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I feel that for someone like a GMAT tutor who does GMAT teaching professionally, this is a good discussion. At the same time, I’m not sure it really matters for the rest of us who are studying for the GMAT 😇 but I would say that you cannot really assume that the real test will be different or harder. That is a problem if you’re expecting your test experience to be different from your practice experience…. It may be different, but it doesn’t have to. I’ve seen an ESR that had only a couple of mistakes and errors and didn’t really have high-diff questions. At the same time, we don’t really know how difficulties measured and what this means and if that’s absolute difficulty or relative difficulty. Anyway, we have gotten reports from people that the test was easy yet they got penalized for making a handful of mistakes and others reporting back that the test was very hard and they made a bunch of mistakes but they got the very high score. There’s definitely variance in the test Experience or at least the perception but you really don’t need to worry about any of this. You don’t need to worry during the test about the difficulty in the questions, you want to keep your timing consistent. Do you want to answer every single question and give every single question the chance , and you want to answer as many questions as you can correctly. Following these steps, will usually give you a chance to maximize your score. The reality is more complicated than this but you don’t need to worry about all the complexities because we don’t control them and there’s not much we can do. All we need to do is not mess up our timing and answer the questions correctly 😎

Jim And prep uses official questions from past GMAT exams and it supposed to follow the exact same algorithm. The score you get on GMAT prep is the closest evaluation to the real GMAT. Again, GMAT refuses real questions from previous GMAT exams and the use the real GMAT algorithm. It does not get any more real than that.

Lol. GMAT Prep.🥴

GMATprep uses official questions from past GMAT exams and it supposed to follow the exact same algorithm. The score you get on GMAT prep is the closest evaluation to the real GMAT. Again, GMAT refuses real questions from previous GMAT exams and the use the real GMAT algorithm. It does not get any more real than that. Therefore, if you get a great score on the practice test, you are pretty much guaranteed to get a pretty close to the score on the test. Similarly, if you’re score stinks, don’t expected to go up on the real test.