What's a good Question Bank score?

[angmyt]

I am trying to gauge my overall understanding and ability to work with the material in a particular area by doing the question bank questions after I finish with a book and all the OG/Quant Review questions. What is a good score out of 25 with a timed test?

I am not sure what to think of my results. I got over 50% of the 700-800 level questions right but I spent on avg of 5 mins on those questions. Is that something worth doing on the real exam? I then rush through the last 5 questions and I also make careless mistakes on some low level questions, giving me only 14/25 correct, of which 4 questions I got wrong were careless mistakes. I did the questions with 50 mins for 25 questions.

Thanks!

[StaceyKoprince]

No, you don't want to spend that kind of time on questions on the real test - your score will drop a lot at the end.

The question banks are not set up to be adaptive, so I can't give you an idea of a "good" score or how that would translate into a real test score. You'll need to use the practice tests to gauge that.

When you're practicing GMAT-format questions, do try to hold yourself to the timing constraints. It's good that you timed yourself overall but, as you found, you still have some work to do in terms of the per-question timing. You're going to have to learn how to cut yourself off. :)

Read these two articles and start doing what they say:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... to-win-it/
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... nt-part-1/