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How to Improve Your Executive Assessment Score
Are you trying to figure out how to improve your Executive Assessment (EA) score? We’ve got you covered, whether you’re gearing up for your first EA or have taken the test multiple times but haven’t seen a score increase.

The good news is that achieving high Executive Assessment test scores is possible whatever your situation. This article will assist you in getting over the hump and achieving the EA scores you deserve. We’ll go through numerous possible reasons why your Executive Assessment score has remained stagnant and suggestions for increasing your score.

Let’s take a look at the 7 important questions that you can answer to determine how to improve your EA score.

#1: Do I Have Any Skill Gaps?
To improve your EA score, you will have to learn hundreds of concepts and formulas. However, on exam day, you have no way of knowing which concepts will be tested. Thus, knowing all of EA quant, verbal, and Integrated Reasoning (IR) is a must to put yourself in the best position to succeed.

Furthermore, I’m sure that, as you have practiced EA questions, you’ve noticed that a single quantitative, verbal, or IR question might test you on multiple concepts. In the case of IR, multiple quant and verbal topics can appear in a single question.

Thus, it should be clear that as you grasp more skills, the likelihood of getting tripped up on even one component of a problem diminishes. So, let’s discuss how to locate and fix your skill gaps.

Quant Weaknesses
Identifying quant skill gaps can be tricky, especially if you’re missing questions that require you to apply multiple concepts to arrive at the answer. So, to identify your weak quant areas, you may need to break down a question into linear steps.

For example, when answering a quant question about a worker who completes a job x hours faster than another worker, you may be required to complete the following steps.

1. Recognize the type of “work” problem presented.
2. Input rate, time, and work into the work matrix.
3. Create a “total work” equation using just one variable.
4. Eliminate fractions in the equation.
5. Factor the quadratic equation.

What would happen if you were solid up to step 4, but you misused the rules of eliminating fractions? Or even worse, let’s say you got to step 5 but did not know how to factor the quadratic equation. Unfortunately, you’d get to the one-yard line but not score the touchdown, right?

So, if you got the question wrong, a big mistake would be to assume that you’re struggling with just Work questions. Before arriving at such a conclusion, you should analyze where you went wrong. By doing so, you could pinpoint that step 4 or step 5 within solving the Work problem was your issue. Then, you’d need to spend time reviewing fractions or quadratics.

Verbal Weaknesses
Improving in EA Verbal also requires identifying specific areas of weakness. For example, a key aspect of Sentence Correction mastery is learning how various types of modifiers work. The use of modifiers has significant impacts on the meanings conveyed by and the effectiveness of sentences. So, understanding how modifiers of each type work is essential for assessing whether sentences convey meanings that make sense.

For example, let’s say that you saw the following sentence version in a Sentence Correction question:

In order for a nation to achieve solvency, it must reduce spending, addressing government corruption.

If you were not familiar with how participial phrase modifiers, such as “addressing government corruption,” work, you might decide that the sentence is correct. However, the truth is that the sentence suggests an illogical idea, which is that, by reducing spending, a nation addresses government corruption.

To avoid repeating the mistake of deciding that such a sentence is correct, you’d have to identify that the reason you made the mistake was that you didn’t realize that the use of the modifier is illogical. Once you identified the issue, you would know that you have a knowledge gap in the topic of modifiers that you must remedy. Then, by addressing that area of weakness, you would improve your Sentence Correction performance and increase your expected EA verbal score.

Maintain an Error Log
Maintaining an error log is an efficient way to detect your skill deficiencies and ensure that you methodically fix them.

Keeping a detailed error log requires recording the types of questions you get wrong and the causes of your errors. If you’re analyzing a quant question that you answered incorrectly, for example, you might ask yourself the following questions:

  • Is it possible that I did not fully understand the topic on which the question is based?
  • Was there a particular formula I needed to use but couldn’t recall?
  • Did I mess up the execution of a particular math concept?
  • Did I not understand the question?

You get closer to your EA goal score each time you identify a weakness or issue regarding how you attacked a question. So, each time you can spot a flaw in your thinking, you are getting yourself one step closer to your target score.

So, analyzing the results of practice exams or problem sets is important. To catch your mistakes, go over each question you answered incorrectly and determine where you went wrong.

Now, let’s discuss how to analyze the results of your practice tests.

Examine the Results of Your Practice Tests
It’s important to properly evaluate every question from a problem set or practice test in order to determine your strengths and weaknesses. Also, since there are only 12 IR, 14 quant, and 14 verbal questions on each practice exam, squeeze as much juice as you can from each test question.

When reviewing your tests, go beyond just checking to see which questions you missed. Be honest with yourself about how you arrived at your answers. For example, if you took a guess and got a question correct, ask yourself why you had to guess in the first place. Also, don’t assume that just because you get one question right from a particular topic, you have that topic 100-percent mastered.

Additionally, spend the necessary time to fill in any knowledge gaps between each practice test. Otherwise, you may not get the results you’re seeking or may see pretty significant test score variation when your guesses go your way on one test but don’t on another. If you find that you need up to a week to review your practice exam and do a thorough review of your weak areas, don’t be alarmed. Give yourself the time you need to improve.

#2: Am I Making Careless Mistakes?
When a student asks, “How can I improve my Executive Assessment score?,” I immediately inquire about careless mistakes. Careless errors happen in various shapes and sizes, and they’re all costly.

You might, for example, forget to apply a fact in a data sufficiency question, such as “x is an integer.” You may make a calculation error, such as simplifying 14/34 to 7/16. You may miss that a sentence pairs a singular noun with a plural verb.

Your EA score will suffer if you commit any of these types of careless errors. So, reducing the number of careless errors you make can significantly improve your overall score.