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Beat The GMAT is a day-to-day blog detailing how I studied for and beat the Graduate Management Admission Test™ (GMAT). This site shall serve as a study guide for future GMAT test takers.



Day 8: Fun with PowerPrep CAT 1 Analysis


This evening I spent 3 hours meticulously going through each problem on yesterday's CAT exam and recording data onto this spreadsheet. For each question, I recorded: (1) the correct answer choice; (2) my pace on the question; (3) the result--correct or incorrect; (4) if I had an error/whether it was careless; and (5) the type of question (data sufficiency, critical reading, etc.). It was a tedious job, but I learned a lot from the results.

With regard to math, I was happy to find that nearly all the problems I got wrong were careless errors. Going through the test again today, I was able to solve virtually all of these questions through more careful reading. The few problems I couldn't solve because of lack of conceptual understanding have been identified through the use of this spreadsheet.

In my verbal section analysis, I found that I did very well in reading comprehension, only getting one of these questions wrong on the test. I also got several sentence correction questions wrong--mostly idioms. As for critical reading, most of my errors were careless; upon second glance it seems that I read through these passages too quickly.

I wish I could take credit for inventing this spreadsheet, but I have to give mega props to Ursula, a forum contributor who scored a 760 with the aid of this grid. For all the people practicing the GMAT out there, I recommend using this spreadsheet after completing any set of practice problems or practice tests. I'm certainly going to do so for now on.

SUMMARY OF DAY 8 WORK:
1. Recorded errors from previous day's CAT onto this spreadsheet.

RECAP OF DAY 8 INSIGHTS:
1. Make sure you do an analysis of your errors. It is tedious but very revealing.

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Blogger Soraya said at 6:03 AM

I hope you are still administrating this blog because I need your help. None of the links to the spreadsheet that are displayed on this spot work. Is there another way I can get a chance of what the sheet looks like?    



Blogger GMAT said at 3:58 PM

Hi Soraya:

Check out the Beat The GMAT Resource Wiki, http://www.beatthegmat.com/wiki/

You can find all the resources mentioned on this blog on that site.    



Anonymous Chris said at 1:23 PM

Man i took that test and you were right, PR sucks when it come to prep in the math. Granted i would classify myself as "math dyslektik" but i felt like i just started looking at math again when i took the gprep test.. However the poor score i got on this test is just a motivator to study harder and make sure i'm as prepared i can get come testime in 2 months    



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