📘 How To Prepare For GMAT (Focus)
🧠 Phase 1: Concepts & Baseline
- Math refresh (ops, ratios, exponents); daily CR drills; RC mapping
- Intro to Data Sufficiency & DS traps
⏱️ Phase 2: Drills & Sectionals
- Timed sets (30–45 min); pacing palettes; guess strategies
- Error logging & targeted re-drills
📊 Phase 3: Full Mocks & Analysis
- 2–3 mocks per fortnight; analysis ≥ attempt time
- Refine review/edit usage and attempt order
✨ Tip: Practise decision checkpoints every 90–120 seconds; avoid time-sinks on knotty DI/CR sets.
- GMAT Quant: Core Arithmetic & Algebra Ladder
- GMAT Verbal: CR Argument Maps & RC Systems
- GMAT Data Insights: Multi-Source + Data Sufficiency
- Timing Templates & Palettes (Focus Edition)
- Mock Analysis: Build Your Error Log
📘 Quantitative Reasoning – Suggested Resources
- Foundational Math (fractions, ratios, exponents) — NCERT VI–X refresh
- Topic drills: arithmetic, algebra, word problems
- Advanced: inequalities, absolute value, number properties
📘 Verbal Reasoning – Suggested Resources
- Critical Reasoning frameworks (assumption, strengthen/weaken)
- Reading systems: passage mapping, tone & role questions
- Concise grammar and usage review for clarity
📘 Data Insights – Suggested Resources
- Data interpretation: tables, charts, scatter/summary
- Two-part analysis & data sufficiency thinking
- Spreadsheet-style reasoning & unit conversions
📘 General Prep – Suggested Resources
- Official Guides & Practice Packs (latest edition)
- 2–3 full mocks + deep analysis per fortnight
- Error log & targeted re-drills based on misses