<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>flashcards – GMAT</title> <atom:link href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/tag/flashcards/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat</link> <description>GMAT Prep Course, Best GMAT Class & Study Books | Manhattan Prep GMAT</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:05:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2</generator> <item> <title>GMAT Life Hacks</title> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-life-hacks/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Tyrrell]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:26:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[For Current Studiers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Prep]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Resources]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Strategies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Study Guide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How to Study]]></category> <category><![CDATA[error log]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flashcards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Life Hacks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Redo Calendar]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/?p=16006</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“Life hacks” is a weird term that’s only been around for the last decade, brought to us by purveyors of clickbait. Most life hacks involve some resourceful repurposing of something (e.g. Got a tomato? Hollow it out and now you have a perfect ashtray!) The term itself mystifies me—how are these clever, janky solutions anything […]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-life-hacks/">GMAT Life Hacks</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16032" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/gmat-life-hacks-patrick-tyrrell.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Life Hacks by Patrick Tyrrell" width="1200" height="628" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/gmat-life-hacks-patrick-tyrrell.png 1200w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/gmat-life-hacks-patrick-tyrrell-300x157.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/gmat-life-hacks-patrick-tyrrell-768x402.png 768w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/gmat-life-hacks-patrick-tyrrell-1024x536.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Life hacks” is a weird term that’s only been around for the last decade, brought to us by purveyors of clickbait. Most life hacks involve some resourceful repurposing of something (e.g. Got a tomato? Hollow it out and now you have a perfect ashtray!) The term itself mystifies me—how are these clever, janky solutions anything like hacking into a computer? I’ve never tried to penetrate the NSA’s mainframe, but I’m assuming it doesn’t involve saving up all your bottle tops in order to make a lower water usage toilet.</span><span id="more-16006"></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At any rate, I thought I’d share some techniques for GMAT studying—some GMAT life hacks, if you will—that may help you find it easier to cobble together around 10 hours of practice per week.</span></p> <h4><b>1. Schedule Your Studying in Advance</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Motivational psychology has found that one of the most powerful ways to get yourself to follow through on a task is to designate a specific date and time to do that task.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every year, I wait until April 15</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to file my taxes, even though I intend to do it sooner. It’s just not something I choose to make time for until I absolutely have to. Well, GMAT studying can often feel the same. We know we </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">should </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">be studying, but “America’s Got Talent” is making a persuasive counterargument that we should instead be just sitting here waiting to see what this 80-year-old guy is about to do with a vacuum cleaner and six aquariums full of goldfish.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If I were to set a calendar appointment on my phone for “Sunday, March 1, 10 a.m., Tax Return,” I am (according to some studies) way more likely to accomplish this task than if I only have the fuzzy deadline of “at some point.” Similarly, publicly declaring your intentions ratchets up the pressure for you to follow through on your intentions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was never good at mustering the courage to confess my feelings to the girls I had crushes on, but if I had told three of my friends, “I </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">will</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> call Natalie on Thursday night,” then the social pressure of knowing they’d ask me about it on Friday would force me to actually call her, rather than crumbling in fear like an insecure scone.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, Sunday night, bust out your calendar and your syllabus and make specific appointments for when you’re going to study during the week (and even better, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">what</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you’re going to do at each study session). This 10-15 minutes of plotting out your week makes you way more likely to follow through.</span></p> <h4><b>2. Redo Calendar</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve discussed this all-important habit in blogs past, so I’ll just reiterate it briefly here: According to learning science, the most efficient way to learn things is spaced repetition (you expose yourself to the thing you’re trying to learn at increasingly longer intervals).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delay … Decay … Replay.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Doing a problem three times in a row will provide a momentary sense of mastery, but it will be fleeting. Doing a problem three times over spaced intervals (today, 5 days later, 10 days after that) will encode that problem in your long-term memory.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s the same investment of time—in either case, we’re doing the problem three times—but the latter method yields much better results. So why aren’t we all taking advantage of the power of spaced repetition?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because it’s just hard to remember to when you should go back to which problems later! That’s why a redo calendar is so essential. When you do a GMAT problem, and it’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">doesn’t </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">feel like you already have an easy sense of mastery over that problem, you schedule two redo appointments on your redo calendar (make the first one 3-7 days later and the second one around a week after that).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your goal is to have 5-10 redo problems awaiting you on most days.