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3 Month GMAT Study Schedule (Math Focused)

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If your GMAT test date is coming up soon and you’re worried about the Quantitative section, it’s time to stop worrying and start preparing! In this GMAT quant study plan (3 months), we’ve put together everything you need to turn math from a weakness into a strength.

In this plan, we’ll go over how to study for GMAT sections week by week. By following this schedule, you’ll put yourself in the best position to boost your GMAT math scores for your MBA applications—and help yourself get into the business schools of your dreams!

Getting Started

FAQ: How do I know whether this is the right plan for me?

I designed four different versions of the Three Month Plan, and I need you to start with a little self-diagnosis. Which sounds most like you? 🙂 If it would help you decide, you can take the Magoosh GMAT Diagnostic Test to find out how long to study for GMAT exams.

  • 3 Month GMAT Study Schedule for Beginners: Help! Math and verbal both scare the living bejeebers out of me! I need all the help and support I can get! Help!
  • 3 Month GMAT Study Schedule (Math Focused): I have a natural affinity with the verbal, but the math is far less intuitive for me. I would like to focus more there.
  • 3 Month GMAT Study Schedule (Verbal Focused): Me a math nerd. Me think all math easy. Me have big verbal problems. One day, me will talk good.
  • 3 Month GMAT Study Schedule for Advanced Students: I actually feel reasonably comfortable with math & verbal; if I took the test today, I’d get around 600-650. I’m interested in refining my understanding, and getting into the upper 700s region in the next twelve weeks.
FAQ: Should I follow this plan if I want to get a 700+ score?

This plan covers the full range of Magoosh lessons on all topics, from reading comprehension to word problems. However, this plan goes light on the verbal review and provides extra math review. If you follow this plan diligently, all the information you will need for an elite GMAT score will pass before your eyes. How well you do will depend on everything you bring: how quickly you learn, how deeply you remember, how well you assimilate and integrate, how astutely you discern connections, how diligent you are, how conscientious you are, and how dedicated you are. See this blog for more about getting the most out of a study plan.

  • Do you need to adapt this study schedule to meet your needs? Check out this blog post for adjustment tips!

 

FAQ: How should I follow this plan?

In this plan, you will spiral through the math concepts. You will see all the Magoosh math lessons twice. You will see math explained in the video explanations to questions. You will cover the concepts in a different order in the flashcards, and in yet another order in the McGraw-Hill book.

Each time you encounter a concept, note what you recall from the previous times and what you understand at a new level. Remember, understanding is never just a yes/no issue: there are always various stages of understanding. Always push yourself to understand any idea more deeply.

Notice, this is a twelve-week plan. Three calendar months are typically closer to 13 weeks, so if you actually have three calendar months to prepare for the GMAT, that’s great. If you have a wedding or a camping trip or something in the middle, you could just skip a few days, and do them later. Alternately, it would leave you more time for the concentrated review I recommend at the end of the twelve weeks.

Also, as much as possible, get enough sleep during this three month period. REM sleep plays an important role in encoding long term memory, and in an eight hour period of sleep, the last hour has the most REM.

If you are getting 7 hours/night instead of 8 hours/night, you are depriving your brain of one of its most powerful systems for learning and remembering. Caffeine and energy drinks will keep you feeling awake if you don’t get enough sleep, but they don’t do bupkis to replace the lost opportunity to encode more information into long term memory.

Study Materials

    GMAC’s The Official Guide for GMAT Review (OG) – The newest edition is the OG2021. If you are going to buy a new guide, get that one.
     
    If you happen to own the OG2020, OG2019, OG2018, OG2017, or even the previous OG2016, then it would be no problem using either of those with this study guide.

     

    • Don’t write in the official guide or any prep books. Do all your work on separate paper or on a computer. If you need to look at a problem again, it is still fresh and unmarked.

     

    • The code in the back of the OG will give you access to GMAC’s Integrated Reasoning website with 50 IR practice questions; you’ll also need these.

     

  1. Magoosh’s Premium plan
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  3. The Magoosh mobile app for your iPhone or Android
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  5. The Magoosh GMAT eBook
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  7. The Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards
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  9. The Magoosh GMAT Idiom Flashcards
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  11. McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: This book is perfect for a math-phobe! It goes through all the basics of math in a step-by-step. This will complement the Magoosh lessons, helping to build up your math confidence. (Don’t write in this book either!)
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  13. Any Manhattan GMAT Product that will give you access to their online CATs.

