Ok...took another CAT (GMATPrep) and saw a bit of an improvement. Not where I want to be but I'll take it for now. I'll list both CAT's from 9/4 and my most recent one, 9/11.
9/4: Score: 500Quant:- Questions 1-10: 4/10 Incorrect.
- Questions 11-23: 6/13 Incorrect.
- Questions 24-37: 12/14 Incorrect. (Guessed on last ten).
Reasons for Incorrect:- Silly Mistakes: 9
- Intentionally passed / Triaged: 4
- Guessed/Rushed (due to time): 9
Total: 22
Verbal:- Questions 1-10: 5/10 Incorrect. 3 S.C / 1 R.C / 1 C.R
- Questions 11-25: 7/15 Incorrect. 2 S.C / 3 R.C / 2 C.R
- Questions 26-40: 7/15 Incorrect. 1 S.C / 2 R.C / 5 C.R (Guessed on last three and got wrong due to time)
Total Wrong: 19
Reasons for Incorrect:- Silly Mistakes / Didn't read Carefully: 5
- Did not know: 2
- Missed: SV agreement / modifier / Comparison / Parallelism : 1 each - 4 total
- Did not POE: 1
- C.R: Chose 180: 1
- Missed Idiom: 3
- Guessed (last 3 due to time): 3
9/11: Score: 560 Quant: 36 Scaled / 40 Percentile. Verbal: 31 Scaled /51 PercentileQuant:- Questions 1-10: 6/10 Incorrect. ( 1 Content / 4 Silly Mistakes)
- Questions 11-23: 4/13 Incorrect. (3 Too Difficult / 1 Silly Mistakes)
- Questions 24-37: 8/14 Incorrect. ( 1 Too Difficult / 2 Disorganized / 2 rushed / 3 Silly Mistakes)
Total: 18Reasons for incorrect:- Silly Mistake: 8
- Content / Did not know / Too Difficult: 5
- Rushed / Disorganized: 4
Verbal- Questions 1-10: 4/10 Incorrect. 2 S.C / 2 C.R
- Questions 11-25: 3/15 Incorrect. 2 S.C / 1 C.R
- Questions 26-41: 5/16 Incorrect. 3 S.C / 1 C.R / 1 R.C (rushed last two).
Total: 12 (7 S.C / 4 C.R / 1 R.C)Reasons for Incorrect:- Silly Mistakes / Didn't read Carefully: 5 (4 S.C / 1 C.R)
- Did not know: 1 (1 S.C)
- Missed: SV agreement / modifier / Comparison / Parallelism (2 S.C)
- Did not POE: 1 (1 S.C)
- Missed Meaning / Mis-interpreted "Prethink" in CR and RC: 4 (3 C.R / 1 R.C)
Diagnosis??Quant:Silly Mistakes: Not much of an improvement here. When I mean silly, I mean REALLY SILLY.
Example of a question I missed:What is the Range in set { 9,8,7,3,17,15, and 16}? I Chose 13 (16-3) and missed the 17.
Ouch I know...
Missing Patterns: There were a few questions that I got correct but spent too much time on them. This led to rushing and disorganization in some of my of my other work. After reviewing the questions, I see where I missed certain patterns and If noticed, would have shaved off a few minutes.
Pacing: It felt better this time but still need to work on it.
Too difficult / Content: These I intentionally dropped so I'm not too worried about them.
Verbal:Silly Mistakes: Much of this is due to not completely reading the answer choices in S.C. In the beginning of my studies, SC was my strongest area so I've neglected it a bit. I feel that more practice in this area will get me going a bit.
Missed Modifier / Comparison / Parallelism / SV agree: Same as above, Practice more SC questions
Missed Meaning / Mis-interpreted "Pre-think" in CR and RC: Overall I feel good about RC and just have to work on pre-thinking answer choices in CR.
Please chime in you have any suggestions or observations.