Stuck in 650. How to improve from now on?

Hi crmarschner,

To start, what were your Quant and Verbal Scores on each of your CATs/mocks? I ask because 'ranges' of numbers don't provide much context for how you've scored from CAT-to-CAT; there might be patterns to your performances - or big 'swings' - and we need to define that information to properly plan out how you should approach this next phase of your studies.

In addition, "review" is an exceptionally important part of the GMAT training process; your ability to define WHY you're getting questions wrong is essential to defining the areas that you need to work on (and the specific things that you need to 'fix'). Since the most realistic CATs available are the 6 from GMAC, I'd like to know a bit more about the GMATPrep3 CAT that you took on September 27th. While a full Mistake Tracker would provide a lot more information, there are some basic questions that you should be able to answer (and the more EXACT you can be with your answers, the better):

After reviewing each section of this recent CAT, how many questions did you get wrong....
1) Because of a silly/little mistake?
2) Because there was some math/verbal that you just could not remember how to do?
3) Because the question was too hard?
4) Because you were low on time and had to guess?
5) How many Verbal questions did you 'narrow down to 2 choices' but still get wrong?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich