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Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   20 Jan 2008, 11:50
Worked through 5 of my Kaplan CATs and took the GMATPrep CAT last week. For fear of exhausting the GMATPrep one, can anyone recommend any free CATs out there? I found a Power Prep, and I have a bunch of old paper ones - if there are no other free ones, I will just purchase something that's not too pricey, but I wanted to check out my options first.

Also, I know that Kaplan CATs are not popular around here, but if worse comes to worse, should I just complete more of these? Will they totally ruin my self esteem? lol
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   20 Jan 2008, 13:00
I think ManhattanGmat.com and PrincetonReview.com both have 1 free CAT each. be careful thought these probably won't be as reflective of your achievement. Esp the Manhattan Quant can be brutal in 75mins.
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   20 Jan 2008, 13:49
I haven't tried an MGMAT tests myself yet, but I have access to all six from purchasing most of the MGMAT books (although you can get access to all 6 from any 1 purchase). I've heard good things about them in terms of what you can learn, not so much in terms of the tests being an accurate predicter. Maybe give that a try and if you like it, buy one of their books and get access to the others as well.
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   20 Jan 2008, 14:11
Thats a good point actually. Plenty of people who buy the whole set of MGMAT books only use one of the books (obviously) to unlock the tests. I bought a couple of these books second hand and the tests were unused (the book was unregistered). So look around, you might pick up a secondhand book (altough they are inexpensive as is) for cheap.
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   20 Jan 2008, 15:03
So when some people state the inaccuracy of some CATs, they either mean that you will tend to score higher on the real thing/GMATPrep or lower - what is the consensus for the MGMAT ones?

Because I just took the free one and got 620 - first time I actually got over 600, so I'm pretty excited :P But I did feel like I guessed on a lot of q's, I didn't feel too confident in the Quant section, and Verbal seemed a little confusing too, so I have no idea how I got a 620.

Also..Is there anyone out there that is comfortable with selling me access to the rest of the MGMAT tests via their prep books for a lower price?
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   20 Jan 2008, 15:19
The general consensus is that the MGMAT tests are more difficult than the real deal and the scores *on average* are lower than what you could expect to see on GMAT Prep or the actual GMAT
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   13 Feb 2008, 07:54
Tangaroo wrote:
Also, I know that Kaplan CATs are not popular around here, but if worse comes to worse, should I just complete more of these? Will they totally ruin my self esteem? lol


It's more than just the skewed scoring, it's the fact that it does a poor job of emulating the GMAT CAT. In essence, you're practice on Kaplan CATs are less efficient than on other CATs.
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   13 Feb 2008, 21:19
The PR CATs are a lot closer to the real thing than Kaplan or even MGMAT if you ask me. I would definitely do them. Well, do all of them, but yeah, don't let Kaplan scores in particular freak you out.
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Re: Free CATs? [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2008, 13:21
I found the PR verbal to be on par with actual gmat & mgmat quant to be slightly more difficult (some more so than others) than actual gmat. but I think these two are the closest other than the priceless GMATPrep.
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