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The logic on prep companies verbal?

by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Fri Jan 22, 2010 6:34 am
I don't know whether or not I should be concerned. I took a MGMAT CAT last night and did horribly on the verbal because I missed over half of the Critical Reasoning questions, yet when I took the GMAT prep test, I got all of them right except one? Has this happened to anyone else?
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by DanaJ » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:03 am
Yeah, I've had the same issue with verbal... I think that most prep companies do not get it quite right - the only one that really felt like high quality material was the CR Bible... Kaplan's questions can be way off, but MGMAT RCs and SCs are somewhat similar to official stuff. Can't remember anything specific about their CR, must have been somewhere in the middle.
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:15 am
Thanks for the reply Dana. I used Powerscore as well, and the CR questions on Manhattan CATs don't seem to be based on formal logic, or at least none of their weakening/strengthening and assumption scenarios matched anything in the powerscore guide. I will ignore the results from the verbal and just focus on my improved quant performance :)
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by DanaJ » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:25 am
I'm not 100% sure you should ignore all verbal results - just to analyze them in context, that's all I'm saying. Besides that, MGMAT tests are still kind of second best after the GMATprep tests. So my advice is: don't ignore, but don't panic either!
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by sreak1089 » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:23 am
Hi osirus0830,

I think you can dissect MGMAT results a little bit. Did you check what was the average difficulty of the right questions and the accuracy? What were the difficulty level of the questions that you answered incorrectly? What type of questions are you answering incorrectly? Are they inference questions, or weaken, strengthen, or assumption questions?

I find majority MGMAT questions are correleation-causation types and numbers percentages..Just my perception ..

btw, my average difficulty level of questions of CR is 680 with accuracy of 60%. I don't know if that is good or bad...
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:37 am
sreak1089 wrote:Hi osirus0830,

I think you can dissect MGMAT results a little bit. Did you check what was the average difficulty of the right questions and the accuracy? What were the difficulty level of the questions that you answered incorrectly? What type of questions are you answering incorrectly? Are they inference questions, or weaken, strengthen, or assumption questions?

I find majority MGMAT questions are correleation-causation types and numbers percentages..Just my perception ..

btw, my average difficulty level of questions of CR is 680 with accuracy of 60%. I don't know if that is good or bad...
All the questions I'm missing are 700-800 level questions, but that's not even the issue in my mind. Its the logic they use for their "correct" answers. The logic doesn't match anything I read in powerscore, so I'm not viewing it as valid. I'm mainly just using MGMAT verbal for Sentence Correction since that is my biggest weakness and that is their strength.
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