All GMAT CAT Practice Tests - links, prices, reviews

Thanks a lot Prateek and @Moderator for your replies and suggestions. Would try them for sure..

Thanks a ton for the reply prateekbhatt and motivator..
I haven't tried GMATPrep. Will surely do it at the earliest (Actually I wanted to be fully prepared before I take them. And whenever I give MGMAT cat, i just dont feel like giving the GMATprep.) I have been getting good scores in GMATClub's Quant and Kaplan. I thought after doing well in GMATClub's Quant, my MGMAT score will also improve. MGMAT is tougher than the actual GMAT, right?
I have some time left for the exam. Please suggest ways in which I could get 700+.
Thanks in advance.

Since you have one month left, this is the best time you must start exhausting gmat prep and Og's. By that i mean taking gmat prep atleast 2 times (you wont see a lot of repeat's)

Also once your done with this you can start practicing from Gmat prep compiled files that is posted in the same page.

Mgmat quant is some what tough( more time consuming than real gmat).

The books and software presented here are actually very good as I have tried out a couple of them. I agree the the GMAT prep from gmac is by far the most accurate, as it reflects your true abilities and gives you an insight into your expected performance on real GMAT test.

tl;dr Best CATs to take in order (in my opinion!): GMAT Prep, Kaplan/Manhattan, Economist, Veritas. Stay away from GMATPill.

I'm stressing too much from apps; so, I've decided to take a break and write a review for all the CATs I've taken. But first, a few notes:

1. I haven't taken the free Kaplan CAT, but took the 4 (out of 5) CATs with Kaplan Premier 2014. I will assume these are similar.
2. Please remember this is a review on their Free CAT exam - this review has no bearing on their ability to prepare or teach you.
3. I'm sure companies have an evolving process and these reviews may no longer be applicable if you're reading this years later. I have personally found all the information regarding Kaplan's CAT exams being harder than the real GMAT frustrating - all the info I found were years old and I believe they've changed this recently as I find Kaplan's exams to be easier.
4. It's been a month since I've taken most of these. Hopefully my memory is good!

Here's the list of all the exams I took:
8/27, kaplan cat1, 710, Q51, V29, IR4
9/14, kaplan cat2, 750, Q51, V33, IR8
9/17, manhattangmat, 690, Q48, V36, IR6.53
9/21, economist, 730, Q50, V41, IR?
9/24, kaplan cat3, 720, Q51, V34, IR8
9/28, gmat pill, 740, Q49, V42, IR6
9/28, gmat prep 1, 700, Q50, V34, IR8
9/29, kaplan cat4, 710, Q50, V38, IR7
10/1, Veritas, 690, Q50, V35, IR4
10/5, gmat prep 2, 680, Q49, V33, IR8
10/9, Real GMAT, 740, Q51, V38, IR8

Kaplan: The exams are great overall. No real major flaw. The look and feel is exactly like the GMAT - and the only exam I've taken (other than GMATPrep) to have done that. My first complaint are the scores. I feel Kaplan consistently scored me higher than where I actually was. This led me to have a false sense of security - I kept feeling really confident until I took the GMATPrep - and then I started to panic. They also just have some funky errors regarding their analysis and breakdowns of the exam, and probably their scoring as well. Nevertheless, this doesn't affect the quality of the exam - just note that the scoring and their analysis may be off. Second minor complaint involves the calculator in the IR section. You couldn't have the calculator open and fill in the answers at the same time - had to close calculator first.

MGMAT: Again, great exam overall. The quant was harder than the actual exam. The look and feel bothered me a lot. It looked very different from the actual exam, and it was awfully annoying that I couldn't select the answer choice line - I had to select the radio button itself, and this extremely hard. Clicking "Next" and going on to the next question was also different in some way from what I remember. Again, I had issues with their calculator during IR as well - it wouldn't let me use the keyboard to use the calculator.

