Hello fellow GMATers,
I have been following the forums for a while now and reading your reviews and GMAT experiences although didn't have the chance of participating too much.
I started working toward my GMAT in mid April 2012. Seeing I wanted to apply for September 2012, I thought the best would be to sign up to a GMAT prep class and I chose Kaplan. I have finished their 9 class course a couple of weeks ago, which was useful and I thought I learnt as I progressed.
There are 9 CATs in Kaplan. I work full time so I kept more or less up to date with homework, yet I couldn't keep up with a good test pace and thought I'd attack them after my courses were done and after I covered all their classes and other homework relating to the topics we covered in class. At this stage I have done 3 tests, and got the same score for all of them.
After 1 month of prep (and all my Kaplan classes done) my score has not improved at the slightest.
I've read that Kaplan tests are harder and/or score less than the actual GMAT around in the forums (for example, in Eric's post here: https://www.beatthegmat.com/720-96th-per ... t-t13.html ): does this still hold true? I see that Eric, for example, had a score of 720 in GMAT Prep and 600's for Kaplan.
Otherwise, it's kind of hard for me to accept that after all these hours of work I haven't improved at all. It's also kind of illogical since people who prep on their own improved slightly between tests: how come, even with Kaplan's help, I'm not getting past my diagnostic score?
I hope you are still with me after such a long post. Any recommendation would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks
PS: I may give a MGMAT CAT a go next week and see how that works out. Are those reliable?
I have been following the forums for a while now and reading your reviews and GMAT experiences although didn't have the chance of participating too much.
I started working toward my GMAT in mid April 2012. Seeing I wanted to apply for September 2012, I thought the best would be to sign up to a GMAT prep class and I chose Kaplan. I have finished their 9 class course a couple of weeks ago, which was useful and I thought I learnt as I progressed.
There are 9 CATs in Kaplan. I work full time so I kept more or less up to date with homework, yet I couldn't keep up with a good test pace and thought I'd attack them after my courses were done and after I covered all their classes and other homework relating to the topics we covered in class. At this stage I have done 3 tests, and got the same score for all of them.
After 1 month of prep (and all my Kaplan classes done) my score has not improved at the slightest.
I've read that Kaplan tests are harder and/or score less than the actual GMAT around in the forums (for example, in Eric's post here: https://www.beatthegmat.com/720-96th-per ... t-t13.html ): does this still hold true? I see that Eric, for example, had a score of 720 in GMAT Prep and 600's for Kaplan.
Otherwise, it's kind of hard for me to accept that after all these hours of work I haven't improved at all. It's also kind of illogical since people who prep on their own improved slightly between tests: how come, even with Kaplan's help, I'm not getting past my diagnostic score?
I hope you are still with me after such a long post. Any recommendation would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks
PS: I may give a MGMAT CAT a go next week and see how that works out. Are those reliable?
Last edited by charcbb on Tue May 22, 2012 11:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
