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MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   01 Mar 2010, 14:26
Hey guys,

In my past couple of MG GMAT CATs, I have scored 47 & 48 in quant, which is awesome, but I really want to get 50/51.

I noticed that in the MG GMAT the math questions are back-to-back tough and are relentless, not giving much room to breathe. And in the GMAT Prep, there are some hard questions, but also loads of easy ones.

Q: To get a 50+, how many of those '700-800' level MG GMAT problems will you typically encounter?

The reason I ask this is for time allocation... I know I can solve some of these problems, but not too confident if it has to be within 2minutes. If there are only a handful of super hard ones, then I will feel a lot better spendign 3-4 minutes on them!
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   02 Mar 2010, 08:39
Hi,

Both the MGMAT CAT and the GMAT Prep CAT are computer adaptive, which means that if you get a hard math question wrong, you'll get an easier question afterward. Without knowing how you scored on your GMAT Prep test, I would assume that the reason you were getting easier questions there was because you got some of the really difficult ones wrong, whereas you were getting most of the 700-800 level questions right on the MGMAT exam.

Remember, though, that it's not about how many questions you get right or wrong, but rather what ability level those questions are at. Even people who score a perfect 800 still get questions wrong. That's the nature of the test. So, don't focus on getting 50+ questions right, focus on trying to get those harder questions!

This article might help to clarify: https://www.manhattangmat.com/strategy-s ... -score.cfm

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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   02 Mar 2010, 14:55
Actually the original post's question is a legit one... I too want to know for those who got a 50/51 on quant, how many "hard" (750+) questions would you say you might encounter?

I expect about maybe 4-6 total... but that's just a guess.

Also, a corollary to the above: even if you get right, say, two 750+ level questions in a row, does the next question necessarily have to be another 750+ question? Can it jump back to a 700-level question or even a 650-level question??
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2010, 09:10
I scored 51 in Math section of GMAT. For me, only first 4-5 questions were real easy.. Rest all needed some thinking... in between I kept getting 1 - 2 easy questions too... but overall it wasnt simple.. at the end 2-3 ques i thought were reasonably easy... In practice tests, I generally had 10-15 mins to spare, in actual GMAT only 5 or so mins.
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2010, 11:01
I remember seeing a post that tested GMAT Prep. And if I recall correctly, he said that you could only miss ~5 questions to pull a 50 in quant? Is this correct?

Or, like Cclay said, is it possible to miss, let's say, 10 questions in quant (albeit hard questions) and still obtain a 50?
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2010, 11:33
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I remember seeing a post that tested GMAT Prep. And if I recall correctly, he said that you could only miss ~5 questions to pull a 50 in quant? Is this correct?

Or, like Cclay said, is it possible to miss, let's say, 10 questions in quant (albeit hard questions) and still obtain a 50?


i don't think anyone knows the answer to this. besides the fact that we don't know the exact GMAT scoring algorithm, there are also a number of ungraded experimental questions sprinkled throughout the test. you could presumably get all the experimental questions wrong and still get a perfect score. or you might get all the experimental questions wrong + some real questions wrong and get a great score. the problem is that you'l l never know which ones were experimental and which ones weren't.
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2010, 11:45
In my limited experience, getting 50 with 10 wrong may be possible but only if most of those ques turn out to be those not marked for u... if they are marked for u and u keep making errors, the ques level will keep going down n if many of ur ques r easier ones, scoring a 50 will be tough.. just my two cents.
i know i had one ques incorrect definitely.. i might have had another 2-3 incorrect but definitely nothing more than that, i m quite sure...
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2010, 21:56
Wow, okay I just took the GMAT Prep and surprisingly I got a Q50 with missing 10 questions. I missed 6 out of last 9 questions, interesting. I thought I was doing horribly too. Maybe I just can't let it get in my head while testing.
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Re: MGGMAT CAT Math vs. Real Math?? [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2010, 18:41
Q50... wow... can i borrow your brain on my test day? :D
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