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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 an official mba.com practice exam) and the schedule re-prioritises around your weakest section.
Typical working professional: 7.5 (90 min/day × 5 days/wk).
12
Full plan
96
@ 8 hrs/wk
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Take a practice exam
Generic schedule (no accuracy data)
Take an official practice exam on mba.com as your baseline, then re-generate this schedule with the section accuracies for a real plan.
Set your baseline first, then start reading the section you're weakest at.
- Take an official practice exam to set your baseline.
- Review your section scores — identify your weakest section + two weakest topics.
- Set up the error log template before any practice.
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.
Drill weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam) topics, timed, with full review after every set.
- 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam).
- 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
Drill weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam) topics, timed, with full review after every set.
- 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam).
- 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
Drill weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam) topics, timed, with full review after every set.
- 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam).
- 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
Drill weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam) topics, timed, with full review after every set.
- 6 hours of timed drilling on weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam).
- 30 min per session reviewing every miss into the error log.
- End-of-block: short timed mock on this section.
Drill second-weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam) topics. Maintain weekly maintenance on the first.
- 5 hours on second-weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam).
- 2 hours of maintenance on the first weakest.
- Re-sort the error log mid-week. Confirm patterns are shifting.
Drill second-weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam) topics. Maintain weekly maintenance on the first.
- 5 hours on second-weakest section (TBD by your baseline exam).
- 2 hours of maintenance on the first weakest.
- Re-sort the error log mid-week. Confirm patterns are shifting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Get the error-log template I used to go from 565 to 735.
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