For anyone studying and working full time in a demanding job, how do you manage the gregmat study plans?
I was thinking, what if I watch all the necessary videos for the upcoming week during the weekend and spend time during the week days doing the actual homework & review day by day? Was thinking that watching videos over the weekend would take up most of the weekend time and on the weekdays I could spend ~2-3 hours with the problems and review.
Hi!! I am working full time and doing the 2 month study plan, with a planned test date in mid-June. There are a few different ways I remixed the plan to fit my personal needs better:
I knew going into this that I was going to have a much stronger baseline verbal than quant score (I took the PP1 before starting Gregmat and got a 151Q/160V, but I also just had a hunch based on past academic performance—plus I was a Lit major), so I’m focusing ~90% of my study time on quant accordingly. Most of the programs I’m applying to have an average verbal score around what I got on the PP1, so I think it makes more sense to devote the limited time I have to the area where I need a score improvement versus where it would be nice to have a score improvement.
Once I realized I should focus on quant, I physically rewrote the 2 month plan in my personal calendar to fit around my own schedule. I’m the type of person where if I’m following a daily plan and something happens that messes up the schedule, I really struggle to get back on track. For instance, I’ve built in at least one “break day” per week and then redistributed the workload accordingly so that my plan won’t be too disrupted if I need a mental break or something unforeseen pops up that prevents me from studying one day. Similarly, I also included any known commitments in the plan so that they’re also accounted for ahead of time. This does mean that there’s a little bit more work to do on the other 5–6 nights per week, but it gives me more peace of mind—and if I’m able to study on those open dates and get ahead, then it’s still a “win” in my book.
This is more of an experimental strategy on my part and might come back to bite me later, but I’m trying to save a significant portion of the practice videos until closer to the test day. I have never found math to be intuitive, so I’m really focused on trying to slow down and understand why fundamental concepts work rather than rote memorization that will fall out of my brain come test day. Then a month from now if I feel like I’m still fairly weak on a specific element, I’ll have hoarded a bunch of targeted problems to really nail it down.
I’m only on week two of the plan and have never taken the actual GRE before so we’ll see how well this pans out, but I hope this helps!
I think this is how really everybody should move toward it. Not by just simply following and doing whatever is written in there, individuals should set aside an effort to perceive what sort of circumstance they are in and afterward tweak the plan as per their requirements.