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GMAT Study Strategy Revised 4/25/05

Authors: Daveformba, Ursula, GMAT Club, Stephen Bolton, Erin

I’ve searched all over the internet and read all the major books on preparing for the GMAT.

The main thing that current GMAT prep books do well is to help identify what you’ll face on the

test. What they don’t do well is to help you to know how to actually study each type of question

and how to apply the strategies effectively. I’ve struggled to try and figure out how take a more

active posture in studying such that information is not only retained, but efficiency improved. I’m

tired of hearing, “just do a lot of problems.” That’s not useful. That was what people were telling

me. One person, who attained a 740 on the GMAT at 46 years of age, the first time she took the

test, stated how important it was to stay active and not be passive while studying. The point of

this whole guide is on how to become an active learner for the GMAT and avoid being passive.

(Read her Story here)

As I was studying, I realized that I had to lay down some very specific strategies for myself to

become more active in my learning process. This was because of a GMAT practice test I took

where I got a 600. I had studied the Quant quite a bit, but not the verbal. For verbal, I went

mostly off of what sounded right to me. I needed…. I wanted to come up with a way to approach

the rest of my studying more effectively because there seemed to be too much memorization or

gut reliance going on in my test taking skills. I knew that just going by what sounded right wasn’t

the best way approach the real GMAT.

This guide was created as a result of brutally asking myself specifics on how I could and would

improve in each area of the GMAT. How does one move from, “just do a lot of problems” or

“study hard” to “studying effectively” and most importantly…. Getting results? As this is a guide

that is being refined and added to, I hope you’ll join me in letting me know what you feel needs to

be re-worked or further explained by you or me to improve it. This will be of great benefit to you

and me as well as others that might need this in the near future. Over time, I’ve received

permission from several authors and teachers that have provided great strategy guidelines and

have inserted them into this document.

I’m not sure how you have discovered this GMAT study guide as I have not advertised it

anywhere. In any case, I say good for you because it shows that you’re doing your homework.

Hopefully, you weren’t just looking for the easy way out? Trust me, no matter how much you

look, you won’t find a study guide better than this on the internet. It’s not that I searched myself

and judged this guide to be the best. Rather, anyone who’s creating anything that’s even close is

trying to sell you something. I’m not. There’s no extended version of this guide that I sell. This is

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just me helping others. I do only ask for two things as you use this guide. 1) I have included links

to books and study guides where I do receive very small referral fees. Therefore, I ask that you

use the links in this document to purchase the GMAT books you’ll be buying used or new to help

support this web site you found this document on. (By the way, I have and always will only

suggest resources that have been their weight in gold. I don’t work for or receive kickbacks ever

and never well. As you progress through this document and the associated links, I think you’ll

see that I’ve put in a significant amount of time into putting this all together) 2) Provide me with

feedback on how to improve this document such as information you may want to submit to me.

For example, I have received some feedback that they would like to see more specifics on Math

prep. As this is a lot of work, I’m taking my time on that, but have included some information in

this latest revision.

I have compiled a web page of various resources to file my research and organize it for easy

browsing. You can find it at Future MBA Resources (FMR) . I have created one specific page

just for GMAT resources. This will be where you’ll find a wealth of resources and free tests to help

you on your journey. For example, I compiled a spreadsheet that lists the difficulty of every

question in the GMAT Official Guide from GMAC the creator of the test.

Dave

daveformba@gmail.com

My Blog

Erin

http://www.sentencecorrection.com/forums/index.php?act=Mail&CODE=00&MID=2

Dave’s Editorial Corner

As I’ve received quite a bit of e-mail asking me questions about the GMAT and managing

difficulties in progress, I’ve decided to add this new section that includes my responses.

GMAT Question Answered

Dear Dave,

Thank you very much for putting your GMAT strategy guide on the net, it's the best so far! I am

not a native speaker, I am struggling with my preparation. I feel like I am not progressing, can you

please advise something on this regard? I really appreicated it.

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Best Regards, "T"

Answer:

That’s a difficult question to answer. I’ll try my best.

I’m hoping that you’re doing well in Math. If this is not the case.. then the answer may be in how

you review and think through why you get the wrong answer and ESPECIALLY why you got the

right answer. You have to do your best to commit to daily reviews of the ones you got wrong from

the previous day. OG is the best book for practice questions. Review all the answers in it.

Moreover, you should review all the ones you’ve been getting wrong at least once a week. If you

keep getting them wrong.. then you’re approach has been to just solve the problem.. rather than

understand the concepts. If you're interested in which questions are difficult, medium or easy, you

can check out the spreadsheet that I pulled from GMAC to help you.

For English.. If you think about it… verbal is a math skill too. There are rules and guidelines

and many ways to approach the answer. You have to understand the basics. I started to do that

in my study guide. You have to make sure you memorize the basics. Then it comes down to

repetition and practice. Don’t just try to do as many problems as you can when it comes to

English. Understand not just why you got the question right.. buy exactly why the other choices

were poor. Don’t just say.. makes sense or sounds right. It's better to figure out which rule it broke

or which concept the wrong answer didn’t adhere too.

By the way… take a practice full exam… not just verbal or math… but a full exam at least 1

per week or every other week. Find any test you can get your hands on. It doesn’t matter if the

test is adaptive or not. And put yourself under the same time pressures of both the test taking

time and the length of breaks. This part is crucial.

What I described is the big picture approach for the GMAT. When it comes to discipline…

there are two things that I would suggest.

1) Take a class, but quit the class if the teacher sucks. They should blow your socks off

otherwise, it’s a waste of your time.

