Taking the GMAT

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For me, one month was sufficient to get 730 (50 on quant and 39 on verbal) and 5.0 on AWA.

I focused on what I was weak in, the sentence correction. The other sections didn't give me issues. I'm strong in quant. Critical reading/reading comprehension were just understanding the reading passages given and extracting the relevent info. I look at studying for the essays. I figured my score there would depend on the topic, whether I knew anything about it. Just brush up on the proper essay formats you were taught in high school (eg intro, argument 1, argument 2, ... conclusion). The only time I was pressured for time was on the essays. I had over 20 minutes left in the quant/verbal sections.

I used the Princeton Review and the official GMAT guide. I found some quant questions on the exam trickier than the ones in the two books. Kaplan's suppose to feature harder questions, but I didn't use it.

Good luck.
 
About the same as Ziggy

Registered for GMAT (so I knew I had to get ready for it)
Did a couple of practice tests (one of them with Kaplan - free session), figured out where my weaknesses were, and focused on those.
I didn't spend any money on books (simply went to the local library and got the most recent Kaplan and Princeton Review), got a hold of some practice GMAT and GRE tests, and spent about a couple of hours/day for about 3 weeks.

Did not focus on the essays much - since in my opinion they do not count for much (was familiar with the format and logic though). Instead, I focused primarily on sentence correction/reading comprehension, and reviewed some concepts from quants.

Scored 710 (if it matters), and 5.0 (I think) on AWA
 
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