Maintain an Error Log to Improve Your GMAT Score

Maintaining an error log is an effective method of identifying your skill gaps and ensuring that you systematically address them.

Maintaining a thorough error log entails keeping track of the types of questions you get wrong and the reasons for your mistakes. For example, if you are analyzing a quant question that you answered incorrectly, you might ask yourself the questions below:

Is it possible that I did not fully comprehend the content on which the question is based?
Was there a specific formula that I needed but could not remember?
Did I forget how to perform a specific mathematical task (for example, solving a quadratic equation)?
Did I misunderstand the question that was asked?
Did I fall for a trap answer choice?

Each time you identify a weakness in your math abilities, you move one step closer to your GMAT Focus target score. The more times you identify a weakness in your math abilities, the closer you’ll bring yourself to your score goal.

It’s critically important to analyze the results of practice tests or problem sets. To catch your errors, make sure to review each question you answered incorrectly and determine exactly what went wrong.

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Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep