GMAT Strategy

Hi guys and gals,

I am only aspiring to beat the GMAT (the date is about a month from today), so technically I shouldn't be posting in this section... but I thought that you lucky ones are the right crowd to ask this question: how predictive (in your experience, AFTER you took the real GMAT) are GMAT Prep test scores of your actual GMAT score?

I took two official GMAT prep tests, and scored 750 on both (took them within a week of each other), Q49,V42 on one attempt, and Q48, V44 on the other attempt. Pretty consistent. I will be happy with a score of around 710 on the real GMAT, and accounting for the nerves/having to write AWAs, I think I can do it. BUT: I am worried--are the questions I got on the prep tests indicative of the level of difficulty of the questions I'll be getting on the real GMAT?

Quant section worries me more than Verbal. It didn't seem overwhelmingly complicated in either GMAT prep test. I didn't get a single probability question, for example. In addition, I tried taking MGMAT yesterday, and the difficulty of quant questions horrified me (they also weren't phrased the way GMAT prep q's are). They all(!) were beyond the most difficult q's I saw in OG12. I still scored 43, but I didn't give it my best (was so surprised by what I'm seeing that just wanted it to be over and done with). Didn't do the verbal section...

Let me know what you think, and how it went in your personal experience. I'm studying mostly with the OG12 and the OG verbal and quant reviews, 2nd edition + the Princeton Review.

Thanks,
K.