Soooo......
Tomorrow
I'm gonna be taking my first GMAT practice test, hopefully I'll do good. I
tried out a few practice questions today and some of them are pretty tricky.
One number was so easy that I literally LOL-ed because I got it wrong. I was
thinking "Doh!". Then the image of Homer Simpson pop up in my head.
Just have to do my best!
- Assess my strengths and weaknesses, which I'll be able to do using that first practice test. And I'll be using another article from beatthegmat.com to guide me through the steps.
- Make up a schedule. Based on the stuff in my first post about the timeline I came up with, I'm giving myself: 16 weeks for primary studying, 4 weeks for comprehensive review and 4.5 weeks of buffer time (between the 1st official test and the second - just in case, but I plan to get my target score on the 1st try! Fingers crossed :D ).
- Get my study material - this might be tough since Indonesia isn't really the best place to look for these books, though, being in Jakarta I might get lucky and find something at one of the few foreign bookstores they have around here, including Kino Kuniya! In the mean time, I'll just leech of all the free resources online and see about ordering the books from Amazon.
- And finally, come up with a specific study plan. The article I mentioned on Post 1 gives a good break down on how one should do this. But basically, I need to pick a time, 2 hours a day, 6 days a week to study. I'll be using this blog to keep track of what I plan to study for the week, review how I did during each study session, what I need to do better, my overall progress, etc. Once I feel I've made good progress, at least 2-3 weeks, I should take another CAT (computer adaptive test), see how I do, then repeat the study plan and adjust it accordingly. Lather-rinse-repeat.
It
seems so far I'm on schedule, but maybe that's because I'm just getting
started. Haha. Hope I keep it up!
GMAT
Prep Plan for this week (week 0):
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Take 1st GMAT test
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Do a complete assessment on my test
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Continue gathering more resources online
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Hunt for GMAT books around here
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Try to come up with a study plan for week 1!
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