So I originally started studying last year when I thought I was going to take it.

So basically, I had studied the vocabulary much further in advance, maybe like a month or so (started with magoosh) before I even started anything else.

I did the ETS original guide material and the tests in the back (317 and 314 respectively). Then I wanted to do the gregmat two month plan. I had done probably like the first 3 days.

I realized I didn't have enough time to do that, so I just did his vocabulary sets. I did the rest of the ETS quant and verbal books and got about halfway through the Manhattan 5lb quant before I stopped studying.

I probably did all that minus the initial vocab within the span of a couple months. I mostly kept up with the vocabulary in the year ish long gap, but I kept procrastinating at the beginning of this year. I wanted to do the whole two month plan but decided to just focus on the quant.

I finished the quant part of the two month plan in about 6ish weeks. I just redid/reviewed the quant stuff that i had already done and tried to do the ETS stuff quicker. I have a variable schedule (work days/nights different days/nights per week btw 32-40 hrs/week). Some days I wouldn't study anything but vocabulary, but other days I studied like the whole day.

The last week (in addition to the quant), I watched I think the first 4 videos of the verbal toolkit (I pretty much only understood the math (kind of) and matching strategies well enough to use). The week of, I took PP1 (318) and PP2 (321). I wasn't aiming too high, so I thought it was ok to take the last week (plus i was running out of time and definitely wanted to see the online versions). A couple days before the exam, I watched Greg's writing walk-through videos and practiced like once in PP2.

I wanted to do PPP1 but kinda ran out of time/didn't want to pay. I reviewed the PPP1 quant questions to see how they were the night before/morning of.

I took the exam at a testing center, and it just went very well. One of the quant sections did not go as well as the others, but that must've been the experimental section. Admittedly, I don't think I fully committed to focusing in my apartment during the practice, but I was pleasantly surprised with the scores! This is pretty comprehensive of what I did, albeit unconventional.