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700 in MGMAT to 640 in GPREP!!!

by riteshbindal » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:22 pm
I am really confused with what my real score can be. I took MGMAT test last week and scored 700 (Q47/V38). I thought that this is a decent score as I have always seen that people score around 30 - 50 more in real GMAT than they score in MGMAT.
Then I took GMAT Prep 1 today and scored a meager 640 (Q49/V28)!!!
V28 is pretty low.

If we consider first 10 questions, then I did 7/10 correct in quanta and 8/10 correct in verbal. I thought this should have boosted my score but ended up getting 49 in Quanta and just 28 in Verbal.

When I analyzed the type of questions I did wrong, I found out that
S.C. - 5/16 correct (31%)!!!
R.C. - 9/13 correct (69%)
C.R. - 8/12 correct (66%)

S.C. was never such a major issue for me. In MGMAT, my avg difficulty of right answer is 690 and I thought that this is not so bad.

I really don't know what to do now. I have just one more GPrep left to assess my capability but I am not sure as what should I work on. Should it be just S.C.? If yes, then from which book?


Please help. Help of experts will really be appreciated!

Thanks,
Ritesh
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by NicoFalcon » Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:02 am
Hi there, have only done 2 MGMATs and 1 GMATPrep, while gone through all "official" prep material and MGMAT SC guide, so take my advice with a pinch of salt:

Although I agree with most people who point out that MGMAT tests are the closest to the real thing, I´m not quite sure about MGMAT Quant being much harder in MGMAT than in the actual GMAT. From my point of view, Quant in the MGMAT is just different, not harder, it focuses far more in combinatronics and it´s problems are a little longer, while focusing less in number properties and probablity, compared to the GMAT.

What I do think, on the other hand, and haven´t seen it mentioned elsewhere, is that Verbal is really more difficult in MGMAT than in the real thing. Verbal has been, almost from the beggining, my strong point in the test (I said verbal, not writing hehe). I´ve had >90% accuracy in both RC and CR, while achieving around 75% in SC (the weakest part of my game). In my only GMATPrep test to date, I scored 41 in verbal, and when I reviewed the questions my right/wrong questions were pretty much in line with my assesment (RC>CR>SC ). After my 2 MGMAT CATs I have struggled to go further than 36 in V (I had two IDENTICAL scores on my two exams), while doing much better in Q. Furthermore, albeit being mediocre in SC (which is not surprising, hehe), I really underperformed in RC, which leads my to believe it´s not really the same difficulty level as in the real GMAT (or maybe I just want to believe that).

Well, those were my 2 cents

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