Question on GMATClub Verbal CAT

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Hi everyone,

Quick question:

Are the questions in the GMAT Club CAT generally more difficult than on the real exam, or are they about the same overall difficulty?

I nailed so many 700 Levels in a row but in the end scored only a V30...

converge · Answer

Any input, anyone?

KyleWiddison · Answer

I don't know if the algorithm has changed since 2012, but here is a post from 2012 about the difficulty of the GMAT Club exams: all-700-questions-on-gmat-club-cat-tests-is-this-normal-139275.html

souvik101990 · Answer

The algorithm has changed a lot since 2012, but here is something that I would want you to think about.

Why do you take a practice CAT? There could be primarily 2 reasons

1. You are looking to get a realistic estimate score.
2. You are looking to figure out areas that you need to work on and/or working to increase pacing efficiency.

If you are in the first bandwagon, the only CAT that I would suggest that you take is the GMAT Prep CAT. Because no other CAT will give you a reliable indicator of that degree. However if you are on the second group (as you should be while preparing for the test), the score that you ultimately end up getting is quite irrelevant.

If you could answer a lot of 700-level questions (a term which is quite invalid in most cases and used as a generic measure of ascertaining difficulty), may be you have those concepts internalized. You should focus on the questions that you could not answer and review those thoroughly.

Hope this helps.

converge · Answer

souvik101990

Thank you very much for your input. Both of your reasons do resonate a lot with my situation.

After giving it some thought, I am probably more inclined to the second option, rather than to the first one.

While I am interested in a realistic score estimate, I mainly did them for pacing. Verbal is doable, but I still have trouble with Quant timing since I found myself frequently stopping the clock in order to actually solve the problem well and understand it. I attempted to solve all questions of timing and got Q48 which surprised me a lot, since I was not expecting to score that much even with occasional pausing.

converge · Answer

Sorry to revive this old thread, but it is still relevant in my case.

I am going to retake the test in a month, so I started going through the CATs again.

If I scored a V38, what would my 'real' score be?

KyleWiddison · Answer

Are you asking what your verbal scaled score would be on the real test? That is impossible to know because of the various factors that make a practice test different that the real one (different environment, pressure, algorithm, questions, etc.). The practice exams are designed to give a close approximation of your real exam. For planning purposes, expect to score a bit lower than the score you consistently achieve on the practices.

KW

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