GMAT Practice Set 3-6

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Friends - quick question. For those practice tests that we can buy on the website, are the questions for Set 3-6 coming from same pool of questions? So if me and my friend purchase Set 3-6, will we have pretty much the same set of questions?

Braintree · Answer

Exams 3&4 come from one pool (‘exam pack 1’), and 5&6 come from another (‘exam pack 2’). But if you attempt any of these tests once, none of the questions you see will overlap. Moreover, these questions are not present in any other gmat product currently available for sale or for free(gmat prep) on GMAC’s site.

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bb · Answer

The short answer is yes.

The long answer is that you can actually reset tests in the question bank three, four, five and six. You can do one reset only. However, the database of questions is exactly the same as the number of questions you get in the test, so resetting those tests will not give you access to any more questions, it will simply allow you to retake the same test, which will, potentially give you questions in a different order, but they will be the exact same ones.

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Archit3110 · Answer

Yes pool of quality is same , but upon reset of test you can get different questions as well..

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bb · Answer

Are you sure? I am pretty certain based on feedback that it is the same set of questions. I don’t want to waste a license to check and prove but I believe the quant database of tests 3&4 is 64 questions, enough just for a test…

The only difference Exam 6 has no hard questions….

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

If there is a vast difference in scoring ability between two test-takers, it wouldn't be surprising for most of the questions on a Mock to be different - even though the pool of questions for that Mock are the same.

bb · Answer

Yes. Your statement t assumes there are more equations in the question bank than presented to a test taker in a test. That assumption is not valid for tests 3/4 and 5/6.

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MartyTargetTestPrep · Answer

I strongly doubt that each of those tests has only 31 quant and 36 verbal questions and is completely non-adaptive. Without being adaptive, the practice tests wouldn't work.

People with strong skills would see many easy questions and finish the test early and easily score very high, and people not as skilled would be faced with many questions that they'd have no idea how to answer.

The only reason why the GMAT can use only around 30 questions per section and still produce a meaningful score is that it's adaptive. It's for a similar reason that the new digital SAT, which is adaptive, can be so much shorter than the paper-based SAT, which isn't adaptive.

So, without being adaptive, practice tests 3 to 6 would not produce accurate scores.

What can be the case is that each of those tests has only enough questions to produce one set of questions for each skill level. For instance, for a test-taker who is at around 46 in quant, test 3 may be able to provide, basically, one set of questions that fits that test-taker's skill level. If that test-taker retakes and scores close to Q45, the test will provide mostly the same questions.

In any case, it's straightforward to determine how many questions are in the banks for those tests since people have taken the time to find all the questions from tests 3 to 6. So, the counts are available.  ChiranjeevSingh  probably knows.

shyoo86 · Answer

Thank you all for your info. I've used all 6 exams (+ resets so really 12) and my scores have been pretty consistent. Now, that I am trying retake the exam (applying Jan and all other stuffs pretty all finished), I wanted to review by doing the mocks one more time so I've created a 2nd account and retried exam 1&2 and did realize that good number of questions were from my original account. Now, since exam 3-6 are not free, I was wondering if I purchase them again, will those not have any many repeats as exam 1&2 so I was just asking if anyone had similar experience.

What I am seeing is that the question bank won't be large enough for me to see completely diff set of questions so this is good to know!

What I am seeing is that the question bank won't be large enough for me to see completely diff set of questions so this is good to know!

shyoo86 · Answer

Thank you for sharing. I would love to also know if ChiranjeeSingh can share to see if it will be worth the money to purchase a new set of 3-6.

MartyTargetTestPrep · Answer

If you have already taken those tests twice, in taking them again, you will see many repeated questions, and as a result, your experience won't be representative of the experience of taking the GMAT, and your score will be inflated.

So, it's probably not worthwhile to purchase them again. You're likely better off using some of the better third-party practice tests or even creating practice sets composed of 31 official quant questions and 36 official verbal questions.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

If you reset exams 3 through 6, you will see a lot of repeated questions. I'm not sure if would be worth it.

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