Your studying isn’t done just because you’ve completed your GMAT practice test.
As Kaplan instructors, we’ve seen it hundreds of times: a student diligently takes a GMAT practice test once—sometimes twice—per week while studying for the GMAT and finds him or herself tripping up on the same issues every time. Not the same broad content areas, like geometry or sentence correction, but the same specific tricks, like the side ratios of 30-60-90 triangles or the application of the past perfect tense.
There is a simple prescription for this ailment: read the explanations on your practice exams!
Use GMAT practice test explanations to raise your score
The explanations given along with each sample GMAT question in your test prep material contain the most useful lessons and the most explicit feedback in the battery of information that results from a GMAT practice test. Being able to see how every single question can be solved in the most accurate and timely way is an invaluable resource.
Kaplan’s entire question pool of over 5,000 questions will take you step by step through the appropriate methods and strategies. Every confusing quantitative question stem is translated to its corresponding equation, every critical reasoning stimulus is elegantly untangled, and every GMAT score-raising and time-saving strategy is meticulously detailed.
So remember that your GMAT practice test doesn’t end after you confirm your answer for question 41 in the verbal section. Take time to read through the explanations for all the questions that led you to the wrong answer choice or took you more than a couple minutes to solve; even take a glance at the questions you got right to make sure you didn’t just make a lucky guess or pass up a method that would have saved you some precious time. Then take the lessons you’ve learned and apply them to your remaining practice tests, and, most importantly, on GMAT Test Day. Your score will thank you for it!
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