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Holy crap...MGMAT CAT... [#permalink]
 09 Jun 2007, 12:45
I just took the MGMAT CAT and got a 460...  
I'm really disappointed because  I have been studying for a month. I also did a lot of the problems in the OG and on average have been getting about 80-90% of them correct!
I'm guessing it has a lot to do with timing. When I do problems on the club or do them in the OG I just solve them til I get an answer, so essentially I give myself no time limit. Also there were a few Q's where I meant to put one answer but accidently pressed a different one. But I doubt that would have done much to my score had I not done that.
I feel like I'm at a loss  because I thought I would have scored much higher than this. Im going to take the online MGMAT class in 2weeks, but I shoot I dunno what to make of my situation...
Any advice???
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Did you review your questions and find out what type of questions you got wrong ? what was your Q/V breakout ?
460 --> there must be something wrong with your studying habits.
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29 Q, 26V.
I got screwed on Q. Cause I took too much time on the beg. questions and had to guess on 8problems.
Interestingly, I didn't do so bad on the more difficult problems. Of the ones ranging from 500-700 I got 9 right and 6 wrong (Not great, but better than i expected). What did shock me was that I missed (Including the guesses) 6 of the easier problems (300-500)... yikes!
Verbal: Looks like CR took its toll on me, oddly I usally get 95% of these correct in the OG.
SC I did better than excepted. RC def. could have done better, I made some pretty dumb mistakes.
I don't have the time right now to go over the entire test. Will do that later on tonight.
WOULD you recommend that when I practice problems that I give myself a time limit from now on?
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Holy crap...MGMAT CAT... [#permalink]
25 Jun 2007, 11:59
I wouldn't worry about the low score since it's just a diagnostic test. I got a 470 on my diagnostic test (9% on my math ) and, after only 2 weeks of studying, I raised my score to a 560 (52% on math). I'm confident you (or anyone else) who puts in the time can expect the same results.
Also, I'm currently enrolled in an MGMAT course and I must say that I am very pleased. The instructors are brilliant (at least with this GMAT stuff) and the workbooks are excellent.
Good Luck!
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Well its been about a month of the MGMAT class and I took my second CAT today...
I scored a 640! I couldn't believe it, I thought I was doing so poorly. Not to my suprise that I got a lot of the problems wrong, but the problems I did were the more difficult 600-700 and 700-800 problems. Only once did I go down to a 300-500. This was only on the verbal section. Kinda weird to since I got the two problems b/f it correct.
I scored a 47 on quant and 31 on verbal. I think my quant is a little high, I guessed correctly on quite a few quant's. Maybe 4or5. but in turn I guessed incorrectly on several as well. Some of the quants there is just NO WAY I could have done some of them in the time allowed. I had to guess.
Verbal, not sure wut happened there. MGMAT courses are awsome, but we really haven't done any CR probs. just drilling. I don't really like their approach, but I don't have a better one.
Neway, hard work pays off. I'm takin the rest of the night off.
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I hope you are doing GMATPrep exams
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Re: Holy crap...MGMAT CAT... [#permalink]
27 Jul 2007, 20:56
GMATBLACKBELT wrote: I just took the MGMAT CAT and got a 460... I'm really disappointed because I have been studying for a month. I also did a lot of the problems in the OG and on average have been getting about 80-90% of them correct! I'm guessing it has a lot to do with timing. When I do problems on the club or do them in the OG I just solve them til I get an answer, so essentially I give myself no time limit. Also there were a few Q's where I meant to put one answer but accidently pressed a different one. But I doubt that would have done much to my score had I not done that. I feel like I'm at a loss because I thought I would have scored much higher than this. Im going to take the online MGMAT class in 2weeks, but I shoot I dunno what to make of my situation... Any advice??? Well I think I got you beat...
I took the MGMAT CAT #1 in June and got 720 (40Q/51V), then I took the MGMAT (NON-CAT) #2 and got 540 (25Q/39V).
WTH? Anyone have experience with the MGMAT non CAT exams?
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I haven't taken the non CAT MGMAT tests but I just took MGMAT CAT 3 and I had a question on the scoring. Next to the raw scores it lists the percentile rank. I ended up with Q47 - 81% V-51 -99%. The quant percentage doesn't really correspond with the GMAT Scores portion of this site. i.e. 81% is listed as a 36. I know that GMAT prep are the best CAT, but I'm waiting until 2 weeks before my test (8/17) before taking them. Should I just go ahead and plug in a 36 for Quant?
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shmegs wrote: I haven't taken the non CAT MGMAT tests but I just took MGMAT CAT 3 and I had a question on the scoring. Next to the raw scores it lists the percentile rank. I ended up with Q47 - 81% V-51 -99%. The quant percentage doesn't really correspond with the GMAT Scores portion of this site. i.e. 81% is listed as a 36. I know that GMAT prep are the best CAT, but I'm waiting until 2 weeks before my test (8/17) before taking them. Should I just go ahead and plug in a 36 for Quant?
Don't treat GMATPrep like a dainty lady/gentlemen! Did you know that there are 400 questions of medium to hard difficulty in GMATPrep? That's enough for 10 exams! Best of all, there are all posted here on gmatclub
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shmegs wrote: I haven't taken the non CAT MGMAT tests but I just took MGMAT CAT 3 and I had a question on the scoring. Next to the raw scores it lists the percentile rank. I ended up with Q47 - 81% V-51 -99%. The quant percentage doesn't really correspond with the GMAT Scores portion of this site. i.e. 81% is listed as a 36. I know that GMAT prep are the best CAT, but I'm waiting until 2 weeks before my test (8/17) before taking them. Should I just go ahead and plug in a 36 for Quant?
That's my strategy as well. I'd like to save the GMAT PREP CATs towards the end. I"m told the MGMAT CATs are very close to the actual GMAT (+ or - 25 points but I think GMAT PREP will provide the most accurate results.
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The reason I'm waiting is to take the GMAT Prep CATs is to ensure that I won't see any repeat Qs on the test. I know that they have a large Q bank, but since there are only 2 tests I want to make sure that the scores are an accurate representation of what I may get on the real test. I always seem to run out of time on the quant section, 10 minutes for 6 questions at the end so I don't want to get a false sense of security if I see a couple of repeat Qs on an exam. At this point I'm just going to ignore the scores and focus on why I answered certain questions incorrectly.
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there is a post on how to extract maximum questions from GMATPrep, may be posted by rhyme. I have seen it somewhere in the forum. You can search for it.
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trahul4 wrote: there is a post on how to extract maximum questions from GMATPrep, may be posted by rhyme. I have seen it somewhere in the forum. You can search for it.
Here's the post...
http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... =gmat+prep
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Yup that's a better post, thanks for the link.
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