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any heads up on the difficulty level of veritas tests??? Tougher/Easier than GMAT.. for both quant and verbal?

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Hi gmathopeful90,

The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. It takes into account a number of different factors, including the relative difficulty of the question, whether you were expected to get it correct or not, the placement of the question, what's going on "around it", the "strings" of correct and incorrect answers, whether the question even counts or not (some questions are "experimental" and are worth 0), if you leave questions unanswered and incur a penalty, etc.

While there are many brand-name CATs that can provide a reasonable score assessment of your abilities, none of them has the exact same algorithm as the Official GMAT. A far more useful gauge (other than the number of correct/incorrect answers) would be to review the CAT and determine how many questions you SHOULD have gotten correct, but didn't (due to a silly/little mistake). Those mistakes are the things that you have to fix to score at a higher level.

Have you taken any of the GMAT Prep CATs yet? If so, then how did you score?

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You have brought to light a very important point. I scored 690 on the first GMATPrep . q49 and v35.
I will be giving the second very soon. I have my official GMAT in one month.

Also I'm thinking of paying for two extra GMAT prep official tests. Will it be money well spent? Will the questions I have faced in the first 2 free tests get repeated in those?

Thanks :)
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You have brought to light a very important point. I scored 690 on the first GMATPrep . q49 and v35.
I will be giving the second very soon. I have my official GMAT in one month.

Also I'm thinking of paying for two extra GMAT prep official tests. Will it be money well spent? Will the questions I have faced in the first 2 free tests get repeated in those?

Thanks :)
I would definitely purchase the additional GMATPrep exams and do them over any other test prep company's exams.

I don't think any questions from the first two exams will be repeated in exam pack 1 but sometimes you will see repeat questions within exam pack 1 (usually if you are scoring pretty high as it will run out of those higher level difficulty questions.

I personally liked question pack 1 as well from GMAC. The official resources are the best for studying. No reason not to use all the resources from GMAC.

In terms of the Veritas Prep exams, I often found the Quant and Verbal sections to be slightly harder than what you would see on the actual exam. Overall a good representation but it is just too difficult to make actual GMAT questions. Definitely another good investment for $50.
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