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Manhattan GMAT 19 Jan 2008, 23:31
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DO you think Quant and Verbal sections are reflective of the real test? More difficult or easier? Accurate scoring? What are your thoughts?

Based on peoples' reviews I focused on those and not 800.com tests. I've been saving GMAT Prep...
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I took 4 out of 6 Manhattan GMAT CAT's while preparing for the actual test. I think the questions in both verbal and quantitative are a shade harder and more time-consuming than on the actual GMAT. But the tests do offer useful practice and test a significant amount of content that's on the GMAT. Just don't focus too much on the CAT scores.

There was a 40-50 point spread on my overall Manhattan GMAT scores and my GMATPrep and actual GMAT scores; all tests were taken within a relatively short period of time.
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Manhattan GMAT 20 Jan 2008, 04:47
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I took 4 out of 6 Manhattan GMAT CAT's while preparing for the actual test. I think the questions in both verbal and quantitative are a shade harder and more time-consuming than on the actual GMAT. But the tests do offer useful practice and test a significant amount of content that's on the GMAT. Just don't focus too much on the CAT scores.

There was a 40-50 point spread on my overall Manhattan GMAT scores and my GMATPrep and actual GMAT scores; all tests were taken within a relatively short period of time.
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Do you mean, if you score 700 on MGMAT tests, you will score 750 on GMAT prep or is the spread on negative side?
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Manhattan GMAT 20 Jan 2008, 07:38
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I'm just telling you what happened in my personal case. I took a GMATPrep and Manhattan GMAT CAT in the same week or so and I got 700 on the GMATPrep followed by 650 on MGMAT.

2 weeks before my actual GMAT, I took my final MGMAT CAT and I got my highest ever MGMAT score of 690. My actual GMAT score was 740.

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I took 4 out of 6 Manhattan GMAT CAT's while preparing for the actual test. I think the questions in both verbal and quantitative are a shade harder and more time-consuming than on the actual GMAT. But the tests do offer useful practice and test a significant amount of content that's on the GMAT. Just don't focus too much on the CAT scores.

There was a 40-50 point spread on my overall Manhattan GMAT scores and my GMATPrep and actual GMAT scores; all tests were taken within a relatively short period of time.

Do you mean, if you score 700 on MGMAT tests, you will score 750 on GMAT prep or is the spread on negative side?
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I have taken 3 MGMAT CATS and performed badly in the quant simply because i find their questions very time consuming and then i run out of time so I have to guess at least the last 5.

I tend to "fight" some of their questions in the 700-800 range, and get half of these correct (spend way too much time on them) or spend 1-2 mins and guess and get wrong. The thing is I do not let that get me down. It just a matter of practice.

My highest Quant score on my 3 MGMAT is 45, lowest is 38. I have done GMATPrep1 and scored 49 on the quant.

So bottom line, use MGMAT quant to learn concepts (their explanations are excellent), and use it to do some really bootcamp type CAT training, since it is tough.
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DO you think Quant and Verbal sections are reflective of the real test? More difficult or easier? Accurate scoring? What are your thoughts?

Based on peoples' reviews I focused on those and not 800.com tests. I've been saving GMAT Prep...
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may not reflect actual test, may not be accurate in scoring. However, since the real Gmat will be somewhat tougher than gmatprep or OG11 Qs, you need to work on MGMAT so you become handy with tougher questions. Do not do these 2 weeks before the real exam; you will lose the confidence.
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