Hello to all of you. For a while I have been lurking around on this forum, mainly to get acquainted with the features of the GMAT and also to try some of the hard questions which have been posted on here. Finally, I have decided to subscribe.
What pushes me mostly is assessing whether I am prepared to take the exam. I state in advance that I have high expectations, I would like to take the test only with a high probability of scoring a 730 or at least 700+. I have been studying the
OG completely (unfortunately I could not be very rigorous with my studying schedule, since in the last month I started working on a job which took me a large amount of time). Yesterday I decided to assess my level taking one of the free CATs which come with the GMATPrep software. Turns out my score was fine:
IR: 8 (92th perc.)
Verbal: 46 (99th perc.)
Quant: 49 (83th perc.)
Total: 770 (99th perc.)
Ok, when I read 770 I was so positively upset that I couldn't come to believe that the GMATPrep CAT I took was not representative of how I would perform at the real thing. Let me say that what makes me very puzzled is the 46V I scored (5 wrong answers), since English is not my native language and also I don't feel I master the English language (I know that GMAT doesn't test deep knowledge of English, but for instance I am not super fast at reading, etc.). The 49Q instead is not a great surprise and I feel I could take it further, I answered 10 questions wrong (!!!) and I think I could do better, especially because I am a Physics graduate (I feel a bit ashamed of having missed so many questions
).
So the main question is: should I give this 770 any importance at all? I know that one way to gauge it would be taking the other GMATPrep CAT and see if I can reproduce the same score and indeed that's what I am going to do. I would just like to know whether people with tough experiences on the GMAT could advise me on this, especially in the light of my 730 target. Moreover, any personal story about comparisons between GMATPrep CATs and the GMAT test is definitely welcomed
.
I know this is probably an inflated topic, but I could only find threads dating back a while. I wonder whether things may have changed during last years, with the GMATPrep CATs becoming less challenging than the exam.
Thank you in advance guys!
- F.