You should also check out the forum thread on verbal books best-gmat-verbal-prep-books-reviews-recommendations-78094.html. Beyond this site, I'd recommend googling ESL resources. In fact, here's a link to some resources at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/678/01/.
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It's funny that you mentioned careless mistakes. I thought about them earlier today. I told myself that on test day, I will need to take my time and assess each question carefully. I intend to ask myself, "What is the question truly asking you and what nuances are obvious?" The nuances of a question can be killer.
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Keeping a log of your errors is a very good idea.

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I am new to this forum or so to say have come here after a long while.On my first attemp at the real GMAT i got a 690 ( 48 Q ) and would like to improve so am back to the basics. How would you guys rate the GMATclub tests and any specific study technics are welcomed..I NEED HELP !!!

Which tests did you do? Did you see a percentile ranking at the end?
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I'm actually glad I scored this poorly on the first challenge. I'm going to cut out these mistakes and watch my score climb.

I am trying to get my 250 quality posts so I can get the challenges! Wow, a 42 to a 48 is a nice improvement and one that I would like to make as well. I am at a 42Q on GMAT Prep. Ive heard that the challenges are mainly for the 47+ level trying to get to the 50+. What do you think of that lanter1?

I completed all of the GMAT Club tests over a span of 2 weeks prior to my exam. The questions were fair and representative to a certain extent. I found that on the test there were more "applied" math problems. We are used to the speed, rate, work problems but I had two questions dealing with volume & density and another dealing with electrical power. Pretty straight forward stuff but it threw me for a loop and I ended up messing up all three questions (first three questions of the damn test!). Hence the 49.

Thinking about buying...

I would recommend this to everyone but only after you build up a very solid math foundation. It's one thing to understand how to do every type of math question but its a totally different thing to handle hard question after hard question in a timely manner. The GMAT will continue to give you time consuming and tricky questions if you continue to perform well. The GMAT Club tests represent this aspect of the test well. So if you are scoring high on the practice tests or know your math very well, buy these tests. If not, keep working away on math problems until you are scoring high in practice (untimed).

The questions are very representative. After completing all of the tests I found some of the harder concepts like probability and inequalities to be much easier. I noticed the variation in question types and the tricks and pitfalls in both types of math questions. Data Sufficiency also turned into a strength and problem solving questions became "gimmies"


Sample Scores

m01: you answered correctly 30 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m01 is 75.5%
m02: you answered correctly 34 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m02 is 93.1%
m03: you answered correctly 30 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m03 is 79.3%
m04: you answered correctly 32 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m04 is 84.9%
m05: you answered correctly 34 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m05 is 96.0%
m06: you answered correctly 35 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m06 is 97.4%
m07: you answered correctly 36 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m07 is 98.5%
m08: you answered correctly 35 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m08 is 97.2%
m09: you answered correctly 34 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m09 is 95.0%
m10: you answered correctly 31 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m10 is 85.1% (late night)
m11: you answered correctly 34 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m11 is 92.5%
m12: you answered correctly 34 out of 37 questions; your percentile on test m12 is 94.5%
so and so forth...

Gmat club maths tests are simply awesome. These tests really take score to 49+ level.
However, I would suggest gmatclub quant test makers to include following concepts.
1. Interest calculations - I don't remember doing atleast one problem on these concepts. But, GMATPrep and real-GMAT are most likely to give problems on these concepts.

One word decribes everything about gmatclub test : "challenging"!
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