hi my name is fred and i work here at magoosh as a gmat tutor and as a project manager helping create
some of the content that you see across magoosh and in particular in these videos we're going to
focus on the gmat and the most stressful part of the process for most which is the later stages of
study as in you've been studying for a while and maybe you're hitting a plateau or maybe you're
just trying to figure out how to best utilize your time and second after you've taken the gmat
and you're happy with your score or at least you feel as if it's checked that box and you're ready
for the next step so first i'll just give a brief introduction of myself so i've been a tutor for 10
years and i've successfully coached many students into getting into their top program choices
top five choices and i have a special respect for those who go to take the gmat and while the gre
and sat and mcat lsat are no pushovers themselves the gmat is a special kind of exam in the way
that it's able to challenge students and having been in the student seat before taking this exam
it's amazing how an adaptive exam can really test your endurance and test your sanity at some times
so if you are taking this test and you probably are if you're watching this video pat yourself on
the back so in addition to being a gmat tutor i'm also a project manager i worked in big4
finance and eventually pivoted into big tech and so i bring a lot of those practices of
ruthless prioritization and making sure that you don't over emphasize that things that are
allocated very low on the exam um compared to the things that need more attention on the exam
spoiler alert so i'll tell you a little bit more about what i wish i knew when i
was first taking the test hands down the thing that i wish i had known was that some subjects
are tested far more frequently than others for example function questions in the quant section
by a lot of estimates online are less than half of one percent of the entire exam
and that is a interesting thing to reconcile with your study schedule which might over allocate time
to a subject like that so i wish i could go back in time shake myself terminator style and tell
myself to please focus on the higher priority items especially where they intersect with my
greatest weaknesses that would have saved weeks as far as my hobbies go i love to read and by
the way i recommend the economist to anybody who's studying the exam i love to play some video games
i'm a big final fantasy nerd and third i am a monroe bagger which is less strange than it sounds
in scotland uh where i got my master's degree when i was younger and thinner i tried to climb all of
the scottish monroes another word for mountain and there are 282 of them it's like pokemon you have
to collect them all and so across a lifetime i am hoping to eventually get there that's my
most interesting hobby all right i wanted to close out by saying thank you for watching this video
you can do it this is a very challenging exam and it certainly requires a lot of work but it
also requires a lot of strategy and so i hope that you get a lot out of these videos in turn
and by the way if you do happen to go to the other videos in lagos you'll find that there are other
tutors that focus on other parts of the process including the beginning
and some other kind of interesting facets of the exam including timing that might be valuable to
you so i encourage you to check it out thank you very much and good luck with your studies bye