When students start prepping for a standardized exam a good first step is to assess ability level.  Grockit students accomplish this by taking a diagnostic test shortly after they sign up.  From there students need to know where to focus their study time and how they are progressing.  Today, we released a feature that displays student progress over time.  This new feature is best explained with an example.

The screenshot to the right shows the GMAT Achievements for a particular student.  Please notice the purple badge about half-way down that indicates this student took a verbal diagnostic on 8/11/2009 and scored in the 91^st percentile of all Grockit GMAT students.  A score this high indicates this student has high ability in the verbal section of the GMAT exam.  The next day she took a quantitative diagnostic and only scored in the 51^st percentile.  Knowing there was plenty of room to improve in this subject of the exam she began to focus a majority of her study time on practicing quantitative questions.

You can see that every few weeks she took a quantitative challenge to get an updated assessment of her ability level.  She steadily improved all the way to the 94^th percentile by time she took her last challenge.

This student should now feel confident about doing well in the quantitative section of the GMAT and may begin to balance her study time more evenly with the verbal section.  This optimization of study time is of great benefit to test takers.  Stay tuned to our blog to learn about future feature releases that help students in a similar way.