EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi ALINA93,
The 'accuracy' of a CAT score is also based on how realistic YOU choose to make the CAT. To that end, when you took your CATs:
1) Did you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) Did you take them at home?
3) Did you take them at the same time of day as your Official GMAT?
4) Did you ever do ANYTHING during your CATs that you couldn't do on Test Day (pause the CAT, skip sections, take longer breaks, etc.)?
5) Did you ever take a CAT more than once?
With 14 days remaining before your Official GMAT, you shouldn't plan to take too many new CATs (but 2-3 FULL CATs would be fine). Any of the CATs from Kaplan,
MGMAT or Veritas, when used correctly, will provide you with a reasonably accurate score assessment.
1) What is your goal score?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Hi Rich,
thanks for the answer (I also have to thank for my score in quantitative since I followed the course of empowergmat and now I’m almost always above the Q47)
I always try to do the CAT in a realistic way, (although I do bad the IR because I’m not prepared and I don’t want to get tired.)
Since I have some problems with the time and with the fact the I became more nervous, (usually towards the end of the verbal I go into panic) I would like to try this week every morning a Cat ( and then in the afternoon I will analyze the solutions, I think I can dedicate at least 6-8 hours per day to GMAT); so at least a minimum of 4/5 cat I would like to take, and the last week I will cover the exercises and some idoms
what mock do you suggest me?
yesterday I made a CAT of Manhattan ( the free trial). the result was strange; in the morning I was a little tired therefore I expect that quant will not be high, while the score in verbal was higher than my expectation. I took V 36( usually my max was V33). Consequently I do not know if it was a coincidence result, or the 800score is so different from the Manhattan mocks. I usually go well in math and poorly in verbal, while yesterday I was average in both
I would take a mock that is of a medium level, and it uses words similar to real GMAT, I am not native speakers therefore I would like to do in the last days mock that use word and logic similar to real ; I heard that Kaplan is more difficult, therefore 14 days before the exam it does not make sense to do complicated things, then I realized that quant in 800score is written differently than Manhattan (I think those of Manhattan are more similar to real GMAT)
since I do not know how are the other mocks, today I would like to try a different one and then tomorrow I will decide which to buy
finally, my ideal score would be 700 that I could get with Q50 V36 (I was able to take both but in different examinations), or Q 49 V37 (I never took V37)
However, I think I will be enough for me to be a little more than 600, I'm finishing my bachelor and I would like to enroll this month to master, so I do not need a very high score, at least I hope.
thanks for any advice