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Topic: Practice scores v. Actual scores
Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:15 pm

How do practice scores relate to the actual test? I am ranging from 350 to 550 on practices of gmatprep, manhattan, etc. Should I anticipate the actual test being lower or the same or higher?

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Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:12 am

Porsche05 wrote: How do practice scores relate to the actual test? I am ranging from 350 to 550 on practices of gmatprep, manhattan, etc. Should I anticipate the actual test being lower or the same or higher? Well,200 - thats quite a wide range u are talking about. Can you give some details about individual tests?? _________________ Just because something is hard doesn't mean you shouldn't try,it means you should just try harder. "Keep Walking" - Johnny Walker http://www.beatthegmat.com/who-will-win-the-ipl-t54684.html#236707

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Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:59 am

Sure, on the free manhattan one, I cannot seem to get higher than 400, mainly because of the data sufficiency. On GMATPrep, I am ranging from 350 to 5xx, with the same thing, my main issues being data sufficiency and a few of the critical reasoning. My target score right now is 650, although I would like to go higher, but until I achieve 650, I am not setting it too high, seeing that I cannot break out of scores fluctuating from 350 to 400 to 500 or so.