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The Best Way to Study for the Executive Assessment: 7 Strategies for Success
Preparing for the Executive Assessment (EA) is a serious undertaking, so you’ll need to follow a solid study strategy to ensure that you get your desired EA score. The good news is that if you have a well-structured, organized, and well-thought-out study plan, there is no reason why you can’t hit your target EA score.

This article will walk through the components of a great EA study plan. The proposed study plan is broken into two key parts: the learning phase and the practice phase. This two-phase strategy is the ideal way to study for the EA.

Let’s begin by discussing the two phases of your study plan in detail.

The Two Main Phases of EA Preparation
The learning and practice-test phases are two separate phases of your EA study plan. The first part (the learning phase) entails studying and practicing EA quantitative, verbal, and Integrated Reasoning topics. The second part (the practice-test phase) comprises taking full-length practice tests to put your skills to the test.

These two phases must be kept distinct. After taking a practice exam to establish a baseline score, don’t take any more practice tests until you’ve completed the entire learning phase of your study plan.

We recommend waiting because, if you take practice tests too soon, you won’t be able to make much sense of them. Think about it: is it helpful to see that you are getting questions wrong because you have not learned the content on which those questions are based? For example, let’s say you take a practice exam before learning exponents and incorrectly answer four questions dealing with exponents. What exactly does that mean? What you already knew: you aren’t very good at exponents. Such a result is not surprising, considering you haven’t studied exponents yet!

Let’s now discuss some more details of the first phase of your EA preparation: the learning phase.

Phase 1: The Learning Phase
You’ve researched the schools you want to attend and set a goal score. To get your baseline score, you’ve finished your first full-length, official Executive Assessment practice test under realistic testing conditions. Great — you’re ready to dive into your EA prep!

So, you might be wondering, “Now what?” To begin, consider that EA quantitative, verbal, and IR questions span many topics. You may be thinking that because you will take the EA exam, you don’t have to study as much as you would have to for the GMAT exam. Honestly, the difference is minimal! Sure, there are fewer questions on the EA than on the GMAT, but except for Geometry, all GMAT topics are fair game. So, getting a great EA score will take time and effort.

Regarding how you should study for your EA, it’s impossible to predict which topics will appear on any exam. As a result, you need to follow a thorough study approach that allows you to be super prepared for anything that comes your way on test day. In other words, learning random EA topics with no organization or structure is not a productive or efficient study strategy.

On the other hand, a topical strategy is a highly effective way to master the many topics and concepts you’ll need to know to succeed on the EA. Let’s take a closer look at this strategy.

Strategy #1: Use a Topic-by-Topic Approach
We know that there is a ton you have to learn to succeed on the EA. In order to learn so much information, it’s most practical to study one topic at a time, and then move to the next topic once you’ve mastered the previous one.

If you’re wondering why, consider this: do you think it would be beneficial to move from Reading Comprehension questions to Sentence Correction questions before mastering either of those topics? I think you know the answer ….

Would jumping from Exponent questions to Quadratic questions to Probability questions before knowing those topics be beneficial? Again, I think you know the answer ….

If you are constantly jumping from one topic to the next before gaining mastery, you won’t be able to gain traction in any one quantitative or verbal topic.

Thus, the structure of your EA study plan should be to master one topic at a time, and then practice questions only on that topic before moving on to the next. Start with the fundamentals and work your way up to more advanced concepts using this strategy.