    For example, the Manhattan GMAT Self-Study Toolkit. These books are about the best material available in hard-copy print form. You get a lot of materials with this bundle, but you don’t have to use them all. Instead, you can also pick the volume you think would help you the most, whether it’s Foundations of Math, Foundations of Verbal, All the Quant, All the Verbal, or IR/AWA, and either use it as a reference book or work through it anywhere you can fit it into this plan—during extra time on various Day Sixes, for example.
     
    The primary reason you are getting this volume is to get the code in the inside back cover: that code will give you access to six MGMAT online GMAT CATs, one of which you will take later in this plan. (See the note below on “Practice Tests During This Plan.”)

    Because of this, you may also just want to purchase the “All the GMAT” set instead, if these books fit your needs better. The set includes just the three main volumes (Quant, Verbal, IR/AWA), for less than half the price. You also have the option of just purchasing the 6 MGMAT Practice GMAT CATs by themselves for $49.

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  15. A journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item)
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  17. The two online forums:
  18. These are great places to ask questions about anything GMAT related, or simply to check out the discussions and see how others are preparing.

  19. Outside reading material: Since you are already strong verbally, you may well already have a well-established habit of reading, and that’s great: please continue! Since you are planning to pursue a career in business, it would be good to stir some business writings into your reading. While you don’t need to be an expert, it’s important for the GMAT to have a general sense of the business world.
     
    The Wall Street Journal and the business section of sophisticated newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post provide excellent information about the business world. Force yourself to read articles discussing topics with which you are unfamiliar. Read periodicals, such as the Economist magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek; the Economist magazine is a particularly sophisticated source and it would be good to read this at least a few times a week. If you are not strong in science, Scientific American can be a wonderful source of practice. For more suggestions on what to read, see: GMAT Reading List.
     
    By the way, another advantage all the business newspapers and magazines is that they are replete with graphs and thus provide fertile ground for practicing graph reading for the Integrated Reasoning. If graphs have never been your thing, then every day find a business-related article with a graph, and force yourself to understand the “story” of the graph in the context of the article.
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  21. Magoosh’s Complete GMAT Guide: This comprehensive web-based guide to the GMAT gives you the quick but useful overview you need to understand this test. You’ll see how the GMAT is designed and scored, what skills it tests, how to find and use the best GMAT prep, and how to study for GMAT test sections.
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  23. A guide to GMAT Practice Test Resources: This page includes instructions on where to find good full-length GMAT practice tests, and how to take practice tests and incorporate them into your studies.

 

Practice Tests During This Plan:
This study plan is designed to accommodate a large number of practice tests, for students who feel that the repeated experience will best prepare them for the GMAT. Most of these take place in the second half of the plan. You have a choice to make about how many practice GMATs you want to take.

  • You will take one Magoosh practice test toward the beginning of the schedule. If you don’t foresee yourself taking more than 2-3 practice test after that, then get the MGMAT bundle of practice tests (or the books if you have time to use them), and take one on any Day Six. Fill the other Day Sixes with any studying you think would most benefit you, and take the two GMAT Prep tests at the end.
  • If you want take the maximum number of practice GMATs that this plan will accommodate, then there are two ways you can get all six of the MGMAT practice. One would be to buy the whole set of MGMAT books: I would recommend this if you imagine that you will have a great deal of extra time and would like to devote that time to studying more high-quality resources. A quicker and cheaper way to get the six MGMAT practice tests would be to pay $49 to buy the 6 MGMAT Practice GMAT CATs by themselves.

Abbreviations in the GMAT Quant Study Plan

  • OG = the GMAC Official Guide
  • PS = Problem Solving, the multiple-choice math questions
  • DS = Data Sufficiency math questions
  • RC = Reading Comprehension verbal question
  • SC = Sentence Correction verbal question
  • CR = Critical Reasoning verbal question
  • IR = Integrated Reasoning question, a separate section unto itself
  • AWA = the Analytical Writing Assessment, the essay-writing section