</span></p> <h4><b>3. Make GMAT.WILEY.COM the Browser Tab You Visit When You Need a Mental Break from Work</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even while writing this blog post, I felt the need to take a two-minute break, dip on over to Facebook, check my Noties (notifications, for those of you not ‘in the know’), and write an attempt at a funny post.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before the Internet existed in its current fun form, we would walk down to the office kitchen and get more coffee, or we would flip through the page-a-day “Dilbert” calendar that sat next to our computer. We all need rewards/diversions when we’re at work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It will take some mental effort to fool yourself into thinking that doing one GMAT problem is a ‘treat,’ but these problems are all essentially mini puzzles, so if you can think to yourself, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ugh…I’m sick of looking at this spreadsheet…let me reward myself with one Sentence Correction problem</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, then you can replace your normal jaunt over to Instagram with a momentary GMAT siesta.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the inside of the cover of the Official Guide, there’s a cellophane panel that you rip open in order to reveal your special code that allows you to activate your gmat.wiley.com account. Once you set it up, you can go to that website and do GMAT problems online (you can’t request specific problems, but you can request what quantity / difficulty / type you’d like).</span></p> <h4><b>4. Play the ARITHMETIC Game When You Need a 2-Minute Mental Break</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Getting better at arithmetic is the “rising tide that lifts all ships” on GMAT Quant. Since we have to do a lot of arithmetic by hand, we want it to demand as little time and processing power as possible.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have to pause a bit to know what 75/5 is, then you need to build your arithmetic skills. One great website for doing so is </span><a href="http://arithmetic.zetamac.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://arithmetic.zetamac.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don’t know who built this little gem, but we owe her a debt of gratitude. You can tweak the length of the quiz or the difficulty of the numbers involved, but the default options are great. Try doing these calculations without pencil and paper—this will force your brain to stretch and develop a better number sense.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you see sums like 47 + 85, you make tradeoffs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think: 50 + 82<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">or<br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think: 42 + 90</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In both cases, I wanted to round a quantity up to be a multiple of 10. In the first case, I borrowed 3 from 85 so that I could raise 47 up to 50. In the second case, I borrowed 5 from 47 so that I could raise 85 up to 90.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you see differences like 114 – 57, you think about “counting up, from 57 to 114.” I go up </span><b>3</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to get from 57 to 60. I go up </span><b>50</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to get from 60 to 110. And then I go up </span><b>4</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to get from 110 to 114. So we went up 3 + 50 + 4.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you see products like 32 * 12, you break it into two calculations and then add them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">30 * 12 = 360</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2 * 12 = 24</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">So 32 * 12 = 384</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you see quotients like 456 / 8, you think “400 is the 50</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> multiple of 8.” Going up another 56 is going up another 7 multiples of 8. So 456 / 8 must be 57.</span></p> <h4><b>5. Make Your Own GMAT Podcast</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot of students with gnarly commutes bemoan the fact that so much of their day is wasted driving. It’s a shame there isn’t a GMAT podcast out there (note to self: create a GMAT podcast).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But in the meantime, create your own GMAT audio by using the voice recorder function on your phone. As you’re reading chapters of the strategy guide, or as you’re reviewing practice problems, whip out your voice recorder and record yourself saying the takeaways you’d otherwise write in your review log or saying the notes you’d otherwise write in a cheat sheet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you find a particular part of a strategy guide chapter resonates with you, like, “Oooh, I want to remember this,” then just record yourself reading that part of the chapter. If you’re trying to encode a takeaway from a problem you’re reviewing, record yourself saying that takeaway.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re thinking about writing a flashcard quiz for a given concept, record the flashcard quiz (just add enough of a pause between the question and the answer that you’ll give Future You a chance to answer. e.g. “When I’m doing an Inequalities problem, I should remember to think about [3 sec delay] NEGATIVE numbers!”).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once you have a bank of these voice recordings, then you can play them to yourself while you’re driving or on the bus/train/bike.</span></p> <h4><b>6. Reading Comp Photo Album</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trying to get better at Reading Comp? One skill we have to develop is just having a willing, eager spirit when it comes to reading the passages themselves. I often tell my students to cultivate the same unhurried reading pace they might have if they were at a nail salon getting a foot massage, or swinging in a hammock in a Corona Light commercial, or sitting on the porcelain throne in the bathroom.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re the sort of person who reads articles on your phone (probably 75% of them relate to Trump in some way), you already have this urge to use your phone to become more informed about the world.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s funnel that same disposition into reading Reading Comprehension ‘articles.’ Just go through the Official Guide one day and take pictures with your phone of each RC passage (it should only take you about 5 mins to do this).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any time you’re killing time on your phone and have the hankering to read up on the news of the world, go into your phone’s photos and open up a Reading Comp passage. Read it with the same mental attitude of, “I feel like reading about something interesting or informative.”</span></p> <h4><b>6. Flashcard Apps</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A less hacky way to use your phone as a study tool is download a flashcard app.