Princeton CATS

Question

Can Anyone tell me how accurate the princeton tests are ? Just scored a 720 ... what should I take from it .... ?

kryzak · Answer

I think there's a score estimator stickied in the GMAT board. 

My rough guess is that a 720 on the Princeton is roughly a 690-700 on the GMATPrep?

I would take a Manhattan CAT just to gauge it a bit more.

kryzak · Answer

I just bombed the verbal section of the PR CAT 1. For some reason, I missed ELEVEN questions and got a 33. Ouch! I've never missed that many questions in RC (3) and CR (5) before, and after reviewing them, I would say 1/2 of the RC and CR official answers I do not agree with.

Oh well, I'll take a Manhattan later today and see how that goes.

TNTGMAT · Answer

Yeah I have noticed that too with the RC and CR on the PR tests... I took a 2nd CAT today got a 43 on the verbal ... didnt like that they repeated some of the passages.. 
Still Making STUPID MISTAKES ON MATH ... I need to be more clearer on my Problem solving .... or smore systematic..

kryzak · Answer

yeah, I was surprised by how good my math was today... didn't make any stupid mistakes. All the questions I missed were ones that I couldn't think of a shortcut in 2 minutes.

The key to math is to keep on plowing through. Guess after 2 minutes or so or else you'll suffer in the end.

Verbal... ouch... I hope the next time it'll be better. Now to punish myself with Manhattan GMAT CAT... I'm scared of the math there.

nervousgmat · Answer

What do you guys think about Princeton Review CAT scoring in quant? I made 8 mistakes in quant (which is my lowest error level ever!) and got just a 42

In verbal, I made only 4 mistakes (2 RCs, 1 CR and 1SC) and got a 41... grrrr. I usually score higher than that in verbal.

TNTGMAT · Answer

I think princeton quant is ok... but I use the CAT to get my mistakes out etc... I havent had too much experience with them. But the questions seem ok.

As far as scoring goes I think that all the tests try to scale their score according to the difficulty of their testst to tyr to match the GMAT... so u are going to see inconsistancies. Plus u also have to look at whether the questions you got right were difficult or not

CrazyHorse · Answer

In my experience the Princeton CATs were pretty close in scoring.

kryzak · Answer

Princeton Quant is too easy. Much easier than GMATPrep. Verbal is just badly designed. 

Manhattan GMAT is good, math is much harder than GMATPrep (but the scoring is lenient, so it somewhat balances out), and verbal is somewhat on par. I haven't disputed any of their answers yet, unlike Princeton Review.

trahul4 · Answer

Yes i second kryzak's opinion. Manhattan CATs are far better than PR and kaplan. Moreover they provide you very good assesment reports.

kryzak · Answer

thanks trahul, I forgot to mention that. Manhattan CAT explanations are SUPERB! They go into a lot of detail, sort out all the questions by difficulty level, type of question (arithmetic, geometry, idioms, etc), and you can have them analyze how you scored in different sections, how much time you took and a lot of other ways. It's a great tool!

nervousgmat · Answer

Altough MGMAT's math questions are harder than PR's, my quant score was higher in MGMAT's CAT. Go figure! I think PR is just too punishing... Same applies to the verbal part. I score higher in MGMAT tests than PR's. That's that...

Finding Perdition · Answer

Just gave PR1 and got a 700...srewed real bad in Verbal...def answers are sketchy..no detailed explanation

And i have a lot of disagreement with the some of the answers... one of the Questions was not properly printed even :shock:

..... From you guyz prespective Manhattan CATs are looking way cooler.... should i accommodate them too??? My schedule approaching D-day in 3.5 weeks time is 1. Kaplan one week! Tests included 2. Cambridge(arco) Complete! Test included 3. GMAT official CD Tests complete! And i am done with PR by end of this week..... Any suggestions...i am sweating like crazy right now.... FP

kryzak · Answer

I probably wouldn't do any more PR or Kaplan if I were you. Just do Manhattan and GMATPrep/PowerPrep.

TNTGMAT · Answer

Hey All just took a PowerPrep test scored a 720... (Q49) V(40) ? What do you guys think ? Got some really long passages that slowed me down on the verbal... What do you guys think about PowerPrep tests ? I was going to take a manhattan GMAT but their quant was getting extremely difficult .. (maybe I was doing well ... but I will probably just go over their questions.. 

Please let me know what you guys think about my score above and if there is anything else I can do to keep going up ...

kryzak · Answer

what questions did you miss in Verbal? 

Math seems pretty good.

I might just use Manhattan to do practice problems, since they allow you to set time limits or remove them altogether.

TNTGMAT · Answer

Here is my verbal breakdown... SC (missed 3 out 16) CR(missed 4 out of 11)and RC missed (3 out of 14). Total 10 questions missed... I got two passages back to back on this test that really screwed me and slowed me down... May need to improve my CR tho... Hey Kryzak do u have that CR e-book logic reasoning bible ?

kryzak · Answer

I got back to back reading in PowerPrep 2, got a V44, but only because I saw a bunch of questions (a whole reading passage, 1 CR and 2-3 SC questions) before. So I probably deserved a V40 or so. Still running out of time. 

You're doing pretty good at SC! BTW, how do you know how many total SC/CR/RC questions there were? They only show the 30 questions that they counted on PowerPrep...

I have the link. PM me and I can send it to you.

TNTGMAT · Answer

Thanks been practiticing a lot on SC... was my nemesis a while ago so I decided the only way to beat it was to face it head on... As far as knowing I just went through and listed each number by catergory after I took the test...

kryzak · Answer

Same here, and I think I'm getting there. I only make mistakes on idioms now, and generally in very long and complex sentences where the idiom gets lost between modifiers and phrases. 

The only problem I'm finding is that now I'm spending more time on SC (because I can narrow most of them down), I'm losing a lot of time to do RC and CR, and my scores have been lower than when I first took the test. My SC is not improving enough to compensate since the idioms still trip me up. It seems that unless I can get an 80% on the idioms (at least I'm getting those; it means they're the hardest bin), my time is wasted and my CR/RC suffers. Maybe I should only spend 1 minute on an SC question, and just guess after that? Not quite sure what my strategy should be.

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