How to Improve Your Accuracy on the GMAT

During the years we have spent helping students preparing for the GMAT, we have encountered many who are well-versed in GMAT concepts and have fairly strong GMAT-related skills and who, despite their knowledge and skills, continue to answer an inordinately high percentage of GMAT questions incorrectly.

To help these students, we tend to ask them for the work they have done on 50 GMAT practice questions. An analysis of such a student’s errors often reveals that the student either made a silly mistake or created a quagmire of disorganized calculations that led to an incorrect answer. In other words, these incorrect answers came from careless errors, a major problem for some test-takers.

In our eyes, careless errors are the worst mistakes a GMAT test-taker can make because it’s a shame not to get credit for a GMAT question that you know how to answer correctly. Careless mistakes can be maddening for people because these students know that they are capable of earning a high GMAT score–they are smart, savvy, hard-working, motivated, knowledgeable, and skilled–yet their GMAT scores don’t reflect their abilities, at least in part, because of the careless mistakes they make. Fortunately, careless mistakes are avoidable and can be drastically reduced or even eliminated with focus, proper strategy, and practice.

In this video, we’ll review common reasons people commit careless mistakes on the GMAT and outline steps that you can take to increase your accuracy.

Watch the video here.