Gmatclub quant tests.... what's a good accuracy rate?

Question

I'm using gmatclub tests to prepare and hopefully increase my quant score, but I'm only getting about half of the 37 correct. What accuracy rate that I should be aiming for to reach 48+ on the official GMAT?

Also, what's a good strategy to improve? I have a good foundation in quant but I'm finding a lot of these questions to be difficult. Do I take the exams, review what mistakes I made, rinse and repeat?

prateekbhatt · Answer

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thesouthpaw · Answer

I have recently given the GMAT, and I scored 48 with 72% accuracy. I have paid for enhanced reports so I was able to get my accuracy percentage.
 My question is how much accuracy is needed to get a score of 50. Anyone who has given the exam recently , please reply.

EDIT: I am so sorry. It is the percentile not the accuracy.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi thesouthpaw,

Unfortunately, the ESR does NOT provide information about your 'accuracy' in any of the sections - the data that you receive is your PERCENTILE data (how your performance compares to the performances of all Test Takers).

Since GMAC does not provide a list of the questions that you got wrong on Test Day, you have to look at your past performances (on your practice CATs) to try to determine where your 'missing points' can be found. The most common reason for lost points is silly/little mistakes, but there might also be some content areas that you need extra practice on or some extra focus on Tactics might be needed (for DS questions and certain PS question types).

1) What was your Official Score (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) What is your goal score?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

thesouthpaw · Answer

Hi Rich,

Thanks for your reply. Well, I have given just one practice test before my official one. I was short on time. I scored 610 with 48 Q and 25V. My goal is to touch 720 in my next attempt. Currently, I am practicing Verbal Review and getting 68.5% accuracy in Verbal. My quant is okay but I make a lot of silly mistakes. I want to get a 50 in quant. In Verbal, I am trying to reach a 75% accuracy. Hope it will help secure above 35 score.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi thesouthpaw,

The scoring Algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complex than most people realize - and it factors in far more than the percentage of questions that you get correct. As such, that statistic isn't nearly as meaningful as you might think it is (or might want it to be). When it comes to picking up points, you have to look at all of the questions that you get wrong but COULD/SHOULD have gotten correct. In the Quant section, you already seem to recognize when you made a little mistake on a question. In the Verbal section, you should look for questions that you 'narrowed down to 2 choices, but still got wrong' - in theory, you were really close to getting the correct answer, but you still missed something vital in the prompt.

Taking FULL-LENGTH CATs (including the Essay and IR sections) at regular intervals is a really important part of training to face the Official GMAT. As such, you should plan to take one every 1-2 weeks as you continue to study.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

bb · Answer

There is no correlation between correct answer choices and your score on the GMAT.... see this discussion to get an idea: gmat-prep-software-analysis-and-what-if-scenarios-146146.html P.S. Same on the GMAT Club tests. Getting half of the questions right would give you about 50th or 70th percentile.... depending on how you answer them

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