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Hi Everyone

I looked up through this forum which emphasizes on the proper mode of study,
lets assume that proper means effective and attracts less distraction.

I am a working professional with 4 years of experience, and thinking of GMAT since 2013.

Now when i am feeling the heat of getting plateaued , it is getting imperative
for me to think of an exit plan, and the GMAT is the biggest game changer
for working professionals.

However, i have been studying for 15 days now, and studying at office, home
but could not gain the momentum, i know many of other aspirants might be facing
this roadblock.

I study mostly at office in my night shifts on the desktop (windows based), but after a couple of hour or so
my eyes starts straining. I could not even look up to the system.

When at home, i have a mac-book, which has a good eye-friendly screen, but i cannot
study onto that with much ease of a windows based desktop,.

Given that most preparation based programmes (GMAT club,e-gmat,magoosh are completely online,
so the preparation will involve a healthy hours of your daily time being before the screen.

When i a am lying on bed, i would scroll the gmatclub OG directory or would browse some other forum,
but here the issue is similar, i cant maintain an error log on an iphone, besides the screen is too small.

So i decided to invest in a tablet which would support a stylus( i am yet to buy it) , the idea is to not waste time
and dont get thinking if i had this my studies would have been more effective.

Now i am thinking, may be getting a desktop computer with a bigger screen would be a good idea, as it
is highly user friendly and maintaining an error log would be a breeze.

Please comment.
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Thanks for sharing.

My two thoughts on this:
1) Take short breaks every hour or so to walk around. Most would take a break from studying by browsing around, check scores on their favorite sports or logging on facebook, try to avoid these to replace these with walking around, better for your eyes, general health, and concentration, as well.

2) Maybe you can study many of the topics on the books (hardcopy of GMAT prep materials). These would save you hours of eye strain.

Wish you all the best with your GMAT preparations!