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01 Jan 2010, 22:00

glad to have seen someone else get a lower score with Knewton. Their test seemed alternatively way too easy and not adaptive.

Their trial class format however is awesome in my opinion--particularly compared to the other I just did which was Princeton Review (such a bad interface with no control, I just quit halfway through). Suspect I'll pay for Knewton though I had planned to just self-study.

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01 Jan 2010, 23:46

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james12345 wrote:

glad to have seen someone else get a lower score with Knewton. Their test seemed alternatively way too easy and not adaptive.

Their trial class format however is awesome in my opinion--particularly compared to the other I just did which was Princeton Review (such a bad interface with no control, I just quit halfway through). Suspect I'll pay for Knewton though I had planned to just self-study.

Keep an eye out for discounts on Knewton - they just had one that ended on 12/31 ($100 off). This is the end of GMAT season, so I suspect they'll have another one in a few weeks.
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02 Jan 2010, 00:16

thanks. not sure it's worth the wait. on another note, just finished 4tests.com's practice gmat. what a waste. clearly not adaptive, far too easy. got 51 out of 52 correct, and I ain't that good yet.

oh wait--in an hour gmatclub's tests are free. I'll wait at least till sunday to buy knewton

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13 Jan 2010, 07:17

Hi!
I've done the first Gmat prep test and i've scored 740. Then i've tried 2 manhattan gmat tests and scored 680 and 690. Is it possible that manhattan gmat tests are thougher or simply i was lucky on gmat prep test?
Anyway tomorrow i'm gonna take the second gmat prep and on friday i've the real gmat. Hope to score high but i'm a bit worried after manhattan gmat tests!!

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13 Jan 2010, 13:36

I will rather say..write all these tests and take them as practice test. Do not worry about the scores. Just analyze the questions after the test

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15 Jan 2010, 11:59

Manhattan (online) -- what you mean by manhattan online. I found only 25X3 verbal question bank and online tests. Is there any big unlimited online verbal question book? I think I should practice a lot to improve(because I am bit weak in verbal and I can get 49 in math even when I am drunk).

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18 Jan 2010, 21:13

Amazing place. I just started looking to taking GMAT, and found this place to be as informative/useful as anyone of them out there. Thanks so much.

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31 Jan 2010, 14:41

Hi Guyz,
I have got PR Crack the gmat book and it says 4 full length practice tests online. But when i registered my book there, i can only see 1 practice test. Does anybody know if i am missing any links.

Thanks,
SM

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31 Jan 2010, 17:07

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cluelesss wrote:

Hi Guyz,
I have got PR Crack the gmat book and it says 4 full length practice tests online. But when i registered my book there, i can only see 1 practice test. Does anybody know if i am missing any links.

Thanks,
SM

You may be able to see only one at a time (MGMAT does it that way). I am not very familiar with PR approach, but try taking one and see if another one opens up.
The reason they do this sequential approach is to recycle questions :wink:

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23 Feb 2010, 16:22

cluelesss wrote:

Hi Guyz,
I have got PR Crack the gmat book and it says 4 full length practice tests online. But when i registered my book there, i can only see 1 practice test. Does anybody know if i am missing any links.

Thanks,
SM

you have to finish the first one to begin the next CAT exam.

edit: oops i realized bb answered you already.

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23 Feb 2010, 16:24

i want to add that after taking two Kaplan tests, i have concluded that they really made the 1st one more difficult than the 2nd... (at least that was my experience)... so i would recommend either doing your CATs from Kaplan backwards...

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25 Feb 2010, 01:36

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adalfu wrote:

i want to add that after taking two Kaplan tests, i have concluded that they really made the 1st one more difficult than the 2nd... (at least that was my experience)... so i would recommend either doing your CATs from Kaplan backwards...

Hi adalfu,

If you're referring to the CATs on our new online center, I'm afraid you're mistaken; our tests all draw from the same pool of questions, meaning the questions you saw on CAT 2 might have shown up on someone else's CAT 5!

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25 Feb 2010, 10:25

KapTeacherEli wrote:

adalfu wrote:

i want to add that after taking two Kaplan tests, i have concluded that they really made the 1st one more difficult than the 2nd... (at least that was my experience)... so i would recommend either doing your CATs from Kaplan backwards...

Hi adalfu,

If you're referring to the CATs on our new online center, I'm afraid you're mistaken; our tests all draw from the same pool of questions, meaning the questions you saw on CAT 2 might have shown up on someone else's CAT 5!

hey, awesome... thanks for clearing up my misconception! to be honest, i felt a bit biased after seeing how horrible i did relative to the 2nd exam... it might be that i just got "unlucky" or i just wasn't in the test taking mode at that time.

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27 Feb 2010, 14:16

As always, great post bb. Thanks for the updated TOCs etc.

Seems like just taking the CAT free tests + Gmat Club + MGMAT + GMAC / GMATPrep should be more than enough practise.

Also bb, read somewhere (I think it was your post actually) that one can get more than 2 tests out of GMATPrep. What is the link to that post?

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27 Feb 2010, 14:33

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abhattac5 wrote:

As always, great post bb. Thanks for the updated TOCs etc.

Seems like just taking the CAT free tests + Gmat Club + MGMAT + GMAC / GMATPrep should be more than enough practise.

Also bb, read somewhere (I think it was your post actually) that one can get more than 2 tests out of GMATPrep. What is the link to that post?

Here you go: gmatprep-gmat-prep-powerprep-power-prep-free-tests-77548.html
You basically take it over and over again. There are also 2 versions of GMAT Prep and one version of PowerPrep (first gen software that has a significant overlap with OG 11 and OG 12)
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11 Mar 2010, 11:38

thanks to all for sharing such a wonderful info

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11 Mar 2010, 11:44

I have take gmat club free test-math.
I must say that maths test content was very good.I learned many things

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15 Mar 2010, 20:34

bb wrote:

I would not spend much time or money on the last 5-10 and rather focus on the top 5

Hey bb,

Any thoughts on the accuracy of PR, I've been getting 700 on my MGMAT scores, a 660 on Kaplan (which is really more like a 700 in the real GMAT), and for the Practice GMAT online for Princeton, I got 640. Is this score understated?

I've seen some threads where they talked about the scoring is very similar to Kaplan, so a score below 700 should not be alarming. Even though the GMAT predictor says that 640 is very close to the real thing.

Thanks.

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15 Mar 2010, 23:08

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lunasea29 wrote:

bb wrote:

I would not spend much time or money on the last 5-10 and rather focus on the top 5

Hey bb,

Any thoughts on the accuracy of PR, I've been getting 700 on my MGMAT scores, a 660 on Kaplan (which is really more like a 700 in the real GMAT), and for the Practice GMAT online for Princeton, I got 640. Is this score understated?

I've seen some threads where they talked about the scoring is very similar to Kaplan, so a score below 700 should not be alarming. Even though the GMAT predictor says that 640 is very close to the real thing.

Thanks.

Not very familiar with PR test scoring. Been a while.
Try the GMAT Score Calculator; that's the best suggestion I have.
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22 Mar 2010, 13:03

Hi guys,
Thanks for creating this great website, I just randomly found it and I trying to prepare for my GMAT, really just started ...not sure where to start

Anyway you are using some acronym here such as "CAT", what does that stand for?
Thanks

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22 Mar 2010, 13:03

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