GMAT Club Free CAT Verbal Test Experience

Please note that the best apdaptive CAT is GMAT Prep. Others are just for reference. Also, the score in each CATs could be inflated for some reasons. For example, that CATs has some questions that you've seen before and remember the answer. Or some questions have the same way to test candidates as some questions you've taken. Hence, use only GMAT Prep for estimate your score and use other CATs for reference purpose.

Back to your questions, I think that GmatClub Free CAT is as good as GmatClub paid CATs. Generally, the score estimate system in GmatClub CATs is good enough for practice, both in Quant and Verbal sections. The questions in Quant section are excellent while the quetions in Verbal section are good.

Hi aaronwhite1989,

When you take the Official GMAT, any questions that you do NOT answer are 'penalized' (and that penalty is WORSE than if you had simply gotten the question wrong). While the penalty associated with not answering just one question would be relatively minor, leaving 3-6 question unanswered at the end of a section would likely carry a significant penalty. This is mean to say that you shouldn't leave any questions unanswered (even if you're just guessing, you MUST answer every question).

1) When did you take the Official GMAT? What were your overall scores (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) How long have you studied?
3) What materials have you used?
4) What is your goal score?
5) When are you planning to take the GMAT?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

aaronwhite1989 - As others have alluded to - your GMAT Prep scores are probably a better indicator of where your currently stand.

Few observations: Even when running out of time, your would be much better off selecting and marking questions randomly than leaving them blank, especially around the V30+ mark. Secondly, to improve your score on GMAT verbal, make sure that your improve your sectional abilities - i.e. SC ability, CR ability and RC ability. Take a look at GMAT Planner to understand how your verbal score is comprised of individual SC, CR, RC abilities.

Link to GMAT Planner: https://gmatplanner.e-gmat.com/

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1) 3/4/17 - 590 (42Q 30V) 80% on IR and 5.5 AWA
2) 4 Months
3) Magoosh, Manhattan Guide for SC and Geometry, OG 17, GC
4) 630-640
5) I take it 4/11/17

Hi aaronwhite1989,

With a 590, you're closer to a 630+ score than you probably realize. Since you're relatively close to that goal, you could pick up all of the missing points that you're looking for in just the Quant, just the Verbal or a 'mix' of the two. As such, there's some question as to why you're focusing so much on the Verbal section. It's also worth noting that many Business Schools place a certain emphasis on an applicant's Quant Scaled Score (it's often viewed as an implied measure of how an applicant might handle the 'academic side' of the Program). This is meant to say that raising your Quant score would help you to hit your score goal AND would likely improve the strength of your overall application.

Regardless of how you continue to study, you really have to work on the 'precision' in your work. To hit your score goal, you don't have to correct answer ANY questions that you think are too hard or too weird. However, you do need to 'nail' most of the 'gettable' questions, so you have to minimize the number of silly/little mistakes that you make.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich