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Kaplan GMAT Premier 2011

by Trekib » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:21 pm
I know this subject has been discussed to death, however, are the scoring algorithms on the CAT tests on the CD-ROM included with the new Kaplan GMAT Premier 2011 book the older ones? I had a disappointing result this afternoon compared to the GMAT prep CAT's I've taken.
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by vineeshp » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:11 pm
Kaplan tests are tougher.

I scored 590 when I took a Kaplan test for the first time (At a similar point of time, I got 690 on the GMAT Prep).
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by Trekib » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:12 am
That's good to know. It seems that the arithmetic problems on the Kaplan CAT's are more involved and complicated than in the GMAT prep material. Arithmetic is normally my strong suit, I scored about 70-75% on the arithmetic problems in the OG according to the error tracking log. However, the CAT I just took provided drastically different results, 40%. After, going back through the problems I had made some stupid errors, so who knows.
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by KapTeacherEli » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:06 pm
Hi Trekib,

I know we're constantly striving to improve our CATs, but I'm not sure whether the 2011 premier book has updated tests [email protected] will be able to give you a better answer.

Regardless, even our old algorithms are mostly accurate--if they're off, it's not by much. And even so, every test you take is valuable regardless. Take a look at the errors you made for your error log. Those are the key to test day success!

Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you!
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www.kaptest.com/gmat

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by rohu27 » Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:15 am
Eli,

I have access to 6 online kaplan tests(via kaplan premier live online 2010 edition). Any idea if they have the so called updated versions of CAT or still the older ones? one of them is a paper based CAT, and i observed CAT 2 is not adaptive?
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