2) Whether you take the class or not… get to a place where you can focus and study with little or

no distractions. I study at universities myself. For example, while I wrote my Business School

application essays and studied for the GMAT, I went to Stanford at their 24 hour study center and

took some drinks and sandwiches everyday. It was not unusual for me to get there by 6pm and

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leave by 1am. Most Universities like Stanford don’t require a parking permit after 5pm weekdays

and no permit is required on the weekends. I called and e-mailed my friends that I wouldn’t be

around much because of my studies and I canceled a lot of appointments and activities in my life.

I gave myself permission once a week to go see a movie after taking a practice test because my

brain was fried anyway.

I'm definitely not an expert at the GMAT, but in my humble opinion... I've written what I believe

to be a good approach to studying for the GMAT. Not all ways work for everyone. I hope you find

what works the best for you. But trying various methods such as what I've outlined will hopefully

get you there.

Best wishes

The Hard Facts About Your GMAT Score

See how the chart below shows GMAT scores in 3 Tiers? I think people generally have a vague

notion that 3 tiers exists, but with no hard evidence like this chart... who's to say otherwise

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Here's a follow-up to the last chart. Again 3 tiers of applicants regarding GMAT scores.

Here's an interesting graph from Kellogg's 2004 entering class. This is a good GMAT question

possibility. If 5282 applied to the 2-year MBA class resulting in 469, what percentage of students

were admitted with the various GMAT brackets of scores as shown in the graph? When you do

the math (Taking into account that Kellogg admits 12% more than needed for instances where

the applicant chooses another school), you get the following: 640 or less GMAT = 1056 apps with

42 accepted at 4% acceptance. 650-690 GMAT = 1584 apps with 158 accepted at 10%

acceptance. 700-740 GMAT = 2059 apps with 252 accepted at 12.2% acceptance. 750-780

GMAT = 581 apps with 74 accepted at 12.7% acceptance. That means the 2004 class had 25%

of all students who scored 700 or more accepted. However, the actual student population is

actually 62% people who scored 700 or more. This is actually a great challenge and

encouragement as I thought it was much worse. So 38% of the class scored 690 or less? That's

cool. 700-740 is only 2% more likely to receive acceptance than those who had 650-690. Not

much of a difference. I think this is why we ought not to kill ourselves for not getting 700 and for

not killing our self if we do get 700 or more and don't get into a top Business School. That 2%

can't hurt though.

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Comments from a GMAT Instructor

Last year, I received some feedback from a 12 year veteran Princeton Review GMAT instructor.

Here are some comments he wrote in an e-mail to me that may be helpful for you.

What we do for high scoring students to make them get their scores up (in a classroom

setting) is to run classes that focus on ONE AREA. For instance, Statistics and GMAT Miscellany,

SC, CR, Data Sufficiency. People at or above the 600 level have to revamp their study plan.

Random info dump won't be effective anymore. If you can get a 600, then you basically know

most of the information there is on the test. What you are probably lacking is a systematic way of

using that information and an understanding of good GMAT strategy.

I told the instructor that I wanted to focus on probability a bit more. His reply on that was

as follows:

You are basing some of your plans and concerns on forums. In the last 5 "Test Recons" there

have been an average of 1.3 probability questions per test. 1.3 ... think of all the energy and time

dedicated to probability in the forums and think of what kind of wasted effort is poured into that

subject. Forums are 95% noise, 4% good intention, and 1% information. If you think of it that way

you will actually look at them with an entirely new eye and perhaps glean the little there is there to

be had. Test prep companies sometimes fall for the same sort of paranoia. They respond to the

concerns of their students and when those students' fears are being fed and influenced by the

forums a nasty little spiral starts to form. Ask how many people teaching the GMAT took the

GMAT in the last 6 months I think you will be shocked and dismayed. While I do not think that

someone has to take the test often to be a good teacher, a good teacher will take the test often to

be able to screen the noise.

The graphic below is part of how I assess student needs. Each red zone is a plateau. It is a score

range that is REALLY hard to break through. You are in the plateau that the course is designed to

get people to. Don't believe the nonsense out there. There is no super effective one-size-fits-all

solution to maximum GMAT improvement. Achieving and moving through each plateau has its

own unique set of needs and concerns.

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What you’ll find in this document

1) GMAT online forum resources and why they are helpful.

2) Study habits of 19 people who achieved 700+ GMAT scores.

3) How to track your progress and improve your review process

4) What kind of schedule should I use? What order should I go through the material?

5) Ongoing help resources – Daily e-mail questions

6) What GMAT resources should I use? In other words, what books and resources out there are

good and what sucks.

7) Should I use a Test Prep Company?

8) What kind of study schedule should I use?

9) A summary study guide for each section of the GMAT

10) A study guide on probability. There just aren’t any books out there that cover probability well.

GMAT online forum resources and why they are helpful

A couple of websites I found in my research were www.testmagic.com and

www.gmatclub.com. Both are tremendous resources because you can post questions there and

people will help you to understand why one answer is right and another is wrong. You should see

the generous amount of time people take to post responses. One thing I noticed was how a few

people who did well on the actual GMAT mentioned how the forum benefited them so much.

They went on to mention how they stayed active in the forums. A good forum is created when

people take the time to explain an answer and not to just simply try to guess at the answer or

write out a quick formula to show how you got the answer. How did you get the formula? What

led you to start out with certain steps? What concepts were used in your solution? Putting your

answer in this kind of context is helpful and most importantly forces the person who is posting the

answer to explain the answer through fact and theory. To write out the answer requires a

reasonable understanding of the concept being tested. To explain the answer to someone is

literally like being a teacher. Teaching a topic is the best method of learning. Now that’s active

learning! Here’s an example of a typical posting.

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