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Build a GMAT study schedule for your exam date.

Enter your exam date + weekly study hours and get a week-by-week plan. Optional: paste in rough section accuracies (from a mock or the free diagnostic) and the schedule re-prioritises around your weakest section.

Typical working professional: 7.5 (90 min/day × 5 days/wk).

Total weeks

12

Full plan

Total hours

96

@ 8 hrs/wk

Weakest section

Take the diagnostic

Generic schedule (no accuracy data)

Take the free 10-question diagnostic to identify your weakest section, then re-generate this schedule with the section accuracies for a real plan.

Week 1May 8 – May 14
Diagnostic + foundation

Diagnose first, then start reading the section you're weakest at.

  • Take the 30-question stratified diagnostic (~35 min).
  • Read your report — identify weakest section + two weakest topics.
  • Set up the error log template before any practice.
Week 2May 15 – May 21
Foundational reading

Refresh fundamentals on your weakest section. No drilling yet.

  • One chapter per day on the weakest section.
  • Light recall checks at the end of each reading; no timed sets.
  • End of week: write your first weekly outcome statement.
Week 3May 22 – May 28
Weakest section deep work

Drill weakest section (TBD by diagnostic) topics, timed, with full review after every set.

  • 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by diagnostic).
  • 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
Week 4May 29 – Jun 4
Weakest section deep work

Drill weakest section (TBD by diagnostic) topics, timed, with full review after every set.

  • 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by diagnostic).
  • 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
Week 5Jun 5 – Jun 11
Weakest section deep work

Drill weakest section (TBD by diagnostic) topics, timed, with full review after every set.

  • 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by diagnostic).
  • 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
Week 6Jun 12 – Jun 18
Weakest section deep work

Drill weakest section (TBD by diagnostic) topics, timed, with full review after every set.

  • 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by diagnostic).
  • 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
  • End-of-block: short timed mock on this section.
Week 7Jun 19 – Jun 25
Second-weakest section

Drill second-weakest section (TBD by diagnostic) topics. Maintain weekly maintenance on the first.

  • 5 hours on second-weakest section (TBD by diagnostic).
  • 2 hours of maintenance on the first weakest.
  • Re-sort the error log mid-week. Confirm patterns are shifting.
Week 8Jun 26 – Jul 2
Second-weakest section

Drill second-weakest section (TBD by diagnostic) topics. Maintain weekly maintenance on the first.

  • 5 hours on second-weakest section (TBD by diagnostic).
  • 2 hours of maintenance on the first weakest.
  • Re-sort the error log mid-week. Confirm patterns are shifting.
Week 9Jul 3 – Jul 9
Mixed practice + error review

Cross-section mixed sets, timed. Heavy review-to-practice ratio.

  • Daily 30-question mixed set, timed (~4 hrs/wk total).
  • Review-to-practice ratio: roughly 1:2 (review-heavy by week's end).
  • Weekend: section mock alternating Q / V / DI.
Week 10Jul 10 – Jul 16
Mock + debrief

Full mock + structured debrief. Re-prioritise based on what surfaces.

  • One full-length mock under exam conditions.
  • Written debrief: per-section, per-question-type, three biggest errors.
  • Action items for the next week, written down.
Week 11Jul 17 – Jul 23
Targeted weak-spot drill

Surgical work on the remaining 2-3 weaknesses from your last mock.

  • No new content. Focused drilling on what the last debrief surfaced.
  • One mid-week section mock on the weakest remaining area.
  • Continue spaced review on past misses — daily.
Week 12Jul 24 – Jul 30
Final week protocol

No new questions. Light review only. Sleep, nutrition, logistics.

  • Final full mock 7-10 days before exam, then no further mocks.
  • Day before: rest. Re-read top error-log patterns once. Then stop.
  • See the exam-day checklist for the day-of routine.

A schedule is only as good as the data behind it

Real plans adjust weekly.

This page gives you a defensible baseline. The platform's adaptive plan re-prioritises every week based on your last seven days of misses — the loop you'd otherwise have to run by hand.

Free template

Get the error-log template I used to go from 565 to 735.

The same six-tag taxonomy the Zakarian platform uses, in a spreadsheet you can run yourself.

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