Result correlation between GMAT and GMAT Club's Tests

Is it possible to buy challenges from Russia? I couldn't find Russia in the list at PayPal page.

How about others?
Who else took both GMAT chalenges and real test?

We have activated access.

thanks
Praetorian

I highly recommend Challenges! Great stuff. And this from an Indian Engineer who had a rank in IIT.

I bought the question set 2 and I have to say I didn't even get half of them right the first time.....

GMAT Q Score: 50

I guess getting to know the concepts by going through the questions really helped me.

Jules

Challenge 22 - 99
Challenge 21 - 93
Challenge 20 - 96
Challenge 15 - 92
Challenge 14 - 97
Challenge 13 - 89
Challenge 12 - 93
Challenge 11 - 95
Challenge 10 - 91
Challenge 9 - 88
Challenge 8 - 95
Challenge 2 - 90

Real GMAT Q(50).

Challenge | Score

1 | 83
2 | 95
3 | 77
4 | 93
5 | 89
6 | 99 (*)
7 | 99
8 | 98 (*)
9 | 75
10 | 75
11 | 87
12 | 93 (*)
13 | 89
14 | 98 (*)
15 | 94 (*)
16 | 97
17 | 97
18 | 91
19 | 98
20 | 99
21 | 98

real gmat - 51 (99%)

the challenge interface was being re-done during most of this time so the built in timer wasn't working. thus you could keep going after 75 minutes. i started timing myself. scores marked with a * indicate when i went past the 75 minute mark. in some cases i spent up to 100 minutes. my goal early was on to learn how to do every question, even if it meant struggling during the test. then, from test 16 onwards or so, i was very good at doing the majority of question types. i then started to focus on test-taking strategy and would skip questions in the interest of time. by the last 3-4 challenges i was finishing a few minutes early. also, i would absolutely recommend that you go back and review each question whether you got it right or wrong. make sure you are tackling the problem the fastest way. i spent about 2 hours total on each challenge...75 taking the test and 40 minutes or so reviewing each question and re-doing questions i knew i could tackle faster.

i would really like to thank gmatclub for these challenges. w/o a doubt these challenges raised my score from 85-90% to 99%. the only other math prep i did was the last 1/3-1/4 questions in OG11 and OG quant workbook. i haven't tried mgmat, kaplan 800, etc.. but i would absolutely recommend these challenges if you're shooting for 49+ quant. well, well worth the $79.

i'm also doing the challenges but in the 'new' interface...is there a difference between the number of questions answered correctly and the 'score' that 'CalSpeedRacer' posted?

please advise...

How is the verbal challenge compared with the real GMAT exam?

Amar

To Pansarda:

Percentile scores were available earlier because a lot of people took the Challenges at the same time. We are currently working on getting the percentile scores back.

To Deeeee:

The idea behind the GMAT Club test (Challenges) is that if you score highly in them real GMAT math questions will not be difficult for you.

dzyubam

Both...focus on eliminating the mistakes you make in the challenges and keep doing them. You'll just get better from here on out

I'm facing a different problem with Maths challenges, I'm able to finish most of test in 45 minutes but end up making mistakes (mostly in DS around 8 per test) questions. I dont think the errors are becuase i'm going too fast. I think there are more trap DS questions in challenges than GMAT prep or OG. I mean, there is no doubt these questions are good .... but they are testing more on trap situations than the Mathematical concepts....

Does anyone else feel the same way....

Test Correct Total % Correct Mean time Percentile
m01 --- 29 --- 37 --- 78.4% -- 1m 10s -- 84.3%
m02 --- 27 --- 37 --- 73.0% -- 1m 18s -- 47.3%
m24 --- 28 --- 37 --- 75.7% -- 1m 18s -- 73.3%
m25 --- 28 --- 36 --- 77.8% -- 1m 14s -- 73.9%

Yes, I agree that the GMAT Club tests have a lot of traps in them. But that's one of the benefits of GMAT Club tests...the real GMAT has a bunch of tricks also, and if you can get good at catching those traps in the GMAT Club Challenges, you'll do very well on the actual GMAT. And yes, neither the challenges or the real GMAT really test any sophisticated mathematical principles...that's why it's so important to get good at recognizing the traps.

Hi everybody,
Today I worked on the m25 of the challenge series and scored a pathetic 8.7 percentile. I made 19 questions correct out of 37 (three of them silly mistakes though) and pretty much devastated by my performance. So far I have finished OG-11 and MGMT math series. In OG I was consistently having 85% questions correct but looking at this test I am completely confused. Does that mean I am missing something big time?
Please suggest me how to build my math foundations right. Where can I get all the math concept solidly explained?
thanks all
suba

I ought to say Challenges are great!
And, IMO, very similar to nowadays GMAT quant section.

My results (percentiles):

m01 99.1%
m02 94.5%
m03 100%
m04 96.0%
m05 100%
m06 100%

Real GMAT q49. Screwed up a bit...

Real GMAT 50

Test Correct Total % Correct Mean time msec Percentile
m01 32 37 86.5% 1m 55s 11505 96.3%
m02 34 37 91.9% 1m 35s 9535 97.8%
m03 32 37 86.5% 1m 55s 11588 92.5%
m04 33 37 89.2% 1m 48s 10845 98.7%
m05 31 37 83.8% 1m 59s 11988 94.7%
m06 31 36 86.1% 1m 59s 11990 93.1%
m07 31 37 83.8% 1m 45s 10524 90.5%
m08 28 37 75.7% 1m 49s 10933 86.4%
m09 29 37 78.4% 1m 20s 8033 92.6%
m10 31 37 83.8% 1m 43s 10353 94.6%
m11 30 37 81.1% 1m 25s 8551 83.3%
m12 32 37 86.5% 1m 46s 10688 93.3%
m13 31 37 83.8% 1m 38s 9872 92.0%
m14 33 37 89.2% 1m 38s 9811 100.0%
m23 36 37 97.3% 1m 40s 10081 100.0%
m24 31 37 83.8% 1m 22s 8249 93.3%

Test--Correct--Total--% Correct--Percentile
m01 29 37 78.4% 84.3%
m02 36 37 97.3% 100.0%
m03 34 37 91.9% 97.0%
m04 29 37 78.4% 77.6%
m05 31 37 83.8% 94.7%
m06 29 36 80.6% 89.7%
m07 31 37 83.8% 90.5%
m08 28 37 75.7% 86.4%

Real GMAT q50