Gmatclub Test transmutation into mocks

hero_with_1000_faces - Your results seem perfectly consistent with where you have been scoring, by your account "within 10 days," and it does not get much more recent than that. I know the consensus is that GMAT Club mocks are a little harder than the real thing, but I like to say that your score will only likely be as good as the weakest of the practice lot. You cannot expect your score to jump simply due to the number of hours you have invested or the high quality of the questions you have been studying. (This is a common misconception.) Have you, for example, grouped your missed questions into different content areas? Have you figured out which types of mistakes are costing you correct answers? Along these lines, I like to place errors into three categories:

1) those you have made due to carelessness. Such errors can include misreading the question or answering a question that is not being asked (e.g., figuring out the value of x when then question is asking about y or 3x - 5). These are the first sorts of errors you should seek to eliminate or significantly reduce if you are shooting for a high Quant score.

2) those you have made due to a fundamental lack of understanding. Examining which types of questions you tend to miss (e.g., combinatorics, rates) or guess on can help you home in on these areas.

3) those you have made due to a lack of test-specific technique. This is where a good set of video tutorials, an Internet forum (ahem), a guidebook, or a live tutor can come in and revamp your perhaps inefficient manner of tackling more difficult questions especially. Maybe you are spending 3 minutes on certain questions because you are too tied to the notion that you need to get the exact answer, but the DS question in front of you is a simple Yes/No that does not require such precision. You should focus your efforts on this sort of fine-tuning with high-quality study materials or study buddies, preferably those you do not have to pay to bounce ideas off of. (And yes, I say this as a tutor.)

Something about all your hard work is still missing the mark, or else you would be earning higher scores. One more matter to consider: if that was your first Experts' Global mock, then the slightly different format of the questions could have thrown you off. I have seen this happen many times with clients who switch from, say, Princeton Review questions to those from the OG. It may take time to accustom yourself to the Experts' Global question format. If you score the same consistently, then I would say to go back up and reexamine which (combination) of 1), 2), or 3) may be holding you back.

Best of luck to you in your studies.

- Andrew