Economist: They didn't have an AWA or an IR section, but the quant and verbal seemed fine. They may have both been a tad on the easy side, but it's hard for me to tell (I'm basing this on the fact that I finished quant way earlier than I normally do and that my verbal score seems to be higher than normal). I really liked their review user interface that after the exam. It's the best one out of the tests I've taken. I liked how everything is on one page. Most exams you have to do a lot of back and forth reviewing the problems you got wrong. You can just click on a problem and it'll expand and show the problem below. Then they'll give their explanation of that problem on the side. Then you can click on each answer choice to see the explanation behind why that answer choice was correct or incorrect. Picture is worth a thousand words: https://i.imgur.com/ChggjOu.png I also liked how they highlighted the times for ones where you took too long. I didn't finish the verbal in time and left the last question unanswered; unfortunately, this last question doesn't appear on the review

Veritas: For me, their CAT result was the most on par with my GMATPrep scores. Take that for what you will. Their verbal and math portions were fine. However, their IR was terrible. After the first four questions, I skipped this portion. They had very unclear pictures of graphs, very different multi-source reasoning than what you would normally encounter, bad questions in general - I'm just chalking this up to the fact that IR is new and hopefully it'll get better. They also definitely had calculator issues like the others.

GMATPill: Their practice test is just terrible - stay away from it. A lot of the questions aren't even fully formulated - you need to guess what the question is asking for. I had an IR question where they just gave me a table without the blurb explaining the table. I've had Sentence Correction questions where the underlined portion was different than the answer choices. Answer choices are sometimes intelligible. On one of my verbal questions, the choice for C) was literally just the letter "D" whereas the other four choices were each a sentence. For the math section, they claim you need to use chrome as some of the formulas don't show, but even with chrome, some things appear as gibberish. Many questions are also stolen directly from the OG and/or GMATPrep, so if you've done those, you'll be seeing a lot of repeat questions. The appearance of the exam is terrible, with fonts change from question to question or even answer choices to answer choices. The functionality of their pause button isn't working as intened... and I could go on. The most annoying thing of all is that after you spend hours taking the exam, they don't allow you to see your result, UNLESS you have a facebook account and "like" GMATPILL, message your friends about it, post on your timeline, etc.

Hi,
I am planning to take the GMAT in January next year, and in what order do you think I should start taking the CAT exams mentioned above?

Thanks!

Ideally you can mix it like this but there are other ways too..

Start with gmat prep free exam,then buy test from manhattan or veritas and finish with another gmat prep test.

Hello, I have tried to figure it out and look it up but I have had no success in finding out what CAT means. I know something to do with adaptive testing

Yeap you got it correct.
CAT = Computer Adaptive Test

What about Edvento mocks ?? Please share some experience.

This is very useful. I have done Manhattan GMAT CAT and MBA prep for so many times that I can remember the answers. I hope these preps will help me improve my scores. Thanks a lot

I also want to add that the Economist GMAT Tutor offers a free CAT too, and in fact we just wrote about sim test timing in a recent blog post. This post discusses when you should plan for your sim tests and how often you should take them:

Once you begin adding sim exams to your studying regime, you should plan to take one every two to three days. Plan to take five sim exams to thoroughly prepare yourself. These tests should be taken in real time and in test-like conditions. Try not to take too many sim exams—you may burn out.

And remember, no sim tests the day before your actual exam! The day before your exam, do some light studying and try to relax.

https://gmat.economist.com/blog/test-tak ... tion-exams

I'd like to add that Edvento offers a free score assessment diagnostic test and 4 full length mocks along with 32 other sectional tests, all fully adaptive. This brings the total number of questions to 1100, all in 100% adaptive mode. Each practice session measures your ability level along 100+ concept areas and the questions that you see (even in the sectional tests) are based on your past performance along those concept areas.
Access Edvento GMAT: https://learn.edvento.com/courses/gmat

We have done an analysis of scores assesses in Edvento vs GMATPrep to confirm the accuracy of Edvento predicted scores:
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Guys, in my past 4 mocks these are my scores: 700 (Economist gmat tutor), 700 (800 score), 650 (Economist GMAT Tutor) and 690 (GMAT Prep).

I'm averaging around 685. What do you guys say, should I give the test soon? I'm not really feeling confident enough

The list is quite informative and comprehensive . Thanx for compliation and links for free GMAT CAT test .

If a person attempts all the available test , i think this would provide a good opportunity to learn !