Best SC Materials

[tjprime]

Dear all MGMAT instructors,

A kind inquiry - I have finished the following materials already:

1. MGMAT CAT
2. MGMAT SC Challenge pack (25 Qs)
3. OG 12
4. OG 10
5. VG 2

Q1: I would like to do more SC practices and happy to sign up private tutoring soon. Any recommendations on where I can find more good SC practices?

Q2: I understand that GMAT Prep is the old version of GMAT test. However, I can't find a full list of the questions, where can I find it?

Your advice will be much apprecaited as always.

Best regard,
TJ

[rkkarthik]

Tj,

In my humble opinion I think you have exhausted almost all key resources. Lets admit you are going to find a zillion more SC question samples, but you have completed the questions akin to the actual tests.

I would someday like to author a post with what you said;
its quite an achievement to test your knowledge and review your answers ,against the key, for all the books and material you have mentioned.

Why do you want to do more problems are you still performing under your expectations? If you have a specific weak area you can find questions and or subscribe to private tutoring, but otherwise I would focus on other areas, considering the knowledge requirement for this test is limitless.

Cheers
KK

[StaceyKoprince]

Agreed - there are a few more things you can try, but if you have completed all of those sources and are still looking for improvement, the first place to look is back at those questions you've already completed. If you aren't happy with your performance yet, then you haven't learned everything you could be learning from them. And doing new questions before you've learned everything you can from the old ones... well, that's really not an efficient use of your time.

Also, I noticed that your list consists solely of practice questions. You don't list any materials that actually teach you, comprehensively, what you need to know for SC on this test. It's very difficult (and highly inefficient!) to study for the test solely by doing practice questions and reviewing the results, even if you are reviewing in the absolute best way. Or possibly you have also used materials that teach you the concepts, but you just haven't listed them?

I don't normally recommend purchasing specific MGMAT materials because I have an obvious conflict of interest, but we're talking about SC and pretty much everybody agrees that our SC Strategy Guide is the best book on the market for SC, so I'll just say so. :) I've seen the results of surveys on websites not associated with MGMAT and our SC Strategy Guide always wins the polls by a wide margin. Do ask around if you like, of course.

Now, I also mentioned that you likely aren't getting everything that you need out of your study of your practice problems. Read the below article; it describes how to study practice problems (not how to DO them... how to STUDY them).

http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/a ... roblem.cfm

Then read this article, which demonstrates how to analyze one specific SC question:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/GMATprep-SC.cfm

If you haven't been doing that kind of analysis on the problems you already completed, you need to go back to them and really study them - most of your learning comes from your analysis after trying the problem in the first place.

You may also find this article valuable:
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/06/ ... on-problem