Manhattan GMAT Prep online CAT difficulty

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Hi, I bought Manhattan GMAT Prep's sentence correction book and along with it came 6 online CATs and 3 non-CATs + alpha. (I registered online using the code provided on the back cover of the book) Well, I took my first MGMAT CAT...AND I WAS SHOCKED!!! :shock:

The math section was WAY harder than I had expected. The problems were NOTHING like those in the OG 11th edition... Yes, even the last 10 problems in the OG are easier than most of the challenge problems in this club but still... I timed myself and I couldn't finish in time...left 10 last problems untouched (ouch!) I thought my strength lied in math, as I was able to do OG math problems easily and even solved harder problems in PrincetonReview (math bin 4) without much difficulty... Even some of the hard questions that appear in the forums... Maybe I was overly confident... On other practice tests, I usually get 32~34 questions right in math...I was aiming for 51 from 44~49 which I had thought I was in. Needless to say, I'm in SHOCK... starting to panick now that the area I thought I pretty much had just fell apart... Has anyone taken the math section of MGMAT CAT? How are they compared to the actual test or other practice tests? Please help me... I might need a wake-up call. Ahhhh..... * I'm restricted in posting my scores and the number of questions I got right/wrong...

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johnnyx9 · Answer

Are they definitely CAT's? The MGMAT tests I took were online, but they weren't adaptive, just regular tests. And yeah, they were terrible, I think I got like a 590 or something on the MGMAT test. Took the GMAT a week or so later and got a 750.

So no, don't panic, MGMAT is garbage. If you really want a sense of whether you should panic or not, take a GMATPrep, those are basically like taking the real thing.

kidderek · Answer

MGMAT has CATs now. 

Also, I wouldn't say MGMAT isn't garbage. They're scoring system is off. But their questions are very good for practice, especially for high end quant.

johnnyx9 · Answer

I'm not familiar with the MGMAT CATs. I guess I should have said that the specific MGMAT's that I took were garbage. The questions just weren't realistic (not in terms of difficulty but the format of some of them was totally different than what is on the real test).

ricokevin · Answer

Thank you johnnyx9 and kidderek.

I should take GMATPrep to see where I currently stand.

Yes, MGMAT CAT math problems were hard but I guess I could use them to practice the hard questions!

Paid $16 for the book that came with 6 online CATs and 3 non-CATs + sentence correction question bank. Worth the money.

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