Which CAT comes next?

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Which CAT comes next?

by saberprivateer » Sun May 18, 2008 3:29 pm
I'm thinking of doing GMATprep #2 instead of MGMAT #3 next weekend...thoughts?

Sooo...I haven't been getting in as much OG practice as I'd like. People keep bugging me! I'm still only in the first third or so an have a fine hit rate (~95%). I'm thinking of skipping ahead to the sencond third because my ?/day is starting to get pretty high.

I took another CAT today and scored the same...my quant went up but my verbal went down. :-/ I still can't seem to crack a 50 quant either. Here's my progression. Over the week I'm going to put in my 2 week notice, do more OG problems, and then do another CAT this weekend. I've heard a lot of people do the GMATpreps repeatedly...I've got time for maybe 3 more CAT tests.

GMATprep #1: 680
Kaplan Paper: 670
Kaplan Online: 640
MGMAT #1: 700
MGMAT #2: 700

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by mayonnai5e » Sun May 18, 2008 3:58 pm
I would keep doing the MGMAT cats and save the GMATPrep cat until later. Yes, you can reinstall GMATPrep and retake the exams, but your scores will be tainted by question repeats. GMATPrep already contains some questions from the OG books and as such may give somewhat inflated scores so reinstalling exacerbates this problem even more. The MGMAT cats are probably the next best ones available so I would recommend continuing down that track. In addition, doing the same cat from the same provider means you can compare the scores and measure your improvement; you are comparing apples to apples using the same cats week after week.
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