HOW TO CRACK VERBAL WITH 40+ ?

Not sure I completely agree with you. In my recent GMATPrep 1 I scored 680 ( 49 Q 35 V ). I had 14 / 41 errors in Verbal and a couple of 3 continous errors. For Quant, I had 12 / 37 errors most of which were in the 2nd half and also these errors were evenly spread out.

@GoBlue: That's what I meant btw

Go above 10 'incorrect' and GMATprep drops you in low V30's pretty easily.That's not what happens in other CAT's.

I cannot seem to gauge my level with other CAT's correctly, because GMATprep seems to be much much aggressive in dealing with scores in verbal (however easier the questions may look compared to other CAT's).

aslan wrote:@GoBlue: That's what I meant btw

Go above 10 'incorrect' and GMATprep drops you in low V30's pretty easily.That's not what happens in other CAT's.

I cannot seem to gauge my level with other CAT's correctly, because GMATprep seems to be much much aggressive in dealing with scores in verbal (however easier the questions may look compared to other CAT's).

Aslan, various GMAT preparation companies develop and introduce their CATs. Now, I am asking you and the BTG community: 'How many times, before going into a deal, or taking some one's word for counting, or believing something and acting thereon, had we asked ourselves - why any credit should be given at all?' I guess the vast majority of us, even easy believers, would respond 'always'.

Let's question - why we had believed in MGMAT, Princeton Review, Knewton, Kaplan, Grockit and others? Is there any statistical evidence suggesting that actual scores reported by the certain number of recent (within 5-year period) GMAT test takers and their practice CAT results are correlated? Is there any precise test deviation data used in place, except for that taken from the internet forums, web blogs? What is the sampling error, population statistics... No, there is nothing or almost nothing indicating an objective approach to the CAT algorithms distributed with the mentioned company software products. In fact, these companies could not come close to the real GMAT scoring algorithm patented after the GMAC and ACT Inc. even within 100 score deviation. Yet, some would argue and believe that MGMAT has 60+ deviation from the actual GMAT score, or Kaplan has 80+, whatever.

I have certain doubts about the GMAT Prep software too. It is unlikely that the exam scoring algorithm would be made available to the population of potential examinees. Some elements - yes, general description and imitation of the process - yes, but the mechanism of test scoring itself, - I just have strong doubts about this.

@Night reader:Here is the trouble with CATS as compared to the Quant approach:

Normally on a Quant section the CAT's and GMATprep stand really close by and you can also verify from the explanations that where "you" also stand in terms of progress made.However in verbal there is a huge deviation and when you end up on GMATprep with V31 from just a two three mistake gap, from a constant V40-V41 from other CAT's you begin to have serious doubts on where your prep had gone wrong!....It doesn't just add up at all with verbal on how the scoring is done by GMAC.

I wouldn't take on any company whatsoever (because they are again just second parties), but I just want to ask that is it just by hunch that people get V40 to V44 to V47 or V38....there is not so much question difficulty assessed here just maybe one to two mistake gaps....and to sum it all up a HUGE HUGE overall GMAT percentile gets decreased and increased as a result of this (mostly in verbal).