GMAT Strategy

Critical Reasoning (CR) Preparation: Critical reasoning Bible by PowerScore, helps with all CR basics. Practice: All GMAT Official Guide (OG-12) questions alongside reading the Bible. Aim: Achieve accuracy greater than 85% in all practice sets. Sentence Correction (SC) Preparation: Manhattan SC 2007 edition, is an amazing book, one may call it the SC Bible as it prepares you exhaustively for SC. Practice: Read the GMAT Official Guide (OG-12) for SC & understand the concepts through Answer Key. Re-do all questions, if possible. Please pay significant attention to idioms as questions on them are tricky but relatively easy. Modifiers also require significant attention. Aim: Achieve accuracy greater than 85% in all practice sets. Important Tip: Dont spend equal time on all types of SC questions. Practice all of them initially & identify your weak areas. Focus your efforts more on these for more robust & efficient preparation.

Quantitative Preparation: GMAT Official Guide (OG-12) gives you a basic refresher on math concepts. Writing mocks from GMAT Prep software will help you understand the types of questions. Practice: Questions in GMAT exam are trickier than in OG & GMAT Prep. Practicing from CAT exam material will boost your preparation as difficulty level of questions is higher. Enough practice of these tough problems will get you into problem solving mind-set. Aim: Achieve accuracy greater than 85% in all practice sets. Integrated Reasoning (IR) New Overview: This is a section newly added to GMAT & consists of 12 questions. These questions have four different formats: two-part analysis, table analysis, graphics interpretation & multi-source reasoning. Integrated reasoning scores are reported from 1-8 with intervals of 1. This section is to test students ability to grasp different forms of data & combine them to answer questions. Preparation: Initially go through the GMAT prep questions & understand the solutions thoroughly. That will give you an idea on what is expected out of each format of questions. Practice: Lot of raw practice is required to improve speed & accuracy. Aim: Achieve accuracy greater than 85% in all practice sets. Important Tip: First try to understand basics underlying each format. Thereafter its pure reasoning. However at onset the questions may seem quite challenging & mind-boggling.

Reading Comprehension (RC) Preparation: Read editorials from NY Times or Washington Post online or Hindu editorial on daily basis. It helps in building your reading speed. It should be a daily exercise. Practice: Practice from all possible sources as a lot of raw practice is required to ace RCs. Practice at least 100 RCs before you start giving mocks. Aim: Read easier passage in 2-3 minutes & understand the basic gist of it. If the passage is really tough you can take up to 4 minutes. Do not rest until you achieve accuracy > 85 % in all practice sets. Important Tip: We also advice against jumping to questions first & then looking for answers in the paragraph. Reading essay first makes answering main point & summary of essay questions seem like a cakewalk.

Summary Plan
Get the basics right first & then practice at least 500 questions for each SC, CR & RC Give as many mocks as possible Take all the 6 Manhattan Mock tests

Recommended Books
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Critical reasoning Bible by PowerScore GMAT Official Guide (OG-12) for Sentence Correction Manhattan SC Guide latest edition Kaplan Mock & Practise Test for Quant & GMAT Official Guide (OG-12) (Relatively Easy) CAT Quant guides (More Robust Practice) Manhattan Mock Tests GMAT Prep Mock Tests

Some general GMAT tips:

Take as many mocks as possible. Start by taking a mock test at least once a fortnight & once a week towards the end Take at least 5 mocks along with AWA, perhaps the last five you take Improve on SC early in your preparation as it helps on multiple fronts. It helps to give more time on RC e.g. one RC may take 7 minutes, for reading & attempting 3 questions i.e. more than 2 minutes per question. With sufficient practice candidates can bring down the SC timing to less than 1.5 minutes per question & devote that extra time to RC questions.

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