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Forum Quiz is a good resource to practice quat questions (topic wise). A topic-wise practice will help to find out the weak areas.
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This actually makes a lot of sense given how quant prep goes after a certain point. You hit a ceiling where raw practice stops helping, and mistakes don't come from lack of knowledge anymore.

What you're describing sounds less like a skill problem and more like an execution problem. You know the content -- the CAT prep made sure of that. But somewhere in the GMAT Focus environment, something is slipping: maybe rushing in the final 5-6 questions, maybe misreading the question stem, maybe solving for the wrong thing.

When I was prepping, I hit a similar wall around the 85th percentile. What actually fixed it wasn't more practice questions. It was spending a week doing slower, more deliberate review of my error log. Every wrong answer had a root cause -- and for me, most "silly errors" were actually the same two patterns: not re-reading what the question asked before marking the answer, and doing arithmetic without writing intermediate steps.

For GMAT Focus specifically, the Problem Solving section can punish careless reading hard. The questions are constructed so that if you solve almost the right thing, you'll see your "wrong" answer in the choices. So you feel confident and move on.

One concrete thing that helped me: after solving each quant question, I'd ask "did I answer the actual question, not just solve the math?" That one habit knocked out a surprising number of errors.

Don't stop practicing quants entirely, but maybe shift from high-volume practice to slower, annotated practice for a week or two. Quality over quantity at this stage.
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Man, the GMAT Focus adaptive algorithm can feel like a total black box sometimes. If you felt great during the section but the score came back way lower than expected, it’s usually down to a couple of high-value penalties—like missing a string of easier questions early on or leaving questions blank at the very end. The algorithm punishes pacing issues incredibly harshly compared to just getting hard questions wrong. Don't let it get in your head too much!
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You might be missing some basic concepts , look at them once and try to cool down while marking , some times i do re-read the question before marking , it did helped me a lot
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I am having a situation with the quants section which should not have ideally happened.

So quants is my strongest section and having already prepared for CAT in past, it has been a cake walk for me. When I started preparing for GMAT I was scoring consistently in the range of 87-90. But since some time my performance has dipped and now I'm scoring in the range of 82-85. Most mistakes are just silly errors and the more I try to practice now, more it seems to get bad. I don't understand what to do now. Should I just stop practicing quants and focus on other sections or is there something I am doing wrong?
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Hello GMATClub family,
I am having a situation with the quants section which should not have ideally happened.

So quants is my strongest section and having already prepared for CAT in past, it has been a cake walk for me. When I started preparing for GMAT I was scoring consistently in the range of 87-90. But since some time my performance has dipped and now I'm scoring in the range of 82-85. Most mistakes are just silly errors and the more I try to practice now, more it seems to get bad. I don't understand what to do now. Should I just stop practicing quants and focus on other sections or is there something I am doing wrong?
There is nothing called , good at once and bad again, it might be because you are stressed , or you might be missing some basic steps,
tip: before marking read the question once again
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