</span></p> <p><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Manhattan Prep GMAT app</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has lots of mini-problems, lessons, quizzes, and flashcards in it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s also a free create-your-own flashcard app called Quizlet that a lot of people like. You can even search for and download other people’s flashcard sets, so that you don’t have to start from scratch. </span><a href="https://quizlet.com/74794224/gmat-4-life-son-flash-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s one I’ve made</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <h4><b>7. Shorter Sessions</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sometimes the biggest impediment to studying is just how hard it is to find a block of time or how hard it is to commit to sacrificing a large block of our disposable time to something onerous like studying.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good news! According to learning science, shorter sessions are more powerful than longer sessions (it’s easier for the brain to process and encode what it learns in smaller bursts of studying). You’d get more benefit out of 2 hours of studying if it were broken into four 30-minute sessions than if you worked for 2 hours straight, for example.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So really embrace that maxim and aim to create study opportunities in all the little nooks and crannies of your day:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">15 mins of studying over breakfast</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">15 mins of studying during lunch</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">25 mins of studying after work / before gym</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">10 mins of reading a GMAT blog or Roadmap article, rather than Twitter-surfing, before you plop your phone on your nightstand and submit to sweet Lady Slumber.</span></li> </ul> <p>I hope you find at least some of these suggestions useful. If you have any of your own that you’d like to share with the GMAT community, please let us know in the comments. Happy hacking. ?</p> <hr /> <p><b><i>Want some more GMAT tips from Patrick? Attend the first session of one of his </i></b><b><i><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/#instructor/270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upcoming GMAT courses</a> </i></b><b><i>absolutely free, no strings attached. Seriously.</i></b></p> <hr /> <p><em><strong><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-15335 size-thumbnail" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/03/patrick-tyrell-150x150.png" alt="patrick-tyrrell" width="150" height="150" /><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/patrick-tyrrell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrick Tyrrell</a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Los Angeles, California.</strong> He has a B.A. in philosophy, a 780 on the GMAT, and relentless enthusiasm for his work. In addition to teaching test prep since 2006, he’s also an avid songwriter/musician. <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/#instructor/270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out Patrick’s upcoming GMAT courses here!</a></em></p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-life-hacks/">GMAT Life Hacks</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>How to Study for the GMAT: The First Two Weeks (Part 1)</title> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chelsey Cooley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:26:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[For Current Studiers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Prep]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Resources]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Strategies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Study Guide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How to Study]]></category> <category><![CDATA[error log]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Two Weeks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flashcards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[how to study for the gmat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spaced Repetition]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/?p=15010</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free? We’re not kidding! Check out our upcoming courses here. Not sure where to start? Here’s how to handle the first two weeks of your GMAT journey. Day 1: Learn the format. If you’re just […]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1/">How to Study for the GMAT: The First Two Weeks (Part 1)</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15028" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/how-to-study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1-chelsey-cooley.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - How to Study for the GMAT: The First Two Weeks (Part 1) by Chelsey Cooley" width="1200" height="628" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/how-to-study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1-chelsey-cooley.png 1200w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/how-to-study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1-chelsey-cooley-300x157.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/how-to-study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1-chelsey-cooley-768x402.png 768w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/how-to-study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1-chelsey-cooley-1024x536.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></p> <p><b><i>Did you know that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free? We’re not kidding! </i></b><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>Check out our upcoming courses here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b></p> <hr /> <p><b><i></i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not sure where to start? Here’s how to handle the first two weeks of your GMAT journey. </span><span id="more-15010"></span></p> <h4><b>Day 1: Learn the format.</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re just getting started now, take a day to learn the problem types on the GMAT. There are descriptions of all of the problem types in the </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/official-guides-for-gmat/official-guide-for-gmat-review-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Official Guide to the GMAT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. There’s also a summary page </span><a href="https://www.mba.com/us/the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-format-timing.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then, read </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2013/06/03/what-the-gmat-really-tests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">this article</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to learn which skills the GMAT tests and which skills don’t really matter. </span></p> <h4><b>Day 2: Take a practice test.</b></h4> <p><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/free-gmat-practice-test/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s a link to a free practice GMAT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Set aside three hours and take the Quant and Verbal sections only. The point isn’t to get a great score! The point is to learn, through hands-on experience, what the test looks and feels like. </span></p> <h4><b>Day 3: Choose your study style.</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At this point, you could </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/complete-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sign up for a GMAT course</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. One huge advantage to the course is structure: you won’t have to make as many tough decisions about what to study and when to study it. If you take a course, you’ll be able to skip a lot of the planning described in this article. But if you go for self-study instead, you’ll want to have these resources:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/official-guides-for-gmat/official-guide-for-gmat-review-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Official Guide to the GMAT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (latest edition)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/book-packages/gmat-complete-strategy-guide-set/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manhattan Prep Strategy Guides</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you scored under the 40</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> percentile on Quant: </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/foundations-of-gmat-math/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundations of GMAT Math</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you scored under the 40</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> percentile on Verbal: </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/store/strategy-guides/foundations-of-verbal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundations of GMAT Verbal</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/on-demand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT Interact</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (interactive video lessons)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.mba.com/us/the-gmat-exam/prepare-for-the-gmat-exam/test-prep-materials/free-gmat-prep-software.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMATPrep</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (official GMAT software)</span></li> </ul> <h4><b>Day 4: Start an error log and a study calendar.</b></h4> <p><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2017/04/20/error-log-the-1-way-to-raise-your-gmat-score/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s how to create an error log</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. For your study calendar, plan out one week at a time, and be realistic. Build in plenty of time to review. A reasonable target for official problems is about 10-12 problems in an hour. You’ll spend 15-25 minutes doing the problem set, then take a quick break, then spend the rest of the hour reviewing. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What you put on your study calendar will depend on your priorities. In the next article in this series, I’ll share a couple of sample study sessions for your first two weeks. You can use any or all of them, in any order (as long as you regularly return to previous topics to review!). They’ll cover a few of the highest-value topics on the GMAT at a basic level, and will prepare you for your second practice test. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For now, I’ll leave you with one example study session: how can you effectively spend an hour or two with the Foundations of Math book? </span></p> <h4><b>Sample Session 1: Building the Foundations</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe your practice test showed you that you’ve forgotten a lot of the math basics. Here’s how to use the Foundations of GMAT Math book during a study session.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are two elements to the book: </span><b>chapters</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><b>end-of-chapter drills</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Suppose that you’re feeling confident about Arithmetic and awful about Fractions. Start your study session by flipping to the Arithmetic end-of-chapter drills and completing the odd-numbered problems. Take a quick break. Then, without looking at the right answers, double-check your work, trying to catch any errors on your own. If you end up getting almost all of the problems right, feel free to skip reading the chapter and move on. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In subjects you’re less confident about, or if you tried the end-of-chapter drills and they didn’t go well, read the Foundations of Math chapter with a stack of flashcards next to you. For every rule described in the chapter, write down the rule and one or two examples on the back of a flashcard. On the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">front</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the flashcard, describe </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">when</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you’d use the rule. For instance, here’s a flashcard you might create as you read the chapter on Fractions:</span></p> <p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15011" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/cc-59-image-1.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - How to Study for the GMAT: The First Two Weeks (Part 1) by Chelsey Cooley" width="647" height="132" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/cc-59-image-1.png 647w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/12/cc-59-image-1-300x61.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px" /></p> <p>When you finish the chapter, go through your flashcards twice. Clarify anything that you’re not sure about. Then, put your flashcards next to you and switch to a clean sheet of scratch paper. Work through the odd-numbered problems at the end of the chapter carefully. (Don’t do all of them—you’ll learn why later.)</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every time you get a problem wrong, or you aren’t sure how to approach a problem, check your flashcards. If you already made a flashcard for that type of problem, you now know that it’ll be an important one for you to review: set it aside in a separate pile for “hard-to-remember rules.” If you didn’t have a flashcard that related to the problem you missed, make one now. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finish your Foundations of Math study session by doing some quick arithmetic drills. I like to use the </span><a href="http://arithmetic.zetamac.