GMAT Prep I - 740 (46Q, 46V)

This score must be skewed, since I'm taking this for the 3rd time.

OG-12 - 240 questions later

I've completed 240 questions on PS and DS from the OG-12. So far, I've made 26 mistakes on PS and 38 mistakes on DS. My percentages:

PS: 94/120 - 76%

DS: 82/120 - 68%

Progress in days 21, 20 and 19 - OG Sets 5, 6 & 7

Day 21

PS - 12/15 - 80% mistakes: 81, 82, 83

DS - 8/15 - 53% - mistakes: 76, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90

Day 20

PS - 12/15 - 80% mistakes: 97, 98, 102

DS - 10/15 - 66% - mistakes: 94, 97, 98, 101, 105

Day 19

PS - 12/15 - 80% mistakes:106, 113, 116

DS - 9/15 - 60% - mistakes: 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 120

Knewton CAT 1 - 640 (38Q, 42V)

I took the Knewton CAT 1 today. 640 is an improvment over the 590 a few weeks back. On reviewing, I saw that I had made a lot of silly mistakes and also there were a few problems for which the approach was wrong. I made 7 mistakes in DS and 5 mistakes in PS. On two questions, I didn't even read the question properly and made mistakes in DS. Should be careful next time. Verbal was a breeze, in contrast with the passages of Kaplan. On the whole, Knewton was not a stressful experience. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not reviewing the verbal mistakes, but focusing only on quant.

Kaplan CAT 1 - 570 (36Q, 32V)

I took the first Kaplan CAT from the CD. Did a really bad job on verbal, since I took it too lightly and only later did I realize that I hadn't being paying attention to timing. Had to guess on a whole RC passage and 2 other questions.

Progress in days 25 and 24 - OG Set 4

Did 60 problems in two days. Scores dropping. Must be because I'm working on 600-700 range problems now.  My scores for OG-12 set 4:

PS - 20/30 - 66% mistakes: 48, 49, 50, 56, 60, 63, 66, 67, 69, 73

DS- 20/30 - 66% - mistakes: 48, 49, 56, 61, 62, 64, 65, 70, 72, 73

Progress in days 27 and 26 - OG Set 3

Could only complete the 50 problems in two days. Still in the red zone. Would really like to get over 85% in both, to consider myself in the safe zone.  My scores for OG-12 set 3:

PS - 20/25 - mistakes: 27, 28, 38, 39, 41 - 80%

DS- 20/25 - mistakes: 24, 27, 32, 37, 41 - 80%

Progress in day 28 - OG Set 2

PS - 10/10 - 100%

DS -  7/10 - mistakes: 11, 14, 18 - 70%

CR - 10/10 - 100%
SC - 9/10 - mistakes: 14 - 90%

RC - 14/14 - 100%

Change in Strategy - Over to Quant

I was thinking about my GMAT performance and the fact that I hadn't taken a single practice test the whole of last week, when I realized that I haven't being paying attention to the area I was weak in: Quant. I like verbal, especially SC and CR and I keep working on them when I have free time. This isn't going to get me anywhere. When I see people with 47Q thinking about a re-take since their quant score isn't above 80%, where would I be, with a quant score in the higher 30s or lower 40s? So I will work on 25 PS and 25 DS on the OG-12 and then, only after I've covered the entire quant sections in the OG-12 and the entire OG Math Review, will I go back to verbal. Right now, I'm not worried about my timing on verbal. I manage to complete the verbal section with about 30 minutes to go. Though I'm not as accurate as I would like to be, I can live with it for now. Here is my percentage in the Manhattan GMAT CAT 1 and 2 that inspired this decision.

MGMAT - CAT 1

MGMAT - Free CAT

Kaplan Section Tests

I have the following section tests to be done:

SC - 1 test
CR - 2 tests
RC - 2 tests
PS - 5 tests
DS - 3 tests

Kaplan Section Tests - Set 2

Started off with the Kaplan Section Test 2 on SC. What's with me? Not getting the level of perfection yet. Of course, Kaplan gave me a tip on where I was making those mistakes.All the in same area! Ugh! Also, another nice feature about the Kaplan tests is that it also gives you an indication of whether you did a switch of the answers, and the answer choice that you switched from. I think that's cool because I can go back and review the questions on which I had to choose between two answer choices (which must have both sounded right).

SC - 19/22 - 86%

Kaplan Section Tests - Set I

Took four section tests from the Kaplan CD and here are the results:

SC: 19/22 – 86%

CR: 14/16 – 87%

RC: 13/18 – 72%

PS: 14/16 – 87%

Progress in Day 29 - OG-12 Set 1

Wow! I've wasted 3 days. 32, 31 and 30. Guests at home. Reminds me of the quote "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans". Anyways, I did the first 50 questions on OG-12, 10 from each section. These were so much easier when compared to the diagnostic, since they were from the easy bin.

PS - 8/10 - mistakes: 8, 9 - 80%

DS -  8/10 - mistakes: 1, 3 - 80%

CR - 10/10 - 100%
SC - 9/10 - mistakes: 4 - 90%

RC - 10/11 - mistakes: 5 - 90%

OG Diagnostic Percentages

Problem Solving - 14/24 - 58%

Data Sufficiency - 13/24 - 54%

Critical Reasoning - 8/17 - 47%

Sentence Correction - 13/18 - 72%

Reading Comprehension - 13/17 - 76%