| All Reviews > [Tests] GMAT Club Reviews |
REVIEWER IDENTITY VERIFIED by membership [?]
I found the GMAT club tests to be extremely useful during my GMAT preparation, mainly because I had a variety of questions that would not be similar but not the same that I would get during my CAT's.
I experienced difficulty solving 700+ questions, I found out some of them were extremely difficult and even the Q&A of the questions was not clear enough to understand the steps to solve them. Anything under 700+ are very good practice questions, My recommendation is that if you need extra material go for them, otherwise they are not a must have for a GMAT taker.
I have used gmatclub tests along with the question banks on gmatclub. I found the quant questions to be of really good quality. You can track your progress and come back to write the exam later on. The interface is the closest to that of the real GMAT exam. This will prepare you for the real exam because you will be in the test-taking mode due to practising in a familiar format and get used to solving questions. You can also reset the questions and make your own tests according to the topic you want to write the test on. For Verbal tests, you might want to practise a bit more from other sources because the Verbal tests are only 9. As for Quant, gmatclub tests are amazing.
GMAT Club is an aggregation of students and Test prep companies. GMAT Club just like all Forums is having two sides. One side which provides free information to students, and the other side is about promoting or demoting Test prep companies.
Students should be very attentive in all these forums because they are actually creating a pseudo world to promote the partner Test prep companies.
Points to check:
1. GMAT Club is a partner to many Test Prep namely e-GMAT & EmpowerGMAT. Basically it means that the forum acts as a front-end of theses firms.
2. There is a saying: For someone to win, others have to lose. GMAT Club also do the same thing. If there are 10 good reviews and 5 bad reviews about their partner, then all 5 bad reviews would be removed. And in case of the companies which are not their partners, all good reviews would be removed to paint them in bad light.
3. Simple rule of Business: If you are commercially involved with Test prep companies, then in no way you can be Honest.
4. Verified Reviews: The simple analogy is a “Robber guarding a Bank and asking us to believe his honesty”.
5. The idea of these forums is to control the information and promote their partners and also getting commissions.
6. Many times, we see their moderators also promoting their partners and also saying bad things about others. You can see all sort of examples in these forums where you will feel that moderators are creating a false world for students.
7. Founder “BB” can be seen in many discussions speaking good about GMAT Club Partners and speaking against others.
8. Test Prep companies Reviews are removed and Reviewers are also banned, to promote their partners namely e-GMAT & empowerGMAT.
The EPGP program has been developed for a different audience.
It is designed for students of management who can directly apply their learning in a leadership role in the industry and sponsored candidates may be preferred. Academically it's almost as demanding as a PGP but with more casework and class discussion. There are still exams and quizzes each month and the placement is rigorous for mid level roles in industry.
The program leaves the studying to you so it's on you to build a takeaway for yourself.
It is at par with all other 1 year full time MBA programs in India, such as ISB, IIMA PGPX and IIMC PGPEX.
I loved using these GMAT Club tests because they work as tools to help improve test time management. The verbal questions are quite representative of official questions.
I would suggest use these later on in your preparation period, once you have covered basics material and completed some practice material.
The Quant tests are a bit more challenging, but its good to go through them to see challenging questions.
I used these tests as practice material when I had exhausted Official Test Prep materials. Use them to hone your time management.
Thanks to GMAT Club for putting together such great practice material of all the test takers out there.
While the verbal tests might not be the best out there, the Quant tests are to kill for! The Quant questions are WAY harder than the actual GMAT level - and that's the best part! If you can comfortably answer questions here, you'll have a minimum of Q49 in your pocket and a Q50 (or a Q51 even) on your best day.
There is also the community replies and discussions which make it easier to understand how most people go about solving questions in the shortest time possible.
On a whole, I would 10/10 recommend the Quant tests. 8/10 recommend the verbal. Good Luck!
These tests are super flexible, you can select between 500s, 600s & 700s questions.
After taking a custom quiz, post-quiz analysis offer great insights which can highlight conceptual problems, time spent on each question and average time spent. This can significantly help a test taker to understand the topics that need more work.
I highly recommend these tests for new joiners & test takers who have started or completed preparing for GMAT.
Number of questions on a test can also be controlled which means you can take a full 31 question test or take smaller tests depending upon the time you have.
I found the build a quiz feature really helpful to review the incorrectly answered questions.
Quant questions are up to the mark, with 700+ level questions imitating the hardness level as faced during the test day. CATs user interface and the timer resembles the actual test interface and thus provides a before hand feel of the actual test setting thus minimizing the 'surprise factor' on the actual test day. Instead of having a separate question pool for each test, GMAT Club tests have a very large single pool of questions, thus there is no reason to reset each individual test. Unique questions and each question has its own analytics and shows you details about your performance and also that of other test takers.
Highly recommended.
I started preparing for GMAT exam and found GMATClub.com as a very useful website and specially liked its discussion on questions including OG questions. Then I got an opportunity to try GMAT Club tests for 7 days after subscribing to its Youtube channel. Later I joined GMATclub premium membership and got access for 6 months. In the meantime, I won e-GMAT online course as a prize for winning Game of timers (GOT) competition. With the combination of GMATclub tests and e-GMAT course, my verbal score improve from early V20's to V45 recently. My quant score also improved from Q40's to Q51. Quality of quant questions in GMATclub tests was very good. Many of them were of 700-level difficulty. I got 690 in my first GMAT attempt and I scored Q50 in quant and V34 in verbal. I noticed that quality of GMATclub quant questions was more difficult than actual GMAT questions. I did not face any difficulty in facing quant questions in GMAT and finished the quant portion of the test 10-20 minutes earlier than scheduled time.
I recommend GMATclub tests for improvement in quant section of GMAT.
Amazing resource to use to study for the GMAT exam. It has the same question styles as well as the timer that replicate the real GMAT exam environment. The timing has several mode including untimed or timed and can be paused in the middle of the exam. This helps when I need to stop in the middle of the test to do errands but it can also be used in the real testing mode which accurately represents the real testing conditions. After the test, I can easily review my answers with official explanation of why my mistakes were wrong and gives an overall breakdown of the different sections. Overall very useful tool to help practice for the GMAT.
Yes. Thanks for sharing your idea.
How much were you scoring on the GMATclub tests ?