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which score should I rely on: Veritas or Manhattan?

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which score should I rely on: Veritas or Manhattan? [#permalink] New post   10 Mar 2014, 04:50
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I have been preparing for months.
Last week I took Veritas prep CAT and got 710 ( q47 v40) yesterday I took MGMAT CAT and got 590
( q39 v33) and found quant questions of.2 exams really different (I heard veritas has changed dufficulty of its quant questions and has made them more difficult) and in my point of view RC passages of MGMAT CAT were lenghty while they had just 3 questions.

During the period between 2 exams I was studiying hard everyday.

When I checked my MGMAT. CAT I realized the algorithm gave me 6 500 level questions in a row while I answered them
All correct. I think after 2 correct 500 level qhestion it should have given one 600 level question.

Please give me advice and let me know what you think.
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Re: which score should I rely on: Veritas or Manhattan? [#permalink] New post   10 Mar 2014, 07:35
hamidmax wrote:
Hi

I have been preparing for months.
Last week I took Veritas prep CAT and got 710 ( q47 v40) yesterday I took MGMAT CAT and got 590
( q39 v33) and found quant questions of.2 exams really different (I heard veritas has changed dufficulty of its quant questions and has made them more difficult) and in my point of view RC passages of MGMAT CAT were lenghty while they had just 3 questions.

During the period between 2 exams I was studiying hard everyday.

When I checked my MGMAT. CAT I realized the algorithm gave me 6 500 level questions in a row while I answered them
All correct. I think after 2 correct 500 level qhestion it should have given one 600 level question.

Please give me advice and let me know what you think.


Hi hamidmax,
Please don't overthink about any particular mock test.
So the answer to your question "which score should I rely on?" is "NONE".

What you need to understand is the exact algorithm for scoring on GMAT is not known to anyone except GMAC.
So there is no point in judging which test is better or more reliable because they all will have some demerits.

Now what you should definitely bother about is: How do you use these tests to get the best score?

And the answer is that you should take lots of Full Length Tests, as many as possible and review each one of them thoroughly.
You should shift your focus from the Score that appears on the screen to the mistakes you make and challenges you face.
Once you start doing well on all types of tests published by different companies, you will have a reason to believe that you are going to ace the GMAT. :)

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Re: which score should I rely on: Veritas or Manhattan? [#permalink] New post   11 Mar 2014, 13:27
From my experience manhattan is better.
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Re: which score should I rely on: Veritas or Manhattan? [#permalink] New post   13 Mar 2014, 08:53
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I know it's frustrating that you received two wildly different GMAT sim test scores, but try not to let that worry you. As the previous poster stated, you should actually be taking a lot of sim tests. The best thing for you to do is keep plugging away at practicing and taking more sim tests.

A score can dip from one exam to another even with the same amount of knowledge or the same percentage of correct/incorrect. The GMAT scoring algorithm takes many factors into account including where you make errors, how many mistakes you commit in a row, whether you finish both sections or leave questions out, whether the last few questions of either section seemed like they were guessed at, how you felt on test day, etc. These factors can all affect your score.

From one test to the next you can easily jump +/- 30 points (and even up to 80 or so) depending on where the mistakes are made. *Where* you make mistakes can often be more important than how many. Overall, when a student wants to know where he/she stands, the best way to do so is to take the average after a few sim tests. This should get you to a fairly close estimation of where you are at.

As for Economist GMAT Tutor, in general, our students tend to score within about +/- 30 points or so from what they get on our tests and the GMAT test preps.
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