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arithmetic Game</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—record your scores and see if you can improve each time. Or, try writing down the numbers from 1 to 100 and breaking each one down into its prime factors, or do a quick drill set or two from </span><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Khan Academy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <h4><b>Followup: Shoring Up Your Foundations</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t ever just study something once. If you put a Foundations of Math session on your calendar, add a quick followup session a couple of days later. Use it to look through your flashcards and do a few more of the end-of-chapter drill problems. (That’s why you only did the odd-numbered problems at first!) After a week or two, schedule some time to review </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">all</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of your flashcards. Your brain thrives on spaced repetition—coming back to an old topic after giving yourself a chance to partially forget it.</span></p> <h4><b>What’s Next?</b></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the next article in this series, I’ll share a few more sample study sessions for your first two weeks to three weeks of GMAT studies. Then, we’ll cover what happens during, and after, your second practice test. For now, if you’re just getting started, take some time to structure your studies! You’ll thank yourself for it later on, when you have a strong foundation and good study habits. ?</span></p> <hr /> <p><b><i>Want more guidance from our GMAT gurus? You can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free! We’re not kidding. </i></b><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>Check out our upcoming courses here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b></p> <hr /> <p><b><i><em><strong><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chelsey Cooley</a><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgre%2Fblog&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=CooleyBioGREBlog&utm_campaign=GRE%20Blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" title="Chelsey Cooley Manhattan Prep GRE Instructor" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2015/11/chelsey-cooley-150x150.jpg" alt="Chelsey Cooley Manhattan Prep GRE Instructor" width="150" height="150" /></a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Seattle, Washington.</strong> </em></i></b><i><em>Chelsey always followed her heart when it came to her education. Luckily, her heart led her straight to the perfect background for GMAT and GRE teaching: she has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and history, a master’s degree in linguistics, a 790 on the GMAT, and a perfect 170/170 on the GRE. </em></i><i><em><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/classes/#instructor/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out Chelsey’s upcoming GRE prep offerings here</a>.</em></i></p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/study-gmat-first-two-weeks-part-1/">How to Study for the GMAT: The First Two Weeks (Part 1)</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Pocket GMAT 2.0: New Updates are Now Available!</title> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/pocket-gmat-2-0-new-updates-are-now-available/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Manhattan Prep]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:39:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How to Study]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MGMAT News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Verbal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flashcards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[free gmat flashcards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gmat app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gmat flashcard app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT flashcards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gmat flashcards free]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gmat iphone app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gmat mobile app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iphone app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[math application]]></category> <category><![CDATA[math iphone app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pocket gmat app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quant iphone app]]></category> <category><![CDATA[study app]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/?p=7055</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>We are happy to announce that the latest version of our free GMAT app, Pocket GMAT Flashcards, is now available for download via the App store! New updates include: Back-end and usability fixes Content overhaul Updated for iOS7 Shiny new icon Containing over 350 GMAT quant flash cards, Pocket GMAT uses an adaptive algorithm developed by […]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/pocket-gmat-2-0-new-updates-are-now-available/">Pocket GMAT 2.0: New Updates are Now Available!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-7062" alt="AppIcon" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/03/appicon.png" width="280" height="280" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/03/appicon.png 500w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/03/appicon-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/03/appicon-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" />We are happy to announce that the latest version of our free GMAT app, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-gmat/id690677182">Pocket GMAT Flashcards</a>, is now available for download via the App store! New updates include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Back-end and usability fixes</strong></li> <li><strong>Content overhaul</strong></li> <li><strong>Updated for iOS7</strong></li> <li><strong>Shiny new icon</strong></li> </ul> <p>Containing over 350 GMAT quant flash cards, Pocket GMAT uses an adaptive algorithm developed by Manhattan Prep instructors to help you target cards you most need help with. Allowing you to strengthen your GMAT quantitative skills anywhere and at any time, the Pocket GMAT app is an indispensable tool for iPhone users.</p> <p>The app also now works better on iOS6 devices and we have fixed issues with scrolling and swiping, so overall navigation is smoother. We’ve also fixed content errata and made the images look better.</p> <p>Manhattan Prep has teamed up with <a href="//www.learningpod.com/">Learningpod </a>to make Pocket GMAT free for everyone! In addition to the adaptive algorithm, there is also a sequential practice mode that lets you flip through the cards however you want. You also have the ability to enter a Target Date to keep you on pace and track your progress. The flash cards are organized into “KeyRings” by topic and include algebra, number properties, word problems, geometry, fractions, decimals, and percents.</p> <p>We hope the new updates improve your studying experience, and if you’re as excited as we are about the revisions, please let us know in the review section of the App store. We use your feedback to make our study tools the best they can possibly be!</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/pocket-gmat-2-0-new-updates-are-now-available/">Pocket GMAT 2.0: New Updates are Now Available!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>