I took a MGMAT CAT lately and i was really struggling with the timing in Quants..I could hardly finish 30 questions in 75 minutes..It has really got me worried..Is this faced by everyone?
at what level were these questions?
there are 2 things that may be at work here:
(1) some of our highest-level problems contain a bit more work than do comparable problems on the official tests. they aren't necessarily harder; they just require more steps / more labor than do the official problems.
(2) our tests don't currently contain any experimental questions, so, if you're scoring at a high level, all of the problems on the test will be pretty hard. by contrast, on the official exam, the experimental questions (of which there are 9-10 per section) will always be of random difficulty levels, so you're guaranteed at least a few easier ones even if you're nailing the exam.
if you're scoring at a high level, then either or both of these may be affecting your test.
we realize that this causes a slight discrepancy with the official exams, but, because the vast majority of students have problems with taking too much time, the extra time pressure is a very good thing indeed: it really lights a fire under students in terms of better time management.
also, if you're not seeing relatively large numbers of 700+ level questions in your cat exam analysis, then neither of the above issues should matter very much in your case.
. i have got 16 correct out of the 31 attended which ended up in Quants score of 40. But having to miss 6 questions in Quants pissed me off so much i refused to take the verbal section.
This clears a lot of doubts I had.
