How to study for the GMAT

Before making a review plan, it is necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of the GMAT, including the content of the test, the form, the difficulty, the review materials and how to use them and so on.

One? Comprehensive understanding of the GMAT exam

Want to take the GMAT first of all to understand the GMAT in the end what? What is the format of the exam? What is the score composition? What time should I enroll and how? The first thing you need to do is to find out where the GMAT will be held. How much does it cost to prepare and so on

1. What is the GMAT

The GMAT is used by colleges and universities in the U.S., U.K., and Australia to assess the suitability of applicants for graduate study in business, economics, and management, and to decide whether to accept the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), which examines the candidate's logical analytical ability and It examines the candidate's logical analytical skills and business thinking.

2. GMAT test content

Test time: candidates *** have 3 hours and 30 minutes of test time, there will be two 8-minute breaks in the middle of the test, all a *** have nearly 4 hours of time, of which two 8-minute breaks can be selected according to the order of the test chosen, the three test order is shown in the following chart:

The examination Form: GMAT's test form for the machine test type of adaptive test, adaptive test means that at first the computer will give the medium difficulty of the question, if the candidate answered correctly, it will step by step to the higher difficulty of the question adjustment. Conversely, if the candidate does not answer the questions very well, the computer will choose easier exercises and adjust to the group of questions that best test the candidate's level in many repeated adaptations. As a result, the content of the test will be different for each candidate, while the candidate must answer every test question before moving on to the next one, and the test cannot be checked back.

Total score of 800 points, of which only Q and V can be counted in the total score, and V can be said to be the most difficult part of the V is divided into three sub-parts (SC Sentence Correction, CR Logical Reasoning, RC Reading Comprehension), the GMAT test is a built on a certain foundation of the English language focus on the examination of the student's thinking and logical ability of the test, compared to the GRE or IELTS TOEFL, vocabulary requirements are not high, but slightly more difficult than them. But the difficulty is slightly greater than them, to 700 points, for example: Q need to reach more than 50 points, V need to reach more than 34 points, and the correct rate of RC is at least 60%, CR is 70%, SC is 80%.

3. Exam Registration

GMAT registration is required on the official website mba.com, but can also be reported on the website of the Chinese Ministry of Education's Examination Center, which supports online payment in RMB by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) or China Merchants Bank (CMB), and can also be paid by VISA. Visa can also be used for payment, a candidate can only take the test five times in a natural year and eight times in a lifetime.

The second? Preparation of preparation materials

A good set of preparation materials for the candidates can be said to be the most important, the following Chengdu Shenyou GMAT for the different exam content to prepare a detailed preparation materials recommended:

1.Grammar SC: "Manhattan Grammar", "Ron God", "Bai Yong Grammar"

2.Reading RC: "Yang Peng long difficult sentences", OG Reading", "Xiaoan Reading Method"

3. Logic CR: "gre & gmat reading difficult sentences tutorial"

4. Math Q: "Chen Xiangdong GMAT math high score directional breakthrough"

5. Essay AW: "gmat official question bank model essay essence", "Essay Seven Deadly Sins", "IR 50 questions"

6. Vocabulary IR: "Golden IR book" "IR new 50 questions"

8. Model test: Prep crack, Manhattan, Shenyou official model test platform

Three, how to prepare for the test

1. The GMAT's vocabulary requirements are not as high as the GRE's, so the initial time spent may be a little less, even out the time to the middle. You can read "Bible" and "Red Book" to memorize the high-frequency vocabulary of GMAT, and secondly, it is recommended to read the OG, which is the official guide material of GMAT, and it can be a good way to speculate on the thoughts of the questioner, and it has a better authority compared to other materials, which contains the basic knowledge points of GMAT, and it is a good way to fine-tune the questions and understand the knowledge points of each GMAT test.

2. Midterm: Repeat the brush OG, carefully analyze the first time when the wrong questions, checking for gaps and make up for them, to achieve excellence. Secondly, you can go to Prep crack or Shenyou official model test platform to do simulation questions to understand their own speed and habit of doing questions, so as to determine their own test day to do the order of questions, but also to the CD forum to learn more GMAT test friends of the success of the experience. Focus on strengthening the language v part, because this is the most difficult in the GMAT, need to layer by layer to overcome the difficulty of the wrong point. For math, we recommend GWD, which is a highly recommended resource book for past test takers.

3. Late: This is the final stage of the sprint, on the basis of the previous focus on ir and aw practice, analysis and summarization of the problems that existed in front of the more practice and more model exams to overcome their weaknesses, to improve the speed of the problem, to achieve the knowledge and logical relationship between the combing can be a reflection of the three. This stage of the recommended "gmat official question bank model essay lecture" "essay seven sins" and other books.

Four, reasonable plan allocation time

A detailed and reasonable study plan can better plan the GMAT daily learning goals, more efficient and effective review GMAT, and everyone according to their own learning situation time arrangements are not the same, coupled with their own laziness and procrastination problems, many candidates do not know how to develop a study plan suitable for their own situation. The program, or the development of a metaphysical plan but it is difficult to implement, but delayed and wasted a lot of time.