GMAT Strategy

While test prep company tests can be very good for practice and while one can learn much from them, in order to get optimal practice, many people would still rather use as many official practice tests as possible.

There are currently available only four GMAT Prep tests, and while repeating them once each can be OK, repeating them is not optimal, and retaking them more than once is a path to practice test score inflation and the problems associated with it. In this blog post, I went into detail regarding those issues.

https://infinitemindprep.com/resetting-a ... et-smoked/

So how can one get more official practice tests? Use PowerPrep, the practice test software that came out before GMAT Prep.

Yes, PowerPrep does not include an IR section, but let's face it, IR is a low priority and leaving it out of a practice test early in one's preparation is not really a significant. Neither is not taking all four sections. I realize that people want to as closely as possible duplicate the full test experience, but if you really plan on taking all four GMAT Prep tests anyway, you will get enough of that.

So what's PowerPrep good for?

PowerPrep is good for a second or third practice test. Probably one should use a GMAT Prep test as one's first practice test, in order to get an accurate sense of what the test is like and what one needs to work on in order to achieve one's score goal. Then a week or two later, as one is preparing one can use PowerPrep for the second practice test, and then, possibly, for a third test.

From what I have seen the biggest issue in PowerPrep is that the SC questions are more idiom based than current questions. If you are aware of that, you can take it into account. Other