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I absolutely loved the GMAT club tests. I started off with a 35 in Q and by the end of 10 tests or so and a lot of studying I have had tests with scores of Q48 Q49 and Q50. The way the tests are written is fair, yet challenging. These tests are THE best way to ensure you are preparing solidy for the real GMAT. I recommend this to everyone who is serious about their study due to the tests consistency and quality. I was worried about my quant score before these tests but now I feel the confidence to approach test day ready to attack the exam rather than feeling scared of the quant section. THANK YOU GMAT CLUB!!! :)
I am an active member of Gmatclub since past 2 years. I have given gmat couple of times and used verbal as well as quant gmat club tests for my preparation.
Quant Gmat Test Review:
In my experience gmat club quant tests are true representative of real gmat tests in terms of logic and difficulty. However, overall difficulty level of quant test is higher than real test. so if some one is scoring 1-2 points below target score, its okay.
Verbal Test Review:
in my experience, i found verbal tests are better than other Non-official tests but still lack the level of artistry real gmat questions have. So, these tests are good to build stamina and get feel of the exam but should not be used to judge your performance to a greater degree of acuracy.
I'm giving it 5 stars out of 5 because i feel GMAT Club Tests are must for students who wants to score in the range of Q:49-51. The real GMAT Quant questions will become easy once a student completes all the tests since the questions are bit hard than the actual test. I feel this product is the ideal preparation tool for the Quant. In my opinion one must review thoroughly all the questions and try to understand the solution that Bunuel came up with. If one can do that I think on the actual test day Quant questions will become very easy.
Before purchasing the test pack, I tried the free CAT and ended up scoring a Q50. But my scores in the official mocks did not exceed Q48. I purchased the test pack. The questions now are more adaptive, and the tests are harder around the end. Would recommend the tests to any serious test taker desirous of scoring a Q49+. The interface mimics that of the actual tests. The analytics can be better. There is also a feature where you can input if you have guesseed the answer. But I'm skeptical about the analytics about "guessed answers" as not everyone would be keen on taking the time to manually input tick whether they had guessed it. Overall, it's a good test pack. You should buy it one month prior to the test date and look at taking one sectional a day.
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Being an Indian Engineer(Majority of Indians have engineering degree :P), I had this belief ingrained in my head that GMAT quant will be a cake walk and obviously this belief of mine was shattered when in my first OG Prep I could not even score a Q40! That's when I googled a lot about which test material will give me the best exposure and all fingers pointed to GMAT club tests. I would highly recommend these tests for Quants as they are the best match to the real GMAT test.The level of difficulty is an absolute match for the real GMAT(I feel). If you are scoring Q50+ in these then your actual Q50 is guaranteed. In a nutshell, this test bundle is worth every penny.
Verbal test - These are very good comprehensive tests, which will help to increase your Verbal score. The questions were similar to official GMAT questions. However, I recommend to take these test only after completing your basics in CR and SC.
Quant test - These tests helped me a lot to improve my score and provided a good chunk of questions similar to official ones. Taking a test daily one month before your GMAT exam will definitely help you to achieve your desire score.
I personally recommend to take these test and analysis it properly before appearing for GMAT . Do not just go on to complete the course, learn from your mistakes and then only take another test.
The GMAT Club Tests evaluate an aspirant on all fronts, covering each aspect from the wide pool of GMAT Club's question database.
The beauty of this test lies in emulating the similar nature of the algorithm as GMAT does.
However, the verbal questions are NOT up to the mark. They often lack the innate resoluteness (error-free nature) of the actual GMAT-Questions.
Nevertheless, 3 things will ALWAYS work in favor:
1) The user interface, explanations, and analytics are highly intuitive and paramount in deciding the weaker sections.
2) The test can be self-designed in several modes such as Test-mode, Quiz-mode, and Study-mode, providing more freedom to gauge and calibrate the preparation.
3) An aspirant can effortlessly assess himself/herself in the Quant questions and ascertain to the paths of Success!
Pros:
Overall very good for practice. These definitely help in improvement.
1) Enough in quantity(25). But here a con: verbal CATs are very few, though we need more of verbal CATs than quants.
2) Very good difficulty level((This is the best part)).
3) A Big database of Questions.
4) Good Solution and analytics.
5) Close interface to that of actual GMAT.
CONS:
1)GMAT Club tests are Computer-Based but they are not much adaptive. It means their front-end will look like a GMAT Test but the back-end adaptive algorithm is not based upon any adaptive base enough to approximate real GMAT.
2) Very few verbal tests.
3) Sectional tests do not give real test like feeling.
PS: I definitely recommend these tests to Aspirants.
GMAT Club tests are one of the best resource available in market for preparation, for Quant preparation you do not need any other resources. Quality of question is very good also number of quant tests are enough for preparation. The best part of GMAT club tests are question bank consists of more than 1000 question in quant, which makes this test unique and stand out from other test series available in market.
For verbal I think number of tests are not sufficient and GMAT CLUB needs to work on increasing questions in this section.
Overall test series is cost effective and very good source for preparation.
Although the questions are of supreme quality and hard, taking GMAT club test will be a good tool for the one's looking to get a Q51 on the test. GMAT club tests are very good and also hard compared to any other CAT tests and questions available.
One who get 50/51 in GMAT club tests will definitely get a Q51 in the original test. I would highly recommend to get the GMAT Club tests and practice your quants section.
I am not sure about the verbal part of the CAT, but if it is quants it is GMAT Club.
All the best.