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week One

Week One, Day One
  1. Go to the GMAC website and read about the structure of the GMAT. Click on each subsection on that page, to read about the individual sections.
  2. Take the GMAT Diagnostic. When you are done, note your score, then check your answers. For questions you got right, glance at the solution, to make sure you got it right for the right reason. For questions you got wrong, study the solutions in detail, taking notes on anything unfamiliar.
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the first deck, the Algebra deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
Week One, Day Two
  1. For the Diagnostic test you took yesterday, go over the explanations. For questions you got right, simply skim the explanation to verify that you go the question right for the right reason. If you got the question wrong, read the explanation carefully, writing in your journal any math/verbal concept you didn’t know or understand, as well as anything about the question type that you didn’t understand. (If you got many questions wrong on the Diagnostic, you may have to spread this step out over the next few nights.)
  2. In the OG:
    • Read the introduction to the Problem Solving section, and do 16 PS
    • Read the introduction to the Reading Comprehension section, do 3 RC passage with all the associated questions

    Whenever you do OG questions, always check your answers when you are done with the batch, and read the explanation of anything you got wrong. Take notes in your journal on anything you need to remember from the solutions. Note that not all the OG explanations are of high quality, and some are not good at all. As an alternative, for all the questions in the OG, you can see much better explanations in our video solutions.

  3. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Intro to the GMAT: all ten videos
  4. In The Magoosh GMAT eBook, read:
    • from the beginning of the book up to, but not including, the AWA section
    • from the beginning of the Quantitative section up to, but not including, the DS section
    • from the beginning of the Verbal section up to, but not including, the CR section
  5. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the first deck, the Algebra deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  6. Read the blog article Overcome GMAT Anxiety.
Week One, Day Three
  1. In the OG, read the Math Review, the first twenty pages, taking notes in your journal on anything new, rusty, or unfamiliar.
  2. In the OG:
    • Read the introduction to the Data Sufficiency section, and do 16 DS questions
    • Read the introduction to the Critical Reasoning section, and do 16 CR questions
  3. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the first eight lesson videos
  4. NOTE: This plan focuses on the math lessons. Because you have identified yourself as someone strong in Verbal, we don’t assign any of the Verbal or AWA lessons. As you move through this plan, you may choose to watch some of these videos. Alternately, as you answer questions, if you discover concepts on which you are uncertain for a certain question, watch the related lessons for that question.

  5. In The Magoosh GMAT eBook, read:
    • DS to the end of the Quantitative Section
    • CR section to the end of the eBook
  6. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the first deck, the Algebra deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  7. Read the blog article Beating GMAT Stress.
Week One, Day Four
  1. In the OG, read the Math Review, up to the end of the Algebra section, taking notes in your journal on anything new, rusty, or unfamiliar.
  2. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  3. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 13 CR questions

    Whenever you do Magoosh questions, if you get a question wrong, watch the video right then, and take notes in your journal about what concepts tripped you up.

    NOTE: In all Magoosh practice, from the “Start a Practice Session” page, in Section choose the question type; for subjects, clear all, so that no subject is checked; for difficulty, choose “Adaptive;” and, at least at the beginning, select “Unanswered” questions.

    NOTE: When you do Magoosh practice questions, do not select individual topics that are familiar. When you learn a particular lesson, resist the urge to practice that material right there and then. This plan is based on the philosophy that you should see a random mix of topics every time you practice as you move through the OG, as you will on test day.
     
    Yes, this means you will make some mistakes in the beginning, especially with topics you haven’t learned thoroughly yet, but if you study those mistakes carefully, that will prime your mind for understanding these ideas more deeply when you get to them in the lessons. Remember that you are playing a “longer game”: the point is not instant success at the beginning, but building deeper understanding over time.

  4. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the first deck, the Algebra deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  5. Read the blog article The GMAT, Business School, and You: the Big Picture.
Week One, Day Five
  1. In the OG, read the Math Review, up to the end of the Geometry section, taking notes in your journal on anything new, rusty, or unfamiliar.
  2. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  3. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Read the introduction to the Sentence Correction section, and do 16 SC questions
  4. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the first deck, the Algebra deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  5. Read the blog article Zen Boot Camp for the GMAT.

    Because there are dozens of different ways one might choose to implement the recommendations of these four “stress reduction” blogs, this schedule does not itemize any specific tasks along these lines. But practicing some of these habit consistently will help you handle the anxiety of test day.

