Study Guide - Stage 2

Strengthening Areas of Weaknesses

From this point on, your learning activities will be guided by your areas of weakness.  Below, you will find a variety of suggested activities to strengthen any weaknesses.

Learning from your GMAT Prep Now Improvement Chart

Review your Improvement Chart to identify areas of weakness (e.g., Geometry, Sentence Correction etc.). For each area of weakness:

Learning from your Full-Length Practice Tests

You can take the official GMATPrep practice tests up to 3 times each.  Just remember that, when you see a repeated question, wait about 2 minutes before answering it.  Otherwise your score will be inflated.

Analyzing your Practice Tests

When analyzing your practice tests, there are four types of weakness to watch out for:

1. Specific quantitative skills/concepts (e.g., algebra, standard deviation, etc.)

2. Specific Verbal skills/concepts (e.g., verb tenses, assumption CR questions, etc.)

3. Test-taking skills (time management, endurance, anxiety etc.)

4. Silly mistakes

For the first two weaknesses, the fix is straightforward: find the related lesson(s), learn the concept/skill, and answer practice questions to strengthen that weakness.

If your test-taking skills are the issue, then work on those. For example, you'll find videos on time management and anxiety reduction in the General Strategies module.

Finally, if silly mistakes are hurting your score, then you must identify and categorize these mistakes so that, during tests, you can easily spot situations in which you are prone to errors.  For more on this, read the article, Avoiding Silly Misteaks on the GMAT.

Additional Resources

If you need additional materials to help you prepare, consider the following options:

Full-length Practice Tests

• The Official GMATPrep Exam Pack #1 (paid), featuring 2 full-length practice tests
• The Official GMATPrep Exam Pack #2 (paid), featuring 2 full-length practice tests
• More full-length tests (free and paid)

Math

• The Official Guide for Quantitative Review
• GMAT Focus (a tool from the test-makers for evaluating your quantitative proficiency)

Verbal

• The Official Guide for Verbal Review

Integrated Reasoning

• The Integrated Reasoning Prep Tool, featuring 48 never-before-seen Integrated Reasoning questions and full solutions
• More IR practice questions from Veritas Prep