How many hours / weeks did you study for the gmat?

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0 for verbal, 92nd percentile
Too many to count for math, still sucked at it

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6 weeks an hour a day with 2 weekends where I did practice tests

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Took a year and multiple attempts (but think 3-4 months is good time frame)

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24 hours total; 10 days.

Avg about 15 hours per week for 12 weeks. Started off in mid 600s on MGMAT practice tests, ended with a score of 720 then 770 (scored 740 and 770 on my official practices)

It is a very study-able test, especially the quant and sentence correction

Maybe 3 hours a week for 8 weeks? I stressed verbal since it's a global test, so 99% percentile verbal and 85% Quant for a 99% overall score

3 days

2 months:

~30 min / day M-F
4 hours each weekend day

760 / 49Q / 46V

Probably could’ve done a bit better with another month of study it’s diminishing returns.

How’d you break it out by topic? I am spending maybe 85% of my time on math

4 hours a week roughly

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