EA tests from GMAT club vs GMAC

Question

Hello All

I have been practicing GMAC EA practice tests for the past few weeks and scoring 154-156 consistently. Today I took the GMATCLUB free EA test and ended up scoring only 136. Is the gmatclub test level actually difficult than GMAC ones? I plan to take the test next week but not sure anymore? Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

bb · Answer

Sorry 😬
Good question… I have not heard too many complaints about the difficulty but it doesn’t mean we did an amazing job what was the score system. I did get one complaint that said our IR questions were too hard. But nothing about Q or V.

We did spend a long time making sure that the two systems were comparable but it is possible that we have questions that are harder and therefore they result into more mistakes. We have used the GMAT Club test evaluation system to come up with question difficulties so they should be well researched … is there any particular section in your experience that was penalized more severely? Did any of the sections match? 😬🤷‍♂️

I would also love to hear from those who have taken our free test or paid test and have taken the official executive assessment to see how close/far we are.

PS. I sincerely hope that it’s a glitch and we are under scoring you.

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latticedefect · Answer

Wondering if the op has taken the real test by now and what is the feeling now on this topic. I just started to prep for EA and tried the IR part of the free test yesterday. It was really hard for me and I only managed to answer 9 questions out of which 8 were wrong… I was really surprised and upset by this as I took GMAT a few years ago and got 760… it has since expired and that’s why taking EA now. I am definitely very rusty and not at the same level as when I took my gmat but to do this bad was surprising and very motivating for me to take prep very seriously

I have 3 weeks till my scheduled test and will update how it goes as I progress Posted from my mobile device

bb · Answer

Thank you for bumping this topic and feedback about the difficulty. 
I have pinged the OP to see if they would be able to share/provide input in this topic perhaps. I think everyone would benefit from it.

P.S. We should soon have about a year's worth of data for the IR and hopefully that will help us determine the difficulty of the questions better.

-BB.

NehaC123 · Answer

Hello

I took the test and ended up with 151, I am debating if I should retake it since I only prepared for a few weeks. I would say the questions on the test were somewhat harder than GMAC practice tests but way easier than the GMAT club sample test.

Thank you

bb · Answer

Thank you so much for your feedback. Would you say all questions, Quant and verbal and IR were easier in the test?

As to 151, it’s 60th percentile and if you only studied for a few weeks, I think you have a good chance to improve your score substantially if you spent your Christmas in GMAT hell 😂

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zhugelianges · Answer

Hi my friend

I have just prepared for 4 weeks and consistently get scores (GMAC official practice tests) from 151 - 153, should I study a few more weeks?

What is the ideal studying time?

Thanks a lot!

latticedefect · Answer

I wanted to give an update to this post as I completed the EA test today, I scored 166.

I scored 160 both times with the official prep test 1 and 2. With GMATCLUB EA tests I did only 2 and got 143ish both times. The IR section I feel like is way harder than the official prep or the real test but it's a good exercise if you really want to challenge yourself and score high in the real test.

bb · Answer

Thank you so much for the feedback!
Do you remember by chance your score distribution for the Official EA and GMAT Club EA sections?
IR, Quant and Verbal?

latticedefect · Answer

sorry no, I reset my tests and redid them before taking the real thing... for the official prep, I would say I usually get 1-3 IR wrong, 1-3 verbal wrong and 1-2 quants wrong. The gmat club one is more difficult to say, as I said in my earlier post, the first time I did it, I did not finish IR and only got one correct. the second EA I did, I probably got 4 correct... can't remember verbal and quant but i do think I at least 2-4 wrong ones.

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