GMAT Diagnostic Test - Quest for Best GMAT Diagnostic Test

bb · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:16 am

Welcome to the "Best" Free GMAT Diagnostic Test - Evolving GMAT Club Community Project

Take Online | Download the Test | Download the Answer Sheet

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Let's work together as a community to create world's best GMAT Diagnostic test by creating, refining, and improving diagnostic questions.

We have started this project with the Quant section to help GMAT test takers understand their weaknesses better. The test is free - please take it. If you have any questions or suggestions - post them here. Also, the idea of the test is to improve it based on the feedback of the community - here is how you can share your thoughts:
1. Rate questions using the STAR rating system - the ones that rank low will be gradually phased out
2. Provide verbal feedback by replying to this thread
3. Suggest question types to be included in this test - please provide examples if possible (we'll take care of creating the questions)
4. Finally - get others to take this test and provide their feedback

Also see ranking of all questions on the same page here: listing-of-all-gmat-diagnostic-question-rankings-82058.html

How to use the Diagnostic Test - The Diagnostic Test is setup to allow you to test you as thoroughly or as quickly as you would prefer. The questions are arranged in sections in an increasing difficulty order - the first question is always 600-650 level, mid question is 700 level, and the last question is 750 level. If you are in a hurry, you can take either all easy or medium, or all hard questions only. Instead of 45 questions, you can only take 15 and leave the rest for later.

Taking the test
You should spend a maximum of 90 minutes answering 45 questions or if you are taking fewer then plan to spend on average 2 minutes per question

Where are the questions from?
The questions have been developed by very experienced and high scoring GMAT Club members

Are the questions copyrighted?
Yes, but you can post and distribute them to benefit other test takers - please give credit to GMATClub for the hard work our members put into this test

Edit: Revision History:
v3.4 - fixed the wording in questions 20, 22, 24, 40, 43, 45; download count of the PDF was 272
v3.31 - fixed a typo in the answer key; download count of the PDF was 380; Excel file - 203
v3.3 - updated question 4; download count was 80
v3.2 - updated question 20; download count was 68
v3.1 - updated questions 15 and 25; download count of the PDF was 110
v3.0 - updated questions 4, 15, 20, 40, and 43; download count of the PDF was 1377
Answers Sheet - updated answer choices for v3.0; download count was 2677
v2.9 - updated questions 37 and 13, download count was 2481
v2.8 - updated question 44; download count of the PDF was 600
v2.7 - updated question 36; download count of the PDF was 300
v2.6 - updated question 7; download count of the PDF was 45; updated the answer choices; it's download count was ~1500

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bb · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:15 pm

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Additional Practice for Areas Tested:
Arithmetic

Roots (1, 2, 3, 5)
Powers (4, 5, 6)
Fractions (6, 7, 8, 9, 12)
Number Properties (3, 4, 7, 8, 9)
Special Characters/Operations (10, 11, 12) - N/A
Modules (4, 14, 15, 16)

Statistics (16, 17, 18)
Word Problems

Min/Max (19, 20, 21)
Overlapping Sets (22, 23, 24)
Rate (25, 26, 27)
Work (28, 29, 30)
Mixture (31, 32, 33)

Geometry (34, 35, 36)
Probability (37, 38, 39)
Combinations (37, 40, 41, 42)
Algebra (43, 44, 45)

bb · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:06 am

Scoring Guide - Coming Soon

Hussain15 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:07 am

First of all "Thanks a lot"!!!

You guys are so kind, I feel lucky to be here.

A little query, when is the verbal test expected?? & secondly this test is not intended for new comers, it is for those who are in final stages of their preparation?? Am I right???

snipertrader · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:28 am

This is nice...can we add a info tag reg time..or avg time ppl took to solve it ?

Praetorian · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:31 am

bb · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:31 am

Hussain15 wrote:

First of all "Thanks a lot"!!!

You guys are so kind, I feel lucky to be here.

A little query, when is the verbal test expected?? & secondly this test is not intended for new comers, it is for those who are in final stages of their preparation?? Am I right???

The verbal will depend on the success of the Quant one. Verbal is harder to develop, so we thought it made sense to start with a simpler task and see how popular the diagnostic test will be.

You can take it at any stage of your Prep - the idea was to take in the early stage but you can take the first 2 questions of each section in the beginning of your prep (these are 600 and 700 level questions) and then the last question in each section at the end (these are 750 level)

cialit0506 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:30 am

Omg people, thanks for putting up all these questions!

Totally grateful to you guys~

artuurss · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:50 pm

Thank you for this tool! I've been in this prep process for 40 days now! I have improved form 430 to 600 something and now I need hard stuff to help me!!! I'll start with this thing to know where I am!!!

pleonasm · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:33 pm

Wonderful .. Kudos and Thanks for starting this.

bb · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:40 pm

Thank you for your feedback!

I am excited to see that people are rating questions - great job!
I am also planning to add ratings for explanations to separate one from another to be clear what specifically needs improvement.

bb · **Posted:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:55 pm

ajayvarmasv wrote:

Thanks a lot. Could you add verbal to it?

We will but that will be determined if we can find a great Verbal writer. Balanced verbal test is much tougher to create

bb · **Posted:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:38 pm

Thank you all for suggestions, clarifications, and questions - the PDF version has been updated.

Ibodullo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:31 pm

OMG!!! Awsome, Brilliant!!! Thank you very much BB!

bb · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:48 pm

Ibodullo wrote:

OMG!!! Awsome, Brilliant!!! Thank you very much BB!

You guys are funny :lol:

shilpzsharma · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:56 am

thanks a lot!!!

maliyeci · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:24 am

I did 42/45. What does it means? 49-50-51?

jaxtor · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:24 am

BB.....this is just so perfect....Thanks a heap for helping out all the GMAT souls........hope to see some more tests on quant such as this one......

Thankyou again BB....

Cheers!

Thanks and Best Regards,
JAXTOR

defoue · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:49 am

Thx very much for this very helpfull package!!!

benpack03 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:32 am

bb,

You rock, as usual.....

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