Week One, Day Six
  1. In the OG:
    • Finish reading the Math Review, taking notes in your journal on anything new, rusty, or unfamiliar.
    • Read the introduction to the AWA section; skim the question prompts to get a sense of the variety. Note: While GMAC has removed their list of AWA prompts from the 2020 and 2021 OG, you can still find the GMAT essay prompts on this MBA.com PDF.
  2. In The Magoosh GMAT eBook, read the AWA section.
  3. Read the following blogs about the AWA section:
  4. Now, you are going to write a practice essay. From the AWA Argument prompts in OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, pick one at random (or have someone pick it for you), and take 30 minutes to write an essay on the computer. (If you can turn off spellcheck & autocorrect, do so, as you will not have that feature on test day.)
     
    Now that you have this essay, what do you do with it? If you have a friend or mentor who is a gifted writer, see whether they would read the essay for you and critique it. Some folks hire a writing tutor specifically for this. If they are willing, you can show them the assessment criteria in the OG, and ask them to follow it. Alternately, you can upload your essay in the online forums and ask for feedback. See this blog for other options.
  5. In the Magoosh GMAT Idiom Flashcards Study the cards in the first deck, Basic I.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Two

Week Two, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos
    Math: the next eight lesson videos

    NOTE: As you finish with math lesson modules, you will see quizzes at the end of the module. Take each quiz, and if you don’t pass, keep restudying and retaking the quiz until you can pass it.

  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the second deck, the Fractions, Ratios, and Percents deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Skim the text on pp. 1-9. Much of this will be review of the basic structure of the GMAT Quant section. Read in detail whatever you would like to understand more deeply.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice; once again, see this blog article for suggestions of what to read. Reading is the very best way to develop instincts for the way writers use language in the business world. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Mental Math Practice: You should practice mental math every day. Practice adding & subtracting two (or three) digit number in your head every day. Practice all one-digit times one-digit products, and practice some one-digit times two-digit products in your head every day.
     
    In everyday life, look for opportunities to do mental math: compute tips at restaurants; figure out percents; calculate approximate gas mileage of your car; estimate distance, lengths, areas, and volumes. If a friend is willing, have your friend hold a calculator and quiz you on various calculations. As with any athletic training, the more your practice, the easier it will become.
Week Two, Day Two
  1. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  2. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Integrated Reasoning: the first eight lesson videos
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the second deck, the Fractions, Ratios, and Percents deck. Review cards from this and the previous deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read Ch. 4, starting on p. 11, and do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Two, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • Do 12 DS questions
    • Do 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the second deck, the Fractions, Ratios, and Percents deck. Review cards from this and the previous deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read Ch. 5, starting on p. 17, and do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Two, Day Four
  1. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 16 CR questions
  2. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Integrated Reasoning: the next seven lesson videos
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the second deck, the Fractions, Ratios, and Percents deck. Review cards from this and the previous deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In Ch. 6, read pp. 23-27. Do the associated problem. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Two, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the second deck, the Fractions, Ratios, and Percents deck. Review cards from this and the previous deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In Ch. 6, read pp. 27-32. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Two, Day Six
  1. Today, you are going to write another practice essay. From the Argument AWA prompts in the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, pick another at random (or have someone pick it for you), and take 30 minutes to write an essay on the computer. (If you can turn off spellcheck and autocorrect, do so, as you will not have that feature on test day.)
     
    Now that you have this essay, what do you do with it? If you have a friend or mentor who is a gifted writer, see whether they would read the essay for you and critique it. Some folks hire a writing tutor specifically for this. If they are willing, you can show them the assessment criteria in the OG, and ask them to follow it. Alternately, you can upload your essay in the online forms and ask for feedback.
  2. In the OG, read the Integrated Reasoning section.
  3. In The Magoosh GMAT eBook, read the IR section.
  4. Read the entire Magoosh IR eBook.
  5. In the Magoosh GMAT Idiom Flashcards. Study the cards in the second deck, Basic II. As time allows, review cards from the earlier Idiom deck.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Three

Week Three, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the third deck, the Geometry deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 35-42. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Three, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    • Math: the next three lesson videos
    • Integrated Reasoning: the last five lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the third deck, the Geometry deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 43-50. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Three, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 15 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the third deck, the Geometry deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 52-58. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Three, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the third deck, the Geometry deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 58-61. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Three, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the third deck, the Geometry deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 7 Number Properties Test, do #1-25, starting on p. 64. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Three, Day Six
  1. Go to GMAC’s official IR practice questions: Use the access code given in the back of the OG, logging in here. This site contains the online version of all the questions in the OG, in case you want to practice the identical questions online instead of on paper; in addition, the official IR practice questions live here. Uncheck everything else and do all the Multi-Source Reasoning questions, questions #1-18, setting yourself a 45 minute time limit. When you are done, go back and read carefully the full explanation for each question. Take notes on anything you need to remember.
  2. In the Magoosh product, do 15 IR questions.
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Idiom Flashcards. Study the cards in the third deck, Advanced I. As time allows, review cards from the earlier Idiom decks.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Four

Week Four, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the fourth deck, the Number Properties I deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 7 Number Properties Test, do #26-50, starting on p. 68. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Four, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fourth deck, the Number Properties I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Do the 10 GMAT Solved Problems, starting on p. 77. Do the 10 GMAT Practice Problems, starting on p. 80. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Four, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fourth deck, the Number Properties I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 85-88. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Four, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fourth deck, the Number Properties I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 89-94. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Four, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fourth deck, the Number Properties I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 95-99. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Four, Day Six
  1. Go back to GMAC’s official IR practice questions: Use the access code given in the back of the OG, logging in here. Once again, this site contains the online version of all the questions in the OG, in case you want to practice the identical questions online instead of on paper; in addition, the official IR practice questions live here. Uncheck everything else and do the remaining 38 IR questions, in three batches, with the following times: six Table Analysis (15 minutes); ten Graphics Interpretation (25 minutes); and sixteen Two-Part Analysis questions (40 minutes). When you are done, go back and read carefully the full explanation for each question. Take notes on anything you need to remember.
  2. In the Magoosh GMAT Idiom Flashcards, study the cards in the final deck, Advanced II. Do a thorough review of the cards from the earlier Idiom decks.
  3. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Five

Week Five, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the fifth deck, the Number Properties II deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 99-103. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Five, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fifth deck, the Number Properties II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 106-112. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Five, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fifth deck, the Number Properties II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 113-119. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Five, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • 16 DS questions
    • 16 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fifth deck, the Number Properties II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 121-127. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Five, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the fifth deck, the Number Properties II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 129-134. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Five, Day Six
  1. Using the code in the back of the MGMAT volume you bought, log into the MGMAT website and take the first online MGMAT CAT test.
     
    This software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find GMAT questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Six

Week Six, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the sixth deck, the Statistics and Probability deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 135-139. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Six, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the sixth deck, the Statistics and Probability deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 140-145. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Six, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the sixth deck, the Statistics and Probability deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 146-151. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Six, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the sixth deck, the Statistics and Probability deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 8 Arithmetic Computation Test, do #1-25, starting on p. 153. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Six, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the remaining lesson videos, which should be fewer than seven.
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the sixth deck, the Statistics and Probability deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 8 Arithmetic Computation Test, do #26-50, starting on p. 159. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Six, Day Six
  1. Take the next online MGMAT CAT test.
     
    Once again, this software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find MGMAT questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Seven

Week Seven, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the first eight lesson videos

    NOTE: Now that you have seen the entire library of Magoosh math lessons, you are going to watch them all again from the top. Notice which details you overlooked or forgot the first time through. Notice which concepts you understand more deeply on a second hearing. Notice any connections you can make between different math concepts in different parts of the curriculum.

  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the seventh deck, the Mixed Practice I deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Do the 10 GMAT Solved Problems, starting on p. 169. Do the 10 GMAT Practice Problems, starting on p. 172. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Seven, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the seventh deck, the Mixed Practice I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 177-180. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Seven, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the seventh deck, the Mixed Practice I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 180-186. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Seven, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the seventh deck, the Mixed Practice I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 187-194. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Seven, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the seventh deck, the Mixed Practice I deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 196-202. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Seven, Day Six
  1. Take the next online MGMAT CAT test.
     
    Once again, this software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find MGMAT questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Eight

Week Eight, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the eighth deck, the Mixed Practice II deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 204-209. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Eight, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Integrated Reasoning: the first eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eighth deck, the Mixed Practice II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 209-212. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eight, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eighth deck, the Mixed Practice II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 214-218. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eight, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Integrated Reasoning: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eighth deck, the Mixed Practice II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 219-223. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eight, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eighth deck, the Mixed Practice II deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 225-232. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eight, Day Six
  1. Take the next online MGMAT CAT test.
     
