A focused CR study plan for busy applicants

Do a mixed set without obsessing over score. Tag every miss as assumption, weaken, strengthen, inference, boldface, evaluate, paradox, or flaw. Your two weakest tags become the week two focus.

A single mixed diagnostic set is enough to start that map before you scale volume.

Also note attention errors: rushed stem read, no prediction, trap fatigue on choice A. Split misses into content versus process. Some leaks are patterns. Some leaks are habits.

End week one with a one page summary: top two weak types, top two traps, best time of day for focus. That page guides everything after.

Spend most sessions on one weak type, then finish with a short mixed set so skills transfer. Review the same day. Sleep on it. Repeat the type within forty eight hours.

Keep sessions short enough that you actually show up. Consistency beats heroic weekend marathons.

Sample week: Monday assumption block plus review, Tuesday causation block plus review, Wednesday mixed ten, Thursday boldface if needed, Friday redo misses without notes, Saturday rest or light flash cards, Sunday timed mixed if accuracy is stable.

If a type stays below seventy percent untimed after a week, extend it into week three before adding speed pressure.

Busy applicants need a floor, not a fantasy. Fifteen focused minutes daily beats zero minutes because a perfect two hour block never happened.

Minimum session: read stem first on five questions, full review on two misses, one sentence takeaway written. That is enough to keep the loop alive on travel days.

Protect one longer block weekly for mixed sets and timing experiments. The long block is where transfer shows up.

Add soft timing only after untimed accuracy on a type crosses roughly seventy percent. Then run timed sets on strong types first, not your worst leaks.

Alternate timed and untimed weeks if score swings appear. Swings usually mean process broke, not that you forgot content.

Log flagged items and review them before the next timed set. Unreviewed flags become repeat mistakes with confidence.

Same day review for every miss. Forty eight hour redrill without notes on misses you labeled hard. Seven day redrill on anything you missed twice.

Keep a running trap list and pattern shelf updated after each review. Ten minutes of maintenance saves hours of rereading explanations later.

Sleep matters. CR is attention heavy. Two sharp morning blocks beat four foggy evening blocks for most working applicants.

Once the free packs feel clear, unlock CR Pro. You are not buying a static pile to binge once. You are buying a mastery window: patterns, redrills, adaptive sets, and new drops of 100+ questions every two weeks.

MBA Jump is priced for that reality: one payment on sale for $29, full explanations, and a gamified loop so you compress CR progress into focused days, not endless forum scrolling.

Use Pro as a six to eight week sprint with the weekly structure above, not as an infinite guilt pile. A plan you follow beats a perfect plan you abandon.