Study plan ยท 4 weeks
The 4-week plan: a controlled sprint
Four weeks is enough when your baseline is already within striking distance of your goal, roughly 60 points on the GMAT scale or 8 points per section on the GRE. The plan assumes about 15 hours per week and cuts everything that does not move your score.
This sprint is the compressed sibling of the standard plans on GMAT GRE Prep. If you have eight weeks, use the 8-week planinstead; it produces bigger gains for the same total hours.
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Be honest about your baseline. A diagnostic 100+ GMAT points below goal will not close in four weeks of any plan. Rescheduling is cheaper than a wasted attempt.
Week by week
| Week | Focus | Key tasks |
|---|---|---|
| W1 | Diagnose and target | Day 1: official practice test cold (GMAT orGRE logistics). Days 2 to 7: review every miss, build the error log, and drill your weakest section with thepractice bank, 15 questions a day. Milestone: a ranked list of your three weakest question types. |
| W2 | Repair the leaks | Attack the three weak types directly: read the matching section guides (quant, verbal,Data Insights, orAWA) and drill 20 questions daily, untimed but annotated. GRE students add daily vocabulary. Milestone: 80% accuracy on your former weak types. |
| W3 | Speed under pressure | Timed mixed sets every day: 10 questions at exam pace, reviewed same-day. Two full sections back to back on the weekend. Second official practice test at week's end. Milestone: within 30 points (GMAT) or 5 points per section (GRE) of goal. |
| W4 | Rehearse and taper | Third official practice test early in the week, full dress rehearsal. Then taper: error log review, formula sheet, light drills only. Nothing new in the final 48 hours. Sleep on schedule. |
What gets cut, and what never does
- Cut: re-reading topics you already score well on, long video courses, making perfect notes.
- Keep: the error log, same-day review of every timed set, and sleep. In a four-week window, consolidation is where the points come from.
- One sitting per day maximum. Two-a-day sessions in week 3 feel productive and mostly produce fatigue errors you then misread as content gaps.
Session template for weeks 2 and 3
- Warm up: 5 questions from a topic you are good at (5 to 8 minutes).
- Main set: 10 to 15 questions on the day's target type, timed in week 3 (20 to 30 minutes).
- Review: every question gets a one-line takeaway in the error log (20 to 30 minutes).
- Close: 10 minutes of vocabulary (GRE) or mental arithmetic (GMAT).