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I have been an ardent follower of the gmat club forum and it has helped me out in multiple ways. be it any official question, best brief and detailed notes or just a best way to solve a question- my go to has always been the gmat club, hands down. Specially, for quant, if you refer to some of the pages like the one by bamuel which has detailed breakdown of each question solution, nothing is more helpful than that. I would recommend this to any one who is either starting off or is still struggling to get their hands on any subscription becuase all it takes is diligent followership.
Gmat club is the best way to improve your quant score. It is very effective if you are targeting a q49 q50 or even a q51. The level of gmat club test is a couple of notch higher than the actual gmat and this ensures that test day quant is smooth and relatively easy. There is also a quiz mode where in you can select the number of questions the level of the questions and the type of the question. This is very useful especially to improve and do a particular kind of questions in which you are weak. Also the tests coupled with explanation provided by bunnel and a forum to post all your doubts make gmat club tests a deadly combination. You can also reset the question pool and you get about 30+ quant tests more than that provided by another test company. So if you need a lot of quant practice than gmat club it is
The Verbal CATs of GMAT Club are tougher than what is presented in the exam. However, it is a very good source to understand what 700-800 level questions are like. I especially liked the explanations given to understand
1. How to break up a sentence in order to understand it's meaning
2. Identify the errors
I took a third gmat test and have got a v40 because of e-GMAT & GMAT Club Practice test. I am definitely gunning for more and I highly recommend that practice tests from GMAT Club are a must in order to understand your verbal ability and these questions help you improve to a decent level.
My Quant was improved to Q49 from my 1st to 2nd test and I maintained the level in my 3rd test as well. The Quant questions are representative of the ones in GMAT.
I highly recommend GMAT club for anyone who has a decent understanding of the concepts but wants to boost their score.
GMAT club tests are really great. It helped me understand how to solve tough questions but more than that it made me understand the concepts pretty well. It just gives you confidence showing how "tough" (which are actually tricky questions can be solved easily. This is the best test material u one can find for quants. It boosts your confidence and teaches you how to deal with tricky questions very efficiently. The explanations by Bunuel are the best thing you will find on quants and they never go out of syllabus. If i have to recommend one tool for quants to anyone taking GMAT. It will be these tests and quizzes.
At the outset i must tell you that there Quant section is tough and it's way tougher then actual GMAT.... Having said that, the 3 months of GMAT CLUB TESTS and quant wont be a problem in GMAT!!
I was scoring around 45 to 47 in other test series then i migrated to Gmat club test and when i took my first test my score plunged to 39 and I was disappointment as most of us would, but later on while reviewing it i released that i never thought of solving the questions the way it has been shown and from that moment on i forgot how bad or good i'm scoring but how i'm attempting the questions mattered.. and it helped me a lot in learning new things and which in turn helped me in scoring good in the following test.... So, if Quant is the problem then sign it and start the learning process..
I started to study with they after Some friends recomended it . These are really great source of study and the questions are very well explanined plus there is the forum discussion in wich are really helpfula and make you see real improvements. The CATs are excellent, they really simulate the test condition and help you to understand your weakness, wich is the most importatn part to understand if you want a high score. The stats shows your improvement and help you to focus on your needs in order to improve fast, my score raised about 100 points after I realize what were my weakens. The hard questions are exceptionally good and help you to achieve another level that makes you even better!
Really happy with my improvement!! Excelent choice!
These tests are unbelievable. They are the closest questions I have gotten to actual GMAT questions. In fact, they are slightly tougher, but not too tough as to make the questions unhelpful.
These questions make you work for every answer, even the 500 level problems. These questions are excellent practice for the real exam. Using the quizzes feature, I was able to improve from a Q38 to Q43 to Q47/48. Without these tests, I would not have been able to improve my quant score as much as I have.
Thank you to the entire GMAT Club team, especially Bunuel who has the best/most simple answer explanations I have ever come across.
GMAT club Quant tests are the best of the lot out there. But I must agree that these tests are a bit more harder than actual GMAT. In these tests you will get many more 700 level questions than in actual GMAT. Also 700 level questions pop up quite early in the tests. But having said that, I must also say that once you get used to the critical thinking required for solving these questions, 700 level questions in actual GMAT seems like a piece of cake. Just to give an example, I have never got more than 42-43 in GMAT club tests in quant. But in GMATPrep I always got 48-49. If not due to my silly mistakes, i would have hit 49-50 i almost all of the GMAT Preps I have given.
Coming to verbal tests, though they are not as GMAT-like as you will get in actual exam, but they are worth a practice. I used these mainly to enhance my time management skills and refine my verbal strategy.
The quant part of the CAT have the best questions that you will find anywhere. And it's not just the questions themselves, the explanations provided also help you uncover many shortcuts and help strengthen your core concepts. Admittedly, I found them to be a little harder than the GMAT quant questions, but that should help you be better prepared for the final test. And also, you can take the quant section or verbal section one at a time, which gives great flexibility when you are hard pressed for time.
Now the not so good thing about the tests... Although the questions themselves were top notch, the scoring algorithm seemed to be a little off. My quant scores in the CATs were a little spread out (45-50) and the hard questions keep coming at you from around the first 5 questions, which wouldn't usually happen in the real exam. So you might find yourself running out of time, but again, this should be good for practice.
And the really bad part about the tests? The verbal section! To me it was utter waste of time. I completed 3 verbal CATs and scored V30/31 in all of them (I'm really not that bad). Quite a few of the answers seemed debatable and few questions were not very GMAT like.
With all these pros and cons, I used my GmatClub tests subscription for 6 months and then I had renewed it for another 6 months. Simply because practicing the quant section really helped boost my confidence. The first time I got a Q50 in the GmatClub tests I felt like NOW i'm ready for the actual GMAT. I had used the GmatClub tests along with MGMAT/Veritas tests to practice the CATs, and I will suggest the same strategy to others appearing for the GMAT
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GMAT club's quantitative quizzes and questions are far beyond my expectation. The questions are categorized in nearly all main and tested topics of Problem Solving and Data Suffiency. They are also grouped in different level of difficulty so you can choose suitable questions to practice. The questions are designed to be most similar to real GMAT questions in terms of format, range of calculations, knowledge, etc. In summary, GMAT club's quantitative questions are undoubtedly the best questions to utilize for GMAT takers who expect to receive over 49 in real tests.
About verbal questions, they are not as sizable as quant ones. They are also grouped in different level of difficulty and different topics. However, verbal questions are also reliable to practice for GMAT takers.