How to track my progress

Hey nik256,

Preparing for the GMAT can be a challenging task, but tracking your improvement can help ensure that you are on the right track.

To begin with, it's important to make sure that every concept learning phase ends with an untimed practice quiz. This quiz should contain sufficient questions on all variations of that concept, including easy, medium, and hard questions. You should aim at achieving an accuracy rate of at least 75% before moving on to the next concept. If you score lower than 75%, you should revise the concept and retake the quiz or attempt similar fresh quizzes until you cross that benchmark. Of course, there’s no one stopping you from targeting a 100% accuracy in these quizzes.

It's essential to do this for each concept in a module. Once you've completed all the concepts in a module, you can move on to the next module, and follow this process for each module in a sub-section. Finally, end with a sub-sectional quiz to progress to stage 2, which is the cementing stage, in that sub-section.

In the cementing stage, you should solve timed quizzes. This stage is crucial as it helps you to reinforce the concepts you have learned and ensure that you can recall and apply them quickly and accurately under timed conditions. It's important to remember that timing is critical on the GMAT, so practicing under timed conditions is an essential part of your preparation.

In both stages of your prep, maintain an Error Log and perform routine Strategic Reviews of your attempts. Tracking your progress in this way will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, and it will give you a clear indication of the areas you need to focus on to improve your overall score. It's important to keep a record of your scores and to review them regularly so that you can monitor your progress over time.

In conclusion, tracking your progress while preparing for the GMAT is crucial. By using practice quizzes and following the steps outlined above, and maintaining your Error Log through timely Strategic Review, you can identify your strengths and weaknesses, and make sure you are making steady improvements. Remember to aim for an accuracy rate of at least 75% in each concept learning phase, revise the concepts you don't understand, and solve timed quizzes in the cementing stage. With a disciplined approach and consistent effort, you can track your progress effectively and achieve your desired score on the GMAT.

Hoping this helps.

Best Regards,
Mansi

Hi nik256

The key to scoring well on GMAT is to focusing on the right aspects. First let us understand the right way to prepare for GMAT.

How to prepare for GMAT in the right way?

Before you start preparing for any test, it's important to understand the structure of the test, what is tested on it and then prepare accordingly. In this case, GMAT is a test which focuses on your application skills along with the conceptual knowledge. So, just learning the concepts and practicing questions without focusing on the right methodology will not do any good. So, I suggest you to first focus on the methodology to solve questions of a particular topic and only then move to practicing questions of that topic.

So, the right way to prepare would be to first

• learn the concepts of a topic,
• learn the right methodology to solve questions of that topic
• practice a few questions of that topic to solidify your learning and then move to the nest topic
• Repeat the process for all the topics

And working on weak areas is equally important. You move to the next topic only if you get a decent accuracy in the previous topic. If not, you revisit the concepts, fill the conceptual gaps and then move to the next topic only when you are 100% confident. There are a couple of articles which you might find helpful.



And you can go through the recording below to understand how to strategize your GMAT prep in an effective way.



Feel free to reach out in case of any queries!

Hi nik256,

To be clear, you are wondering how you confirm that you have mastered a particular topic before moving to the next one?