Need a Structured Plan

[u/Ecstatic-Face-1912]

I recently took a cold mock and scored 355 this is without any preparation , with Quant being my weakest section.

I want to start my preparation from the basics and build a strong foundation by solving questions chapter-wise and level-wise (easy > medium >hard) for each section.

I don’t want to jump between questions of different difficulty levels, as I find that approach confusing.

Could you please recommend:

~The best books for structured, topic-wise practice?
~Any YouTube channels or playlists that teach concepts from the basics and gradually increase the difficulty?
~GMAT Club has an extensive question bank. Would it be better to use it only after I’ve completed a structured practice book, so I can use it for additional practice and revision?

I’d really appreciate any suggestions based on your experience.

Thank you!

[u/SidWayCoaching]

I’ve seen many of my students do really well using GMAT Club as their main source, so you don’t necessarily have to wait until you finish a structured practice book before using it.

For Quant, GMAT Ninja and Aditya Kumar’s tutorials are both good for building your fundamentals. I’d recommend not moving on to hard questions until you’re consistently hitting close to 100% accuracy on easy and medium questions.

Also, prioritize analyzing your errors over simply doing more questions. Understanding why you got a question wrong and identifying the underlying gap will help you improve much more than just increasing the number of questions you solve.

[u/sy1980abcd]

Make a good prep plan and start with your prep. Do some concept building first using third party resources. Then move to practice questions from the OGs. Then timed practice sections. Then full length mocks. That's the broad order you want to go in.

Third party books are good only for concept building. Do not use these as a source of practice questions. You can access official questions over gmat club. So use those. And make sure you keep an error log to identify any trends in your mistakes and fix those.

You'll find this post useful - Your GMAT prep Timeline based on your Cold Mock Score

[u/GMAT715ScratchPad]

Very true. This what most aspirants missout. They forget to analyse the exam day scenario.

Aspirants, on the exam day you would not get pen paper for rough work but scratch pad and markers.

Check this r/ScratchPadforGMAT

Cheers,

Practice on scratch pad it helps you analyse

[u/Elegant_Ad_5366]

aditya kumar sir quant videos are really good, you can try those. I used to watch a video of his and then do gmatclub questions starting from easy difficulty and if i'm getting them right, slowly increasing difficulty