I found the GMAT Error Logs to be a pretty interesting tool to use to correct the CATs I plan to start doing weekly. Though I wanted to put them into practice first, to see how they really work and if my assumption of them being a great tool made sense. I did therefore 2 timed short tests today (one Sentence Correction and one Data Sufficiency, 20 questions each) in order to use the log afterwards and see how it felt.
The first doubt that came to my mind is on when exactly is one supossed to record on the log the feeling while answering the question: is it during the test itself (I mean, between the questions) or you do this afterwards? If it is during the questions, it´s a bit time consuming and you lose precious time when you are working on a timed test. Plus it´s a bit distracting ... If it is afterwards, that works better, however you might slightly forget what the feeling was. So the "middle" point I found was just to do it afterwards, but recording on a small paper I had close to me the feeling.
The rest of the features are quite useful, specially for the "after-test" identification of type of errors and the rehearsal of the respective notes, it will be a very useful tool to identify the trends of weaknesses one presents ... and this brings me to my next point. Is it really needed to also record every correct answer, specially those were one answers correctly for the right reasons and in the right timing? Just thinking out loud, if one records only the mistakes and only the right questions that were either answered for the wrong reasons or were the concept was not so clear (whose number in my case tends to cero) you have a more focused Error Log and less work to do. In the end, you can infer that your strengths are those that do not appear of the grid as often of do not appear at all.
What do you think?