approach RC passages, and then give you some nice long, hard RC sets so that you can put our advice into practice. How to approach RC homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through . Do every set with test-like intensity , but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet. 2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. Week 1 RC homework 1. Watch this video on the fundamentals of RC or read this beginner’s guide to RC , which covers the same principles. (~ 1 hr.) 2. Do a full LSAT RC set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr). Click here to learn why we assign LSAT sets for GMAT students . 3. (Optional, but recommended) One more LSAT RC set 4. (Optional) Do 3-4 RC passages from older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition here . What to do AFTER completing an RC homework set Don’t obsess over the questions you missed. You’re never going to see these passages again, and you don’t want to waste too much time reviewing them. Instead, focus on general patterns. Did you miss a bunch of primary purpose questions? Inference questions? Did you get intimidated by certain types of passages? Did you panic? Run out of energy? Pay special attention to errors that surprised you – did you somehow make a silly mistake? If you missed three or more questions on a particular passage, you might consider redoing the entire passage from scratch. If you do better the second time, ask yourself: what should you have done differently the first time? For more on how to interpret your RC results, check out the 2nd post in this thread . Need help with RC? If you struggled with your RC homework sets this week, here are some resources that might help: Beginner’s guide to RC YouTube video on how to approach RC , or a similar, newer RC basics video . All GMAT Ninja RC resources More RC explanations than anybody should ever read A whole lot of YouTube videos on many topics , or an RC-specific video course If you read the RC section above, this is going to sound very, very familiar. In Week 1, your goal is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to GMAT CR questions. We’ll start with a video and article, and follow that with some HARD practice. Enjoy! How to approach CR homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through . Do every set with test-like intensity , but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet. 2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. Week 1 CR homework 1. Watch this video on how to approach CR or read this beginner’s guide to CR , which covers the same ideas. (~ 1 hr.) 2. Do a full LSAT CR set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr). Click here to learn why we assign LSAT sets for GMAT students . 3. (Optional, but recommended) One additional LSAT CR set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr) 4. (Very optional) Do 15-20 CR from older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition here . What to do AFTER completing a CR homework set 1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch. Do your best to “wash your brains” and pretend that you’ve never seen the questions before. If you get most of the questions RIGHT the second time, that’s a sign that your overall CR process isn’t nearly as consistent as it needs to be, and fixing your process needs to be your #1 area of focus. See below for some videos that might help. If you miss a question a second time, don’t overreact: obsessively studying individual questions drains a TON of your study time – and it isn’t terribly valuable on CR. So don’t spend hours memorizing the steps for individual questions. For more on how to interpret your CR results, see the 2nd post in this thread . Need help with CR? If you struggled with your CR homework sets this week, here are some resources that might help: Beginners’ guide to CR A YouTube video on how to approach CR or a similar, newer CR fundamentals video (also linked in the Week 1 homework list). 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Haha! In a vacuum, I agree: official GMAT questions are obviously fundamentally better than LSAT questions if you're taking the GMAT. They also have explanations. Sure, those OG explanations aren't always the clearest things, but they're better than nothing. I've spilled a lot of (virtual) ink on this elsewhere, but here's the short version of why I recommend LSAT CR and RC in the study plan: LSAT passages are longer and harder than GMAT passages, and if you're pursuing an elite GMAT verbal score, that's a good thing. Once you transition to GMAT passages, they'll feel easier, and you'll (ideally!) slice right through them. Because every LSAT set is roughly the same length and difficulty, your performance data makes it much easier to track your progress -- and it also makes it easier to compare your CR and RC performance. Ideally, every set should be in the same range, in terms of both speed and accuracy. Because GMAT questions vary in difficulty as you move through the OGs, the data just isn't as easy to interpret, and it's harder to know where you stand using just the GMAT OGs. There's a limited supply of official GMAT CR and RC questions. So if you need a lot of work on verbal, you'll need to supplement with something -- and LSAT CR/RC is the next best thing, especially if you use the LSAT early the process, and transition to the GMAT later. Which is exactly what we've baked into the study plan. Could you head straight to the GMAT questions instead? Absolutely -- particularly if you aren't necessarily looking for a huge improvement on the verbal section. Not everybody needs THAT many reps on this stuff, for one reason or another. srikar08 , you're correct that the lack of official LSAT explanations is a limitation, unless we want to send you to a paid resource of some sort. As bb suggested, try googling the questions if you're really stuck, but make sure you read the guidance on what to do after each set -- and the guidance on how to interpret your results. Yes, you need to understand where you're going wrong, but you also don't want to spend too much time obsessing over every single question. I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!

