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Re: Kaplan CAT's- Accurate? [#permalink]
Kaplan must have fixed their scoring system because my score was almost identical to my Kaplan scores. I had 740, 740, 760 and 760 in my four Kaplan CATs and 760 in the real GMAT. I thought my Kaplan scores were a bit inflated though because I did all the questions in the Kaplan book (some of them show-up on the CAT) and on the advanced kaplan book. I think Kaplan's quant is actually bit easier than the real gmat -- I mostly never missed a question on the Kaplan CATs -- but routinely got 3 or 4 wrong on the GMATPrep exams. I got 8 or 10 wrong on the MGMAT quant exams -- but that's a story for another day! Kaplan verbal questions -- especially SC and RC -- are excellent.


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I am taking my first official GMAT on Sat Sept 10th. Just finished the basic "in class" Kaplan course on a twice a week basis.

(The CAT's don't give a score breakdown, just total and percentile)
Kaplan Diagnostic: 560 54% (q38%, v58%)
Kaplan Cat 1: 560 54% (q51%, v36%)
Kaplan Cat 2: 570 57% (q46%, v56%)
Kaplan Cat 3: 610 69% (q55%, v69%)
Kaplan Cat 4: 630 75% (q59%, v81%)

I still have three weeks to go and my goal is a 720. I also came across the score calculator on this website and have read on other forums that Kaplan's CAT's undervalue the scores by as much as 100 points. Not sure if this is accurate. Any feedback is appreciate.
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DevilDogg, congrats on a great score!
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Thank you very much!

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DevilDogg, congrats on a great score!
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Same question here. Instead, I am not sure if Kaplan test score is much inflated for Verbal. I got ~16 wrong but still received V42 though I got almost everything correct in first 12 questions...any idea?
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Re: Kaplan CAT's- Accurate? [#permalink]
Just took Kaplan CAT2 and scored 750 (98th%)

Q51 (98%): 26/37 (4 of last 5 wrong - due to bad time management)
V41 (92%): 24/41 (first 8 questions correct)

How accurate is this score? Does Kaplan use the same scoring methodology as the GMAC uses?
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