Official guide.

[GMAthings]

How important is the OFFICIAL GUIDE? Everybody and anybody could answer pls, i appreciate all input. Thanks all in advance.

[mdinerstein]

Hi GMAThings,

The GMAT Official Guides are extremely important to your GMAT studies because it contains questions that were at one point used on the real GMAT. Hence, practicing off of these questions is of the utmost important because no other source will provide you with better questions. With that said, however, it takes more than answering questions out of the Official Guide to be a success on test day. You need to develop a process that allows you to learn from the questions you get wrong as well as the ones you get right. You also need to take practice exams to measure your progress over a period of time and then use accompanying Assessment Reports to re-focus your studies to your relative weaknesses.

In short, while the Official Guides are an indispensable aspect of studying for the GMAT, they are not the sole resource that should be employed.

Best,

Michael Dinerstein
Marketing & Student Services Associate
michael@manhattangmat.com
800-576-4628
212-721-7400

[Gmathings]

Thanks Mike,
I actually took a Manhattan GMAT class, and learnt the fundamentals... Scored in the low low 600's on my CATS, but hardly paid attention to the OG except for the class homework.....my exam is in a month, thus, I figured special attenition to the OG at this point will be highly helpful to catapult me to a score of 600-700! Are my thoughts far off? And yes, I am paying attention to both answers I get right and wrong.

[StaceyKoprince]

Yes - the OG is a critically necessary component of your study. (As Mike said, it isn't sufficient - you need other stuff too - but you must use OG!)

So, definitely - if you haven't been using it much yet, now's the time to start.