Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2610:00 AM EDT
-11:00 AM EDT
The Target Test Prep course represents a quantum leap forward in GMAT preparation, a radical reinterpretation of the way that students should study. Try before you buy with a 5-day, full-access trial of the course for FREE!
Apr 2711:00 AM EDT
-12:00 PM EDT
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
02 Jun 2016, 14:35
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hello everyone,
Long time lurker on these forums and first time poster here. As a little bit of background, I'm a recent university graduate who comes from a very quantitative focussed background. Native English speaker. I've been studying for the GMAT adound one month now and I've just recently entered into the phase of doing actual practice tests. I purchased the MGMAT set of six practice tests, as I heard they were a relatively good representation of your actual score.
I just completed my first two tests and I received 640 and 590, respectively. Entirely disappointed at this result since my goal is 750 or higher given my demographic and the school I wish to apply to. However, when I took the first GMATPrep test I received a score of 730. At some further background:
Quant
I purchased the GMATClub question set (godsend) and regularly get about 28 to 30 out of the 37 questions correct on the quant CATs.
Verbal
While I don't have a specific resource from this aside from the official guide, when I sit down to do verbal I generally pick about 41 verbal questions spread over the latter portions of each question set in the guide. Typically, I only get one or two wrong (3 is a very bad day). I understand these questions are not at the highest level of difficulty, but if these questions are around 600, then it should be the case that I'm getting the majority of the medium difficulty questions correct, but apparently MGMAT disagrees with me.
When I reviewed the MGMAT test, there was nothing specific that I was lacking knowledge on. As a matter fact I just found many of their verbal questions to be very different from the style of the official guide ones. My real question here is should I be concerned? I'm just not sure why the discrepancy is so large. Should I disregard the MGMAT tests for now on and just stick with GMATPrep?
As a sidenote, test taking anxiety really isn't a problem for me. And timing hasn't been an issue either. I'm a recent graduate, so I'm used to being in an environment that's heavy on test taking, and I actually tend to thrive in those environments.
Perhaps one more note, I have the next three months where I plan on starting full-time, about 14 hours a day (8 min). Any guidance would be appreciated.
**I in no way mean this post to be a criticism of the Manhattan prep tests. I'm sure they work very well for some people.
Long time lurker on these forums and first time poster here. As a little bit of background, I'm a recent university graduate who comes from a very quantitative focussed background. Native English speaker. I've been studying for the GMAT adound one month now and I've just recently entered into the phase of doing actual practice tests. I purchased the MGMAT set of six practice tests, as I heard they were a relatively good representation of your actual score.
I just completed my first two tests and I received 640 and 590, respectively. Entirely disappointed at this result since my goal is 750 or higher given my demographic and the school I wish to apply to. However, when I took the first GMATPrep test I received a score of 730. At some further background:
Quant
I purchased the GMATClub question set (godsend) and regularly get about 28 to 30 out of the 37 questions correct on the quant CATs.
Verbal
While I don't have a specific resource from this aside from the official guide, when I sit down to do verbal I generally pick about 41 verbal questions spread over the latter portions of each question set in the guide. Typically, I only get one or two wrong (3 is a very bad day). I understand these questions are not at the highest level of difficulty, but if these questions are around 600, then it should be the case that I'm getting the majority of the medium difficulty questions correct, but apparently MGMAT disagrees with me.
When I reviewed the MGMAT test, there was nothing specific that I was lacking knowledge on. As a matter fact I just found many of their verbal questions to be very different from the style of the official guide ones. My real question here is should I be concerned? I'm just not sure why the discrepancy is so large. Should I disregard the MGMAT tests for now on and just stick with GMATPrep?
As a sidenote, test taking anxiety really isn't a problem for me. And timing hasn't been an issue either. I'm a recent graduate, so I'm used to being in an environment that's heavy on test taking, and I actually tend to thrive in those environments.
Perhaps one more note, I have the next three months where I plan on starting full-time, about 14 hours a day (8 min). Any guidance would be appreciated.
**I in no way mean this post to be a criticism of the Manhattan prep tests. I'm sure they work very well for some people.
02 Jun 2016, 16:39
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi Alexander3450,
Since there's some question as to which of these CAT scores is most accurate, I'd like to know a bit more about how you took these CATs:
1) What were the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores on each?
2) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
3) Did you take them at home?
4) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you plan to take your Official GMAT?
5) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
6) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
As an aside, studying upwards of 14 hours a day is NOT a good idea (and even studying 8 hours could lead to 'burnout'). Three months of consistent study time should give you a good chance at hitting your score goals, but you won't have to study that much each day during that time.
1) What is your overall score goal?
2) When are you planning to apply to Business School?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Since there's some question as to which of these CAT scores is most accurate, I'd like to know a bit more about how you took these CATs:
1) What were the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores on each?
2) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
3) Did you take them at home?
4) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you plan to take your Official GMAT?
5) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
6) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
As an aside, studying upwards of 14 hours a day is NOT a good idea (and even studying 8 hours could lead to 'burnout'). Three months of consistent study time should give you a good chance at hitting your score goals, but you won't have to study that much each day during that time.
1) What is your overall score goal?
2) When are you planning to apply to Business School?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
02 Jun 2016, 19:39
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi Rich,
Thanks for your response. As an update, I just wrote another GmatPrep exam (this is on the same day as I wrote a MGMAT, so I have done 2 today). I got 760 (50Q, 44V). I was pretty tired through this exam so I think I may have been able to push for Q51 and a slightly higher verbal, as some silly mistakes were made.
The 2 scores on the MGMAT were as follows:
640 (39Q, 38V) and 590 (40Q, 32V).
Some answers to your other questions:
2) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
Yes, every test was the entire CAT. I have also used GmatWrite, and have gotten a 6 in AWA (on all sections) on my first attempt (I did one of these right become a MGMAT CAT while I was "in the zone").
3) Did you take them at home?
Yes but with no distractions as I live alone.
4) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you plan to take your Official GMAT?
Yes and I even intentionally made the GmatPrep more difficult than it needed to be (the one I got 730). I did it while tired and with distractions so simulate some test center stress.
5) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
Nothing, I opted not to take any breaks, I'm not a fan of the break time personally.
6) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
Never, each was "fresh." Never before seen questions.
Thanks for your response. As an update, I just wrote another GmatPrep exam (this is on the same day as I wrote a MGMAT, so I have done 2 today). I got 760 (50Q, 44V). I was pretty tired through this exam so I think I may have been able to push for Q51 and a slightly higher verbal, as some silly mistakes were made.
The 2 scores on the MGMAT were as follows:
640 (39Q, 38V) and 590 (40Q, 32V).
Some answers to your other questions:
2) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
Yes, every test was the entire CAT. I have also used GmatWrite, and have gotten a 6 in AWA (on all sections) on my first attempt (I did one of these right become a MGMAT CAT while I was "in the zone").
3) Did you take them at home?
Yes but with no distractions as I live alone.
4) Did you take them at the same time of day as when you plan to take your Official GMAT?
Yes and I even intentionally made the GmatPrep more difficult than it needed to be (the one I got 730). I did it while tired and with distractions so simulate some test center stress.
5) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
Nothing, I opted not to take any breaks, I'm not a fan of the break time personally.
6) Did you ever take a CAT more than once? Had you seen any of the questions BEFORE?
Never, each was "fresh." Never before seen questions.
