An eight-week GMAT study plan built around timed retrieval
Move from diagnosis to section skills, mixed sets, and full simulations without passive review.
An eight-week plan works best when each week includes retrieval, timed work, and error correction. Adjust volume to your baseline and application deadline.
Weeks 1–2: diagnose and rebuild
Take a representative diagnostic. Map errors across Quantitative, Verbal, and Data Insights, then rebuild the two weakest foundations. Practise short sets and explain answers before reading solutions.
Weeks 3–5: section development
Rotate focused days across the three sections. Add one mixed set each week so skills remain retrievable outside a chapter label. Track accuracy and time by item family.
Weeks 6–7: timed integration
Complete 45-minute sections in different permitted orders. Practise break timing and the official review-and-edit feature. Analyse every uncertain answer, including correct guesses.
Week 8: simulate and taper
Run a final realistic simulation early enough to review it. In the last days, use brief recall, sleep consistently, and verify identification, appointment, test-centre or online-exam, rescheduling, and prohibited-item policies on mba.com.
Do not chase volume at the expense of correction. The useful unit is a mistake you can now solve independently.