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Congratulations on getting a 740. Official Tests predict the scores quite correctly.

All the Best for the applications.
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Can you be a little bit more specific about which test you took? Did you took the free and paid ones?

We’ve had a number of people complain about tests three, four, five and six getting really high scores and then getting low scores on the test day it’s always hard to know where the failure is… did you also take GMAT multiple times?


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Writing about this topic because I messed up last 2 days before my exam because of this myth, So for context I had given all 6 of the GMATprep Practice tests and I was consistently getting 720-740, So I googled to see how much my actual score might vary from these tests.

Some blogs were positive saying they shouldn't vary much others were pretty negative talking about how GMAT has evolved and the Practice tests were old and that I can expect to get 40 points less in my official exam and hearing this I kind of panicked because that would mean I will get 680-700 and that was way less than what I wanted. But anyway, I kept these feelings behind me and went for the exam and would you believe it I got 740(Q49,V42).

So, to conclude if you're reading this post 2 days before your exam like me please don't panic. The official exam is pretty similar to GMATprep tests.

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In my own experience, the actual GMAT exam was harder than the prep one, espcially on Verbal part.

My score in 5 preps:

Test 1: 1st take 560 (when I started my GMAT journey 3 months ago) - 2nd take 720 (6wks ago)
Test 2: 740 (5wks ago)
Test 3: 710 (4 wks ago - I had a cold that day so maybe that explained why I fell down)
Test 4: 750 (Last week)
Test 5: 760 (3 days ago) (Q50 - V41)

I took the test yesterday and ended up with 720 (Q50-V36). The IR is accurate though (I got IR 8 in the last 4 preps and 8 in the real one)
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Hi B181013ME,

Great job and great advice!
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