Weekend Updates : In short Very Productive

My estimate was right on the money. I suck at Verbal, Compared to my Math. Not a surprise for a Foreigner, who did all his schooling in Malayalam. In short I am very much at 90% in Math. With a push I can get it to 99%. But I am still at a 75% as far as verbal is concerned. The theory got a confirmation after I took my Kaplan, Practice quiz (It is a not timed, 38 Qn Exam with Math (PD,DS), Verbal (CR, SC, RC)). Approximately 7 Questions per section. A huge surprise was that I got all but one of SC correct. CR & RC I was wrong Twice. Well it is true that I got a few wrong on the DS. I am not very worried about that.

Some Common abbreviations that bowled me first few weeks :-

DS - Data Sufficiency
PS - Problem Solving
CR - Critical Reasoning
RC - Reading Comprehension
SC - Sentence Correction
OG - Official Guide GMAT
PR - Princeton Review
800 - Kaplan 800


Today morning I got up to read. A friend emailed a beautiful interview with Sachin Tendulkar. That got the better of my time. All I did was, I did some serious planning with all the materials I got. Now since I know what is there in each of these books I should chart out the study plan. I will publish my plan in one of the future posts. The Outline is to dedicate first 4 Weeks for Verbal. Each Week I will be attacking one Principal section.

Week 1 : CR

Start With PR, Write Good Notes

Move On to Kaplan, Refine add to the Notes

Move On to Manhattan, Refine add to the Notes

Do 40 Qns, Timed Each Day starting from (Day 4) Taking either From Kaplan or OG

Depending on the performance on 40 Question attacks Move on to CR on Kap-800

Take a 120 Qn Mix on the Corresponding Weekend as a Finale

I am not going to start taking any Full tests till 4th Week of my study. This will be the general approach