Success Principle 2 - Avoid Information Overload

If simply thinking about the GMAT is giving you a headache now, you certainly wouldn't want to live with a 6-month migraine pain!

I found out (accidentally) that it is much better to have your mind stay laser-focused for a shorter period of time than to spread your attention over a long period of time. It is much better to see improvement everyday for a month than to feel frustrated with slow progress over 6 months. Students often find themselves dedicated, even excited, in the first few weeks of studying for the GMAT. However after the initial "honeymoon" period, students begin to feel anxious, exhausted, and frustrated, especially with the realization that they still have to study and suffer for another 5-6 months.

I am not going to lie to you and say that studying for the GMAT is fun. You will get tired from it, and you will want to spend your time somewhere other than sitting at the desk looking at Sentence Correction or Word Problems. With a prolonged study time, you can never really relax when you go out, and you can never really focus when you study. Worse even, by the time you finish studying at the end of the 6th month, you might forget what you learned in the first two months!

This is why I believe (and others are starting to discover) that it is much better to study for a shorter period of time. If you dedicate yourself to a one-month study plan, you can be much more focused, knowing that after this month you'll be able to go back to having a normal social life. And because all you do in this one month is study for the GMAT, your mind is less distracted and is constantly in the "GMAT mode", instead of switching between "GMAT" and all the other things that are happening in your life. When you enter the test center, you will retain the knowledge and information you gained within the month much better.

However, simply shortening your study time from 6 months to 1 month is not going to help either. With a shorter time frame, you need to avoid the pitfall of "information overload". You want your brain to remember the most important strategies and nothing more. Learning too many techniques actually reduces your chance of success because it is confusing and lacks focus. It is extremely important to keep things simple.

And this is exactly how 30 Day GMAT Success was created, by first giving you a study plan that lasts only 30 days to keep you sharp and focused, and secondly giving you only the most important techniques and strategies for the GMAT that worked for me. My brain could NEVER hold all the information from thick, 600-page books, and I don't expect students to be able to do that either. By keeping the book compact and focused, we can avoid information overflow and concentrate on the important part - to help you achieve your desired GMAT score next month.