GMAT Diagnostic Test - Quest for Best GMAT Diagnostic Test : General GMAT Questions and Strategies

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Welcome to the "Best" Free GMAT Diagnostic Test - Evolving GMAT Club Community Project Download the Test | Download the Answer Sheet 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. Take the questions in the forum and make sure you are using the timer so the difficulty is accurately established 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 Index of Diagnostic Test Questions, Explanations, and Discussions: Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26 Question 27 QUestion 28 Question 29 Question 30 Question 31 Question 32 Question 33 Question 34 Question 35 Question 36 Question 37 Question 38 Question 39 Question 40 Question 41 Question 42 Question 43 Question 44 Question 45 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 Diagnostic_Test_Answers_6.1.xls Revision History: v5.0 - updated over 50% of the questions and replaced several questions 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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this is just super fantastic.
I have been on this forum for quite some time now and was thinking why don't they have a diagnostic or something.
bingo....

thank you so much
lets see how i fair

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Thanks thanks and thanks again...

hoping to make the best use of this opprtunity :-D

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Agree, what kind of diagnistic would you like?

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Ugh, are these questions harder than the OGB 12th edition? I am getting about half wrong.

No real distinction between difficulties either. I error on the same number of 600 q's as I do for the 750 q's.

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Thanks for the feedback.
If you feel they are not representative or categorized, please rate/comment on each of the question threads. Would be helpful!

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Yes, these questions must be more difficult than those in OG books. This test is designed to help you identify your currently weak areas. Once you know your weaknesses you should study the fundamental concepts and then take practice questions again. You should be able to separate careless mistakes from the conceptual mistakes you make. You should start using an error log if you haven't yet. Error log helps to track down your problematic areas.

Here's a thread that will help you to get started with preparation:
new-to-the-math-forum-please-read-this-first-77764.html

I hope it helps you on your GMAT jouney

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Ugh, are these questions harder than the OGB 12th edition? I am getting about half wrong.

No real distinction between difficulties either. I error on the same number of 600 q's as I do for the 750 q's.

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Thanks! This forum is truly excellent.

I may look at getting the MGMAT quant books since I'm lacking conceptual shortcuts to tackle many questions.

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Harder than problems I've seen/been working on- thanks!

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Gr8 format and questions.. love the Diagnostic Test Answer sheet patter. Its so helpful with the graphs and stuff, you know what are you weak points.

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To all forum moderators:
I have been a silent admirer of this forum for about 4 yrs and recommended this to a lot of GMAT aspirants but I could not use it as much as my friends did

. Just want to appreciate all your efforts.

Regarding the diagnostic test, I have been refreshing my Math skills and feel I am still few days to a week away from it. Do you think I am ready to take the test or to really diagnose where I stand, I should take it after I am OK with my Math skills?

Thanks.

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Thank you for all the kind words!

I think it is a good idea to use this diagnostic test whenever you begin to prepare for the Math part of the GMAT. This test will help you identify your weak areas. After you do so, you can focus on these weak spots rather than refreshing all Math concepts.

Just my 2 cents

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To all forum moderators:
I have been a silent admirer of this forum for about 4 yrs and recommended this to a lot of GMAT aspirants but I could not use it as much as my friends did

. Just want to appreciate all your efforts.

Regarding the diagnostic test, I have been refreshing my Math skills and feel I am still few days to a week away from it. Do you think I am ready to take the test or to really diagnose where I stand, I should take it after I am OK with my Math skills?

Thanks.

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Hello, thanks for all the hard work on this great Diagnostic Test!

I've just posted corrections for about 8 questions. Please update the PDF accordingly to make this diagnostic test much tighter and feasible (badly-worded questions take a lot more than 2 minutes to make sense out of).

I think another way in which this test could be improved is by actually testing how much time it takes to solve them. These problems mostly tend to take at least 2 minutes each, so I don't think it's possible to do all 45 in 90 minutes.

Maybe you should turn this into an untimed diagnostic test, just like in the Official Guide.

Great work, keep it up!

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I took this the other day and the format/interface is similar to the actual GMAT - some of the questions were hard but I think this is good practice for the actual GMAT. I was expecting a verbal section, but that's OK! Words are words. Haha, jk.

Thanks bb!

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Hi there,
Just a general question for everybody. I just gave the free practice test. Q25/V06. I got 18 Q's right on the quant (couldnt finish last 5 q on time) and 28 correct on the verbal which is pretty good I think (approx eual to V35+). But my percentile is like 20/18. How is that possible. I have been constantly scoring 650-700 in MGMAT tests. So does that mean that 80% of the people taking these tests are above that range? Or is that some people take the test over and over till they get everything correct (timed and untimed)? Is the calculation of percentile correct? Could I please get an explanation?

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Are you talking about our GMAT Club Tests? If so, our percentiles are not a good indicator of a real GMAT percentiles because our test taker population is very different from that of the real GMAT test. Some people also might have taken theses tests in an untimed mode.

Just don't concentrate on the percentile scores too much. Learn your mistakes and don't do them again

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Hi there,
Just a general question for everybody. I just gave the free practice test. Q25/V06. I got 18 Q's right on the quant (couldnt finish last 5 q on time) and 28 correct on the verbal which is pretty good I think (approx eual to V35+). But my percentile is like 20/18. How is that possible. I have been constantly scoring 650-700 in MGMAT tests. So does that mean that 80% of the people taking these tests are above that range? Or is that some people take the test over and over till they get everything correct (timed and untimed)? Is the calculation of percentile correct? Could I please get an explanation?

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thanks a lot . :-D

... i just got to know about this site and started browsing it.... it's really good... i am about to take my first GMAT diagnostic test that I just downloaded.....

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Welcome to the Club!

Good luck with your GMAT Prep!

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thanks a lot . :-D

... i just got to know about this site and started browsing it.... it's really good... i am about to take my first GMAT diagnostic test that I just downloaded.....

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