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02 Nov 2013, 05:46
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Hi everyone, this is my first post! Been lurking, but I didn't find an answer so I figured I'd give this a shot.
I'm 3 weeks into the studying for the GMAT with a target date of February 8 for writing the exam. Alittle background, I scored 550 on my diagnostic which is somewhat surprising, considering I failed and retook high school mathematics. Didn't touch it for about 3 years of my professional life...so I'm trying to catch up on my theory. I'm aiming to go through everything, verbal and quant.
I'm wondering how people split their time between studying the theory (e.g. reading the study guides, strategies, and drill questions on a specialized component) and general practice (straight GMAT practice questions)? In my particular example, I'm working through the Manhattan GMAT books starting with Quant and the FDP, and I switch in to GMAT Qs later in the study session only to find myself thrown in to an ocean with hits or misses or taking way too slow on some questions.
I realize everyone has their own style of studying, so I'm curious to see if anyone had more a conscious way of approaching this?
Much thanks.
I'm 3 weeks into the studying for the GMAT with a target date of February 8 for writing the exam. Alittle background, I scored 550 on my diagnostic which is somewhat surprising, considering I failed and retook high school mathematics. Didn't touch it for about 3 years of my professional life...so I'm trying to catch up on my theory. I'm aiming to go through everything, verbal and quant.
I'm wondering how people split their time between studying the theory (e.g. reading the study guides, strategies, and drill questions on a specialized component) and general practice (straight GMAT practice questions)? In my particular example, I'm working through the Manhattan GMAT books starting with Quant and the FDP, and I switch in to GMAT Qs later in the study session only to find myself thrown in to an ocean with hits or misses or taking way too slow on some questions.
I realize everyone has their own style of studying, so I'm curious to see if anyone had more a conscious way of approaching this?
Much thanks.
03 Nov 2013, 04:02
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In my opinion, the concepts reviewed in guidebooks need to be reinforced with practice questions around the same time. Do not wait until finishing the guidebooks to start question practice, as you will probably forget a non-negligible amount of the concepts. I also found revisiting the guidebooks a second or even a third time (yes, a full read-through) helps quite a bit.
And do not worry about "running out" of questions. For math, there are the OG books, GMATPrep, GMATClub forums, GMATClub tests, Jeff Sackmann, Ariel Goldberg, and Manhattan questions banks and practice tests to keep you very busy! And for verbal, you have the OG books, GMATPrep, Manhattan question banks and online tests, GMATClub forums, and LSAT resources (for CR and RC).
And do not worry about "running out" of questions. For math, there are the OG books, GMATPrep, GMATClub forums, GMATClub tests, Jeff Sackmann, Ariel Goldberg, and Manhattan questions banks and practice tests to keep you very busy! And for verbal, you have the OG books, GMATPrep, Manhattan question banks and online tests, GMATClub forums, and LSAT resources (for CR and RC).
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