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Which company makes the best GMAT practice tests (excluding GMATPrep)?
Princeton Review
14%
 14%  [ 150 ]
Kaplan
27%
 27%  [ 276 ]
Manhattan GMAT
50%
 50%  [ 515 ]
Other? (Please let us know)
7%
 7%  [ 75 ]
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PostWed Sep 30, 2009 6:03 pm Reply with quote
kanhaiya wrote:
As far as the difficulty level goes Kaplan are the toughest especially the Verbal section.
Also the sectional tests that they provide are very good practice.

GMAT prep is the ultimate one though, keep on practicing on that same software until you reach 750, believe me there wont be much difference between your actual score and the mock score.
I want to respectively disagree. I think that the Kaplan verbal section was not realistic. In addition to there being typos in Gmat Premier's Sentence Correction questions, the scores in my study group for verbal with Kaplan have been WAY lower than those of GMAT prep.

In general, I have found that Kaplan's GMAT score is way too low but the content difficulty is too easy.

I would recommend PowerScore and Platinum's GMAT practice test.
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PostMon Oct 12, 2009 4:33 pm Reply with quote
I have used both PR and MGMAT.

I honestly feel that the MGMAT CAT tests are entirely different from PR. I can score 600+ on PR but I can't come close to that with MGMAT. The quant questions on MGMAT seem to be longer and more drawn out, and on a completely different level of difficulty.

I am honestly nervous considering that most users who have vote are reporting MGMAT as a better source of practice...which I am taking as a closer measure of score.
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PostMon Oct 26, 2009 6:30 am Reply with quote
I just completed the Power Prep 30 practice test. I don't know the year of release of this but this practice test is NOT a good indicator of your overall performance at all. I am by no means a 700+ GMAT student, but this test made blaring calculation errors. For instance, 80% of 30,000 is 25,000!

I knew that this test must have been old, because I saw a lot of questions from OG 11 on it. I remember some of the CR questions from it and again, more errors! I was so sure that the test was wrong that I checked OG 11 and sure enough, the test had the exact question from the book wrong. No wonder ETS no longer has the rights to the GMAT. DO NOT waste your time on the Power Prep 30 practice test.
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PostFri Nov 13, 2009 4:17 pm Reply with quote
Hi

I guess I need some enlightment here. The GMAT Prep, is that the one you can download for free from mba.com (the 2 free practice tests)? Can you go back to download 2 more tests to find that they are different questions or do the 2 tests have the standard same questions? I'm hoping every time you download, the questions are different but we know life isn't that convenient!
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