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heshamelaziry: Legendary Member; Posts: 869; Joined: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:49 pmFollowed by: 3 members; Location: California; Thanked: 13 times

by heshamelaziry » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:42 pm

I have just taken a test and socred bad in math. Is Knewton Math more difficult than than Kaplan, Mgmat, and gprep ?

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by sreak1089 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:04 am

I have taken Knewton Free test and found their math to be ridiculously easy. I am not too sure of their course content though. I have not tried Knewton.

However, I have all the MGMAT Quant materials, Number properties, Word translations and Geometry. I found Number properties and Word translations to be excellent material.

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DanaJ: Site Admin; Posts: 2567; Joined: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:05 amFollowed by: 550 members; Thanked: 712 times; GMAT Score:770

by DanaJ » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:38 am

I've seen people here and there say that Knewtown math is very easy, but I did not get that impression for my test. I actually had one of the lowest quant scores even in their free test. This was particularly worrisome because I took it just like one week before the real thing.
I'd say it depends...

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by heshamelaziry » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:41 am

Thanks Dana. You have just given me a shot of confidence that I needed badly. I scored horribly in their quant section and was worried.

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by sreak1089 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:54 am

Hi,

Oh yes, I must agree with DanaJ ! Even though I found the test to be easy and answered 34 questions correctly, yet I got only Q45 !! If you score those many number of questions correctly on GMATPrep or MGMAT, you must expect to score Q49+ I think !!!

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heshamelaziry: Legendary Member; Posts: 869; Joined: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:49 pmFollowed by: 3 members; Location: California; Thanked: 13 times

by heshamelaziry » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:57 am

sreak1089 wrote:Hi,

Oh yes, I must agree with DanaJ ! Even though I found the test to be easy and answered 34 questions correctly, yet I got only Q45 !! If you score those many number of questions correctly on GMATPrep or MGMAT, you must expect to score Q49+ I think !!!

I answered 28 questions correctly in Verbal, yet my score was 27 ! I think this not correct score as well ?

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DanaJ: Site Admin; Posts: 2567; Joined: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:05 amFollowed by: 550 members; Thanked: 712 times; GMAT Score:770

by DanaJ » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:07 am

Yes, I'd say that their algorithm is not accurate in verbal either. I myself got only 3 wrong but ended up with a 45.

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by pandeyvineet24 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:41 am

i took the Knewton diagnostic scored 48 in Quant (5 wrong) , Verbal 35 (7 wrong). I think it worked for me.

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by uymba » Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:16 am

I took the test.
I believe their math is OK until a certain point. I believe somewhere over 700, the official GMAT is more difficult. However, as the GMAT doesn't take into account ALL questions (almost 1/4 are experimental) you don't see the negative effect of the difficult experimental questions.
The sense I got after knewton exam is that as knewton takes into account ALL the questions, they kind of penalize you more for every question you got wrong.

In the end, I believe knewton's test is kind of reflective.

I got a 730 on knewton and a 720 on real GMAT.

Good luck!

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