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Hi bb,
Thanks for the quick reply. I do have the OG 24-25 edition but it is mentioned in the week 1 homework that it is best not to use that material right away. Or is there some other material you are talking about?
I can google the explanations, I didn't think of that.

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I went through the LSAT sets of RC and CR, and I am scoring around 60%. However, I have no clue why they are wrong because there is explanation for the answers and as a result I don't understand what to enter in the error logs.

Yeah, that’s a common issue with the LSAT tests. You can google them, probably the best first shot/option to get the explanations.

But I would not go to LSAT if you have GMAT material available with explanations. I assume you don’t?

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Sorry, I did not mean to contradict Charles. If he said not to use it, then don't use it

It is very important you understand not only what mistake you made, but also why, and how you can NOT make it again, so it would be very important for you to have clarity of these questions.

If you are just starting out, then I would stick with easier ones and the hard ones, I would print out or mark or bookmark and come back a bit later once you have a good handle but I will let GMATNinja perhaps share his take on it.

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Hi,
Is there a specific post where we can find the 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions mentioned above? When I click the link above, I see a long list of posts each with one question in general. Does this mean I need to select random 25 questions or is there a specific post that has 25 sub-555 questions that corresponds to the task above ?

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Yes, that's a limitation of the study plan, unfortunately. Those links will give you a very long list of questions from the forum -- and they'll be different for everybody. But at least they're free, and each one comes with a nice, long discussion thread.

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Sorry, I did not mean to contradict Charles. If he said not to use it, then don't use it

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Haha! In a vacuum, I agree: official GMAT questions are obviously fundamentally better than LSAT questions if you're taking the GMAT. They also have explanations. Sure, those OG explanations aren't always the clearest things, but they're better than nothing.

I've spilled a lot of (virtual) ink on this elsewhere, but here's the short version of why I recommend LSAT CR and RC in the study plan:

LSAT passages are longer and harder than GMAT passages, and if you're pursuing an elite GMAT verbal score, that's a good thing. Once you transition to GMAT passages, they'll feel easier, and you'll (ideally!) slice right through them.
Because every LSAT set is roughly the same length and difficulty, your performance data makes it much easier to track your progress -- and it also makes it easier to compare your CR and RC performance. Ideally, every set should be in the same range, in terms of both speed and accuracy. Because GMAT questions vary in difficulty as you move through the OGs, the data just isn't as easy to interpret, and it's harder to know where you stand using just the GMAT OGs.
There's a limited supply of official GMAT CR and RC questions. So if you need a lot of work on verbal, you'll need to supplement with something -- and LSAT CR/RC is the next best thing, especially if you use the LSAT early the process, and transition to the GMAT later. Which is exactly what we've baked into the study plan.

Could you head straight to the GMAT questions instead? Absolutely -- particularly if you aren't necessarily looking for a huge improvement on the verbal section. Not everybody needs THAT many reps on this stuff, for one reason or another.

srikar08, you're correct that the lack of official LSAT explanations is a limitation, unless we want to send you to a paid resource of some sort. As bb suggested, try googling the questions if you're really stuck, but make sure you read the guidance on what to do after each set -- and the guidance on how to interpret your results. Yes, you need to understand where you're going wrong, but you also don't want to spend too much time obsessing over every single question.

I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!

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Thank you for catching that, yashyadav247! The link is fixed, and I added a video option, too. Enjoy!

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This is an amazing plan. Really helping me catch my mistakes and slowly build up the accuracy and speed!

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This is an amazing plan. Really helping me catch my mistakes and slowly build up the accuracy and speed!

Woohoo! Appreciate the feedback. How did you do?

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Hi BB, still in the process of studying right now. But practice scores have gone up.

I started at 575 (my first test attempt at the centre on 30 July 2025, which I took for qualifying for app fee waivers as a Forte MBALaunch Member) --> 605 --> 635. I still have about 7 weeks remaining on this plan, but it is better (for me) than most plans and not overwhelming at all.

Woohoo! Appreciate the feedback. How did you do?

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Hi GMAT Ninja,
1. Is this study plan for the GMAT focus edition?
2. One of the Quant Homework: 5. A set of 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions, available here. Yes, they’re easy. That’s exactly the point – please don’t make any sloppy mistakes!. Inside the link, there is a tab: Bunuel's Algebra Diagnostic Test, and a lot of questions here are very difficult exponents questions. I just want to know do we also need to finish the Exponent video from GMAT ninja's playlist? Or does this part happen in the following weeks?
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Hi GMATNinja,

I am preparing for the GMAT in 2026 and have bought the 2025-2026 OG Books.
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Hi GMATNinja,

I am preparing for the GMAT in 2026 and have bought the 2025-2026 OG Books.
Is this study plan still applicable to me?

Yup, the study plan is designed for the current version of the GMAT, and it fits any edition of the Official Guides from 2023-24 onwards.

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Hi GMATNinja,

Thanks for the reply!

Could you please suggest how can i make this plan work without the LSAT book since it is not available in my region.

Additionally, how do I do targeted practise of quant topics from the OG book?

In week-1 of quant homework, it is mentioned to complete qts 1-25, however these questions include other topics like probability as well whereas we have only covered linear algebra in week-1.

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If you want to use LSATs, the easiest thing might be to sign up for LSAC's LawHub, which gives you a handful of tests for free. Once you finish those free LSAT preptests, you could either purchase a full LawHub subscription, or just switch to the GMAT for RC and CR at that stage. If you need more GMAT verbal questions than the current OGs provide, you could always pick up an old edition of the Official Guide or Verbal Guide -- the 12th edition of the OG or 2nd edition of the Verbal Guide have very few questions that appear in current editions, and the question style hasn't changed at all for RC and CR.

In the study plan, the purpose of the OG sets is to give you mixed practice -- not topic-based practice, which is covered in other ways. When you take the actual exam, the topics will obviously be mixed together, and it's a good thing to get a feel for that early in your prep. No, it's not perfect, since there's a chance that you'll see some topics that you haven't mastered yet. But the OG questions are relatively easy early in the study plan, and even if you haven't explicitly studied a topic, you might do well on the questions on those topics early in the OG -- and even if you struggle a bit, it's not a bad thing to grapple with those topics occasionally in the early stages of your prep.

I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!

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Thanks for the detailed reply!
Appreciate everything you do for the community.

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Hey Charles thank you for putting together this study plan. For "5. A set of 25 sub-555 algebra problem-solving questions, available here. Yes, they’re easy. That’s exactly the point – please don’t make any sloppy mistakes!" do I just pick 25 of these randomly? Where are these questions from? Would I accidentally do any of the OG questions in this lot?

Also it's from most recent, would it be a good idea to sort its by top views and do the top 25 viewed questions, or is the 25 most recent a good idea too?

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Great questions, eaat. I've always struggled with this part of the study plan, to be honest. I think it's valuable (and maybe essential?) to do some topic-based practice, and the whole point of the study plan is that we want to rely mostly on free resources. Those links to a bunch of GMAT Club search results is the best solution I could find, but it's far from perfect.

The idea is that you'd just pick 25 at random, or the first 25 that happen to pop up in the search (which will presumably be forum threads with the most recent activity on them). Some might be OG questions, but I think that's probably OK -- it's not a big deal if you redo some OG questions, as long as you're avoiding questions from the mba.com practice tests.

I wouldn't use the top 25 most-viewed questions, though. I think that's going to bias things towards older OG and mba.com test questions, and you don't want to overdo those.

If anybody reading this has better ideas, I'm all ears!

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Hi! Would you recommend this plan for someone who is just starting their prep? I am really poor in Quant and have never studied maths after school (its been 10 years). I am worried about Quant and have taken up the free Manhatten & GMAT club math books to brushen up my concepts.

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I want to practice RC and CR from LSAT test as recommended in the post, but I have difficulty in finding the right section that is the closest to CR out of the 4 sections.
I have managed to narrow down to Section III for RC practice though.
Someone please help me find the CR section in LSAT that resembles GMAT CR.

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Hi HermioneReads,

If you are using one of the "10 LSAT PrepTests..." books, there are usually 4 sections in the table of content page. Choose the "Logical Reasoning" sections (usually two sections in one test). Those are the equivalents of GMAT CR.

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