Mistake Level - MGMAT Free Test and CAT 1

Though the count of the mistakes in both tests is fairly the same, in the MGMAT CAT 1, I noticed that I'm making more mistakes in the 700-800 range, except for DS and CR where I'm still making mistakes in the 600-700 range. This is one of the best features of the MGMAT tests, where they give a detailed analysis in the score report, so you know exactly where you stand.

	MGMAT Free Test	MGMAT CAT1
Quant
PS: Mistakes in 300-500       PS: Mistakes in 500-600:	0/2 - 0% 1/6 - 16%	- 0/2 - 0 %
PS: Mistakes in 600-700:	5/12- 41%	3/9 - 33%
PS: Mistakes in 700-800:	2/2 - 100%	8/11 - 72%
DS: Mistakes in 500-600:	2/5 - 40%	1/1 - 100%
DS: Mistakes in 600-700:	7/8 - 87%	4/6 - 66%
DS: Mistakes in 700-800:	2/2 - 100%	5/8 - 62%
Verbal
SC: Mistakes in 500-600:	-	0/4 - 0%
SC: Mistakes in 600-700:	3/9 - 33%	0/3 - 0%
SC: Mistakes in 700-800:	2/6 - 33%	4/8 - 50%
CR: Mistakes in 300-500:  CR: Mistakes in 500-600:	- 1/3 - 33%	0/1 - 0% 0/1 - 0%
CR: Mistakes in 600-700:	2/5 - 40%	4/5 - 80%
CR: Mistakes in 700-800:	3/6 - 50%	2/7 - 28%
RC: Mistakes in 300-500:	2/4 - 50%	0/2 - 0%
RC: Mistakes in 600-700:	1/2 - 50%	2/6 - 33%
RC: Mistakes in 700-800:	5/6 - 83%	3/4 - 75%

Knewton Diagnostic - Quant Mistake Category

Knewton Diagnostic - Verbal Mistake Category

All Practice Tests - Quant Mistake Categories

All Practice Tests - Verbal Mistake Categories

GMAT Test Analysis

Finally, I've done a consolidated analysis of the practice CATs that I've taken so far. One mistake I made was that I waited too long to log those mistakes into an excel sheet, which resulted in me spending the last two days fretting, putting all this stuff (4 Practice CATS) into an excel sheet and getting the pivot table generated  I couldn't include the Veritas Prep CAT (since it didn't give me a category of the mistakes) and my GMAT Prep data (lost this information because of a system re-install). Anyways, I'm thankful to Princeton Review and Manhattan GMAT for giving a nice breakup of the mistake categories, which made it easy to enter into the excel sheet and get the graph generated. If you might find this useful, here's the link!

All Practice Tests - Verbal Mistake Categories

All Practice Tests - Quant Mistake Categories

Some disturbing statistics

A week ago, Adekku sent me this link on Evaluating Practice Tests. Thanks Adekku!
I found some disturbing statistics from my last test.

1. Correct plus timing within the expected timeframe (otherwise known as strengths) - 16 Qns
2. Wrong plus timing in the expected timeframe (possible weaknesses) - 0 Qns
3. Wrong plus timing way too fast (an average more than 30 seconds faster than it should be) - 3 Qns
4. Correct plus timing way too slow (an average more than 30 seconds slower than it should be) - 7 Qns
5. Wrong plus timing way too slow (an average more than 30 seconds slower than it should be) - 6 Qns
6. Unanswered questions

My analysis is as follows:

• Category 1 - On 16 Qns, I spent a total of 21 minutes - 28% of my time on 43% Qns
• Category 2 - no questions that fall in this category
• Category 3 - On 3 Qns, I spent a total of 3 minutes 40 secs - About 5% of my time on 8% Qns
• Category 4 - On 7 Qns, I spent a total of 27 minutes 10 secs - About 36% of my time on 19% Qns
• Category 5 - On 6 Qns, I spent a total of  23 minutes 27 secs - About 30% of my time on 16% Qns
• Category 6 - 4 Questions unattempted - 10% unattempted.