Percents Practice

To help you focus on one topic at a time, you can use BTG's tagging feature. For example, here are all of the questions tagged as percents questions: https://www.beatthegmat.com/forums/tags/ ... c/percents

Also, we have a free FDP module (which we call Arithmetic on our site) with free FDP-related videos and practice questions here - https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat-arithmetic

Cheers,
Brent

Hi sgraves,

How did you score on this recent CAT (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?

As far as your Quant performance is concerned:
1) How many questions did you get wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
2) How many questions did you get wrong because you couldn't remember how to do the 'math' involved?
3) How many questions did you have to rush on at the end (because you were low on time)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Hi sgraves,

The MGMAT CATs are generally regarded by many Test Takers as being a bit tougher than the GMAC CATs (and by extension, the Official GMAT). However, your own analysis puts the focus on silly/little mistakes (and not on any specific content area). The easiest way to eliminate little mistakes from your work is to 'up' the amount of note-taking (and work that you do on the pad). Since most Quant questions are actually not that difficult to answer, YOU have to be committed to doing the necessary work to avoid those mistakes and pick up all of those correct answers/points. The good news is that the work is usually pretty easy to do; the bad news is that you must be rigorous with your commitment to do that work (for the entirety of the GMAT - 4 hours).

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

sgraves wrote: 1) How many questions did you get wrong because of a silly/little mistake? 18 - this also includes questions that could of used TEST IT/ TEST the Answers

If silly mistakes are hurting your score, then it's important that you identify and categorize these mistakes. Some examples might include:
- sloppy writing causes a 7 to mysteriously turn into a 1
- you forget that a question is an EXCEPT question.
- you fail to notice crucial information such as x is an integer or w < 0.
- you calculate Pat’s current age when the question asked for the Pat’s age 5 years from now.
- and so on

Once you have identified the types of mistakes that YOU typically make, you will be able to spot situations/questions in which you're prone to making errors.

I write about this and other strategies in the following article: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/avo ... teaks-gmat

Cheers,
Brent