Study Plan After a long Puse

[alyahya99]

Good Day,

I would really appreciate if you can suggests a study plan for me.

The issue is that I started preparing for the GMAT and i believe that i have spent a good amount of time studying. After i completed the study material i stopped for almost 2 months.

I haven't been doing any GMAT related practice or study during that period. Now, i feel lost and i don't know from where to start? I'm having difficulty putting a plan together.

What makes the problem even worse is that i haven't been utilizing any of the CAT's since i started the course, which is another bad act from my side.

I would like to thank all of you in advance for helping and advising me. I wish you all the best of luck.

[alyahya99]

I would appreciate receiving a feedback.

[StaceyKoprince]

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You can use this to help you develop a study plan:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... an-part-1/
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... an-part-2/

After you've developed your plan, please feel free to return here to share it with us. We'll tell you what we think and where we disagree. :)

You mention that you haven't been using the CATs. As you'll discover when reading the above articles, this is step #1. You'll need to take a CAT in order to develop your study plan and you'll need to share your analysis of that CAT here in order for us to help you decide whether the study plan you develop is appropriate - it all depends on your individual strengths and weaknesses.

Make sure to take the CAT under 100% official conditions, including essay, IR, and length of breaks (8 minutes). Good luck!

[alyahya99]

Thank you for your time and advice.
I took a CAT exam and scored 540. I'm very disappointed because i'm shooting to for 700.
Before I share my CAT analysis, I would like to share with you my preparation history,,,,I started preparing for the GMAT on May and covered all the material by July. However, during the month of August I have not done any GMAT work. For this reason I think the score isn’t a real reflection of my knowledge specially that I felt upset during the test because I realized that stopping cause me to lose my base and forgot some rules and formulas.

Do you think I have to review the material again? If yes, How much time should I spend doing that?

Here is my Assessment Summary .

I appreciate your feedback and suggested time frame and resources needed to get to my goal of 700.

Thanks

[StaceyKoprince]

You've given me data, but you haven't actually given me your analysis - your analysis involves figuring out what you think the data means and what you plan to do as a result. The reason I'm making you do this, rather than doing it for you, is that if you can't learn to do this yourself, then it's unlikely you will ultimately hit 700+. You need to know how to figure out what this stuff means and what to do about it for yourself, because you're going to need to be doing this kind of analysis very frequently - multiple times a week, with smaller sets of data. (Alternatively, you could hire a private tutor to help you do the analysis with that kind of frequency, but you would spend a LOT of money doing so!)

There are a few very obvious patterns in the data you've shown me. What are they? And what should you do about them?

Read this too:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... ice-tests/

The data that you showed me is only one part of the whole. Keep going with the analysis, as described in the above article.

And these:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... to-win-it/
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... nt-part-1/

You do not necessarily need to review all of the books, no - in fact, that would be a very inefficient way to study. You need to figure out what you need to review based upon your analysis of your recent test results - again, another reason why this analysis is so important.