What’s one thing you wish you knew when you started studying for the GMAT?

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Don't beat yourself up if you can't hit your target score after months of studying

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Depends a lot on how much time you have honestly. It mostly becomes a question of how much of that effort would be better spent on other things. I spent 2 years prepping on and off, and I think it really paid off (770 in a competitive year still got me scholarship money at M7 even coming from a no name firm)

Practice tests are more effective than doing sets of practice problems (once you've worked up to proficiency in all areas)

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Dont brute force practice problems..focus on your weakpoints

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Second this. This is incredibly important. There’s a large but finite number of questions types. I’d strongly recommend trying to figure out which are your weakest and attacking those first

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Don’t “take a break.” You lose a ton of momentum and motivation if you take some time off from studying (e.g., between test #1 and starting studying for test #2). Keep yourself in gear a focused for a few more weeks and take test #2, then be done with it for good

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Wish I had done diagnostics for GRE and GMAT...

Manhattan Prep is the best gmat prep out there. They have an online program. Good luck!

Dont take 3 different courses at the same time.

Consider GRE if GMAT doesn’t work out

Prioritize learning the concepts and how to apply them. Build your comfort level up before working on timing and test taking strategy. Also, big changes in your score take time. I studied for ~10 months in total off and on.

At least for GMAT it’s almost as much about learning to take the test (timing, skipping strategies, etc) than the actual math.

Consider the GRE

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