    Once again, this software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find MGMAT questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal

    NOTE: Look ahead at the upcoming Day Sixes and think about your test date. If Week 12, Day 6 is the day immediately before your real test, you don’t want to take a practice test then. I would recommend dropping the last MGMAT test, so you can fit two GMAT Prep tests in right before the end of the schedule. Just be thinking about all of this ahead of time, so you don’t have to make last-minute-panic changes.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Nine

Week Nine, Day One

NOTE: As you approach the end of the plan, the number of Magoosh questions remaining will be different for different folks, depending on how many quizzes you took. This could make a particular difference in math, if you took several quizzes multiple times.
 
If you took each quiz only once, you should finish most the Magoosh questions in the last week of the schedule, but if you took some quizzes multiple times you may run out of unanswered questions before the end of the schedule. If that’s the case, start answering questions you’ve seen before, especially ones that you already got wrong: that’s an excellent way to see whether you have learned from your mistakes.

  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the ninth deck, the Mixed Practice III deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 232-239. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Nine, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    • Math: the next three lesson videos
    • Integrated Reasoning: the last five lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 3 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the ninth deck, the Mixed Practice III deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 9 Algebra Test, do #1-25, starting on p. 240. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Nine, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the ninth deck, the Mixed Practice III deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 9 Algebra Test, do #26-50, starting on p. 246. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Nine, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 16 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the ninth deck, the Mixed Practice III deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Do the 10 GMAT Solved Problems, starting on p. 258. Do the 10 GMAT Practice Problems, starting on p. 261. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Nine, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the ninth deck, the Mixed Practice III deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 265-271. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Nine, Day Six
  1. Take the next online MGMAT CAT test.
     
    Once again, this software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find MGMAT questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Ten

Week Ten, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 3 RC passage with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the tenth deck, the Mixed Practice IV deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 271-276. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Ten, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the tenth deck, the Mixed Practice IV deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 277-282. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Ten, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 DS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the tenth deck, the Mixed Practice IV deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 283-289. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Ten, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 DS questions
    • Do 3* RC passages with all the associated questions

    *If you are using the OG2015 or OG13, do only 2 RC passages on this day.

  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the tenth deck, the Mixed Practice IV deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Read pp. 291-294. Do the associated problems. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Ten, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next eight lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the tenth deck, the Mixed Practice IV deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 10 Geometry Test, do #1-25, starting on p. 296. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Ten, Day Six
  1. Take the last online MGMAT CAT test.
     
    Once again, this software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find MGMAT questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Eleven

Week Eleven, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the eleventh deck, the Mixed Practice V deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the Ch. 10 Geometry Test, do #26-50, starting on p. 300. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Eleven, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 16 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eleventh deck, the Mixed Practice V deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Do the 10 GMAT Solved Problems, starting on p. 309. Do the 10 GMAT Practice Problems, starting on p. 312. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eleven, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do as many as 12 DS questions, or however many are left
    • Do 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eleventh deck, the Mixed Practice V deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Math Practice Test #1, do #1-18, starting on p. 317. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eleven, Day Four
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do the remaining DS questions
    • Do 16 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eleventh deck, the Mixed Practice V deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Math Practice Test #1, do #19-37, starting on p. 319. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eleven, Day Five
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 15 PS questions
    • 13 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the eleventh deck, the Mixed Practice V deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Math Practice Test #2, do #1-18, starting on p. 327. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Eleven, Day Six
  1. Go to the GMAC website and download the free GMAT Prep software.
     
    Take the first full-length GMAT on the GMAC software.

    This software also does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find GMAT Prep questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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GMAT Quant Study Plan: 3 Months: Week Twelve

Week Twelve, Day One
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 10 CR questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, start learning the cards in the last deck, the Mixed Practice VI deck. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Math Practice Test #2, do #19-37, starting on p. 329. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
  6. Remember this week to continue doing Mental Math Practice. See the description at Week Two, Day One.
Week Twelve, Day Two
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the next seven lesson videos
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 6 CR questions
    • Do 2 RC passages with all the associated questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the last deck, the Mixed Practice VI deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Integrated Reasoning Practice Set, do #1-3, starting on p. 337. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Twelve, Day Three
  1. Watch Magoosh lesson videos:
    Math: the last few lesson videos
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • 12 PS questions
    • 11 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the last deck, the Mixed Practice VI deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Integrated Reasoning Practice Set, do #4-7, starting on p. 341. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Twelve, Day Four
  1. Watch any seven Magoosh lesson videos an additional time.
  2. In the OG:
    • Do 16 PS questions
    • Do 6 CR questions
    • Do 12 SC questions
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the last deck, the Mixed Practice VI deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: In the GMAT Integrated Reasoning Practice Set, do #8-18, starting on p. 346. As soon as you are done, check your answers, taking notes on anything new or unfamiliar.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Twelve, Day Five
  1. Watch any seven Magoosh lesson videos an additional time.
  2. In the Magoosh product, do:
    • as many as 12 PS questions, or however many are left
    • as many as 6 SC questions, or however many are left
    • as many as 6 CR questions, or however many are left
  3. In the Magoosh GMAT Math Flashcards, continue learning the cards in the last deck, the Mixed Practice VI deck. Review cards from this and the previous decks. Spend 10-15 minutes with these cards.
  4. In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math and Integrated Reasoning: Review any section and problem set on which you think you need more practice.
  5. Spend at least 30 minutes on the outside reading of your choice. Pay attention to sentence structures. Pay attention to arguments. Pay attention to main ideas & roles of paragraphs.
Week Twelve, Day Six (if this is NOT the day before the real GMAT):
  1. Take the second full-length GMAT on the GMAC software.
     
    Once again, this software does not include an AWA question. To simulate a full GMAT, begin by selecting randomly a prompt from the back of the OG (pre-2020 editions) or this MBA.com PDF, and then take 30 minutes to write the essay in a word processing program. Then, take the rest of the GMAT using that software.

    Go through the entire solution after you are done, reading carefully the solutions of anything you go wrong. If you have questions that are not clarified by these solutions, you will often find GMAT Prep questions posted on the GMAT Club forum. Take notes in your journal on anything you got wrong and anything you need to remember. The essay you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback.

    As much as possible, try to mimic the GMAT conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real GMAT. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

  2. Magoosh Flashcards: Take some time to review any Idiom flashcards and any math flashcards that you haven’t mastered yet.

 
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After Week 12: Prepare for GMAT Test Day

At this point, if you have been following the schedule, you should have done just about every question in both Magoosh and in the OG at least once. For the days of this week, and remaining days of the test, keep up work on GMAT math and verbal. Some suggestions for what to do:

  • Go back to OG questions you did a while ago, and do them again. (This is why it was important not to write in the book)
  • Through selecting question type & difficulty on the “Dashboard”, do Magoosh problems over again, and see how you do a second time.
  • Keep watching for a second time 5 Magoosh lesson videos a day, on whatever topics you feel you need to review
  • Continue reviewing all the Magoosh flashcards.
  • Continue Mental Math Practice every day.
  • Go to the online forums, looking for challenging questions that folks are asking.
  • If you feel you need it, devote one more evening to writing two more practice essays, from the topics listed in the OG.
  • If you have a weekend day that is more than a couple days for the real GMAT, then take one final practice GMAT from the GMAT software, as on Week Twelve, Day Six.

Day before the test:

  • No GMAT preparation all day
  • Eat a large, healthy, leisurely dinner – no alcohol!
  • Go to bed earlier than usual.

Day of test:

  • ABSOLUTELY NO LAST MINUTE GMAT PREPARATION!
  • Eat a large breakfast, full of protein
  • Do relaxing, fun activities to pass time until the test

Bring to the test:

  • A liter of water
  • Healthy energy-packed snacks (nuts, protein bar, etc.)
  • On breaks, make sure to get up, move & stretch – moving & stretching the large muscles of the body (legs & torso) will get oxygen flowing throughout, which will help keep you awake and keep you thinking clearly.

Author

  • Mike MᶜGarry

    Mike served as a GMAT Expert at Magoosh, helping create hundreds of lesson videos and practice questions to help guide GMAT students to success. He was also featured as “member of the month” for over two years at GMAT Club. Mike holds an A.B. in Physics (graduating magna cum laude) and an M.T.S. in Religions of the World, both from Harvard. Beyond standardized testing, Mike has over 20 years of both private and public high school teaching experience specializing in math and physics. In his free time, Mike likes smashing foosballs into orbit, and despite having no obvious cranial deficiency, he insists on rooting for the NY Mets. Learn more about the GMAT through Mike’s Youtube video explanations and resources like What is a Good GMAT Score? and the GMAT Diagnostic Test.

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