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Hi, good night, sorry if this question is stupid, but is the Gmat Club tests way of getting the final score, the same as the real GMAT?
I've done kaplan tests and are adaptive, and on the gmat club tests, I've done correct some 700 diff questions in a row, and then I get a string of like five 600 questions. On the Kaplan, I keep getting a lot of high difficulty level questions in a row until I start making a lot of wrong choices in a row too... Maybe is gmat club tests done in that way to learn more? Or am I missing something here?

I'm supposing the method of scoring is the same as in quant (which I havent taken in gmat club yet)

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Hi, good night, sorry if this question is stupid, but is the Gmat Club tests way of getting the final score, the same as the real GMAT?
I've done kaplan tests and are adaptive, and on the gmat club tests, I've done correct some 700 diff questions in a row, and then I get a string of like five 600 questions. On the Kaplan, I keep getting a lot of high difficulty level questions in a row until I start making a lot of wrong choices in a row too... Maybe is gmat club tests done in that way to learn more? Or am I missing something here?

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There are a few variables but the bottom line you have to embrace is that nobody knows how the GMAT really works and how the algorithm works.
You are most likely commenting on verbal tests rather than the Quant?
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Yeah, I'm talking about the verbal section.. I wanna know if gmat club tests are scored more or less in the same way as Kaplan's are, or in a whole different way? Because I'm comparing this two scores (verbal sections)
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Hi arisfaria

The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. As such, you shouldn't be spending time trying to figure it all out. You'd be better served working on building up your skills.

Since that algorithm is proprietary, no GMAT company has an exact match for it, thus CAT scores can vary a bit based on the 'biases' involved in their respective designs.

1) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?
2) When are you planning to take the GMAT?
3) What is your score goal?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
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Hi, "GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made" is the thing that has motivated me the most to continue studying for the GMAT. Just wanted to point that out.

I actually wasnt trying to figure out the method, I wanted to know if the criteria for the GMAT club tests was "hard" in order to inspire its takers more, because it claims its full of HARD questions, so I wanted to know that

After studying from e-gmat, but just after finishing the math section, I got on Kaplan 640 (Q49, V28 I think), I told to myself, well I havent reviewed the verbal section in the last two weeks, and started doing the quizzes in the scholanarium, and attempted a verbal section on the gmat club, but got 28 again, I was confused that even after reviewing the verbal part again, I got the same score, I focused on SC, and I thought I got better at it, and my accuracy improved a lot, I could make a lot of 600 questions without making mistakes, and now I could do some 700 (not all of them, but a few).

I just took the verbal section on the gmat club again and got 29, I saw that my accuracy in SC got better (not perfect), my CR was almost perfect (just one wrong) and RC stayed regular. But what confused me was, that I took a lot of correct answers in a row... And if I compared it to my kaplan test I also made a lot of correct answers in a row and then only high difficulty questions started appearing (I paused the test because I needed to do something) and when I came I made 11 INCORRECT questions in a row, so my score was destroyed of course. But after comparing the correct answers in a row from Kaplan and Gmat club tests, I'm really confused... I dont take a kaplan test again because I only have one left and I wanna take it just after I'm really good in verbal and have reviewed quant again.

I wanted to take it in 2 weeks, I havent made the appointment yet, and I'm planning to score 700+, I wanna apply to a top tier school (wharton, columbia, mit, london business school) my GPA is 3.92, maybe that helps me if my GMAT score isnt 750.

Any help or suggestions are REALLY appreciated
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Hi, "GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made" is the thing that has motivated me the most to continue studying for the GMAT. Just wanted to point that out.

I actually wasnt trying to figure out the method, I wanted to know if the criteria for the GMAT club tests was "hard" in order to inspire its takers more, because it claims its full of HARD questions, so I wanted to know that

After studying from e-gmat, but just after finishing the math section, I got on Kaplan 640 (Q49, V28 I think), I told to myself, well I havent reviewed the verbal section in the last two weeks, and started doing the quizzes in the scholanarium, and attempted a verbal section on the gmat club, but got 28 again, I was confused that even after reviewing the verbal part again, I got the same score, I focused on SC, and I thought I got better at it, and my accuracy improved a lot, I could make a lot of 600 questions without making mistakes, and now I could do some 700 (not all of them, but a few).

I just took the verbal section on the gmat club again and got 29, I saw that my accuracy in SC got better (not perfect), my CR was almost perfect (just one wrong) and RC stayed regular. But what confused me was, that I took a lot of correct answers in a row... And if I compared it to my kaplan test I also made a lot of correct answers in a row and then only high difficulty questions started appearing (I paused the test because I needed to do something) and when I came I made 11 INCORRECT questions in a row, so my score was destroyed of course. But after comparing the correct answers in a row from Kaplan and Gmat club tests, I'm really confused... I dont take a kaplan test again because I only have one left and I wanna take it just after I'm really good in verbal and have reviewed quant again.

I wanted to take it in 2 weeks, I havent made the appointment yet, and I'm planning to score 700+, I wanna apply to a top tier school (wharton, columbia, mit, london business school) my GPA is 3.92, maybe that helps me if my GMAT score isnt 750.

Any help or suggestions are REALLY appreciated
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I would suggest you to take a GMAT prep exam and check your score. If you had already exhausted both Prep exams, I would suggest you to buy extra exam pack in MBA.com.
Please check if you are missing out in any timing strategy. If so watch the recording for Strategy session 2 in eGMAT site.
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Yeah, I'm talking about the verbal section.. I wanna know if gmat club tests are scored more or less in the same way as Kaplan's are, or in a whole different way? Because I'm comparing this two scores (verbal sections)
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It is a different way as each test provider uses their own proprietary scoring mechanism. Thus the scores are not apples to apples in terms of a comparison.
We actually use 2 different algorithms and scoring systems for Verbal and for Quant since we have a very large Database of quant questions and a smaller one for verbal. The quant one is pretty darn good and almost perfect; the verbal one is not there but is improving as we have added more verbal questions in the last few months and we are revising both the question picking and the test scoring algorithms.
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gk3391 ok thank you very much, I'm gonna try GMAT prep so I can know better my actual score.

Ok bb, I wasking that, so thanks
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