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So i followed the 60 day plan (daily email ) on what u should follow. Yes I did make progress I was getting practice scores in 300s (YIKES) now i avg in the 400 to mid 400s. However I need to score around 500 to mid 500s. what do you recommend? the 60 day plan was intense and It actually took my about 90 days I could not follow that plan daily. However I need work in a lot of areas obviously what do you suggest I need a realistic plan. I work so I do not have the most time out of the day but I have 1-2 hours to spare. The problem w/ me is I feel like I forgot everything I learned..meaning I do not have a retention for it. HELP HELP all advice is welcome
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Hi happy098,

Before I can offer you the specific advice that you're looking for, I'd like to know a bit more about how you've studied and your timeline/goals:

1) How long have you studied?
2) What materials have you used?
3) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?

4) What is your exact goal score?
5) When are you planning to take the GMAT?
6) When are you planning to apply to Business School?

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Hi happy098,

Before I can offer you the specific advice that you're looking for, I'd like to know a bit more about how you've studied and your timeline/goals:

1) How long have you studied? about 90 days
2) What materials have you used? gmatprepnow videos /og 2015 sometimes the Manhattan books
3) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)? quant 25 verbal 21

4) What is your exact goal score? 550 but my program will accept 500
5) When are you planning to take the GMAT? August/September
6) When are you planning to apply to Business School? October want to enroll for Spring 2017 semester

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I also noticed that I have a hard time just staying on a study plan but I did notice my score went from 300s to 400s so I saw about a 70+ jump
But I feel like I am make such slow progress I also feel like I am learning stuff from like High school and I can not remember this stuff

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Hi happy098,

From your last post, it's not clear WHEN you took your last practice CAT. If it's been at least 2 weeks, then you should plan to take a new FULL-LENGTH CAT (with the Essay and IR sections) and report back here with your scores. With the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores that you listed, you have the potential to pick up BIG points in BOTH the Quant and Verbal sections. You could conceivably pick up ALL of the points that you're looking for in either of those sections alone (or with a mix of both) so you have a number of different ways to accomplish your goal. It's also worth noting that you don't have to correctly answer ANY questions that you think are too hard/weird, but you do have to minimize the number of little mistakes that you make on the 'gettable' questions. By extension, you can quickly 'dump' any of those hard/weird questions (just take a guess and move on), which should provide you with more time to answer the gettable questions. If retention is a major issue for you, then you'll need a study plan the 'revisits' prior lessons and concepts repeatedly throughout the plan so that you can keep all of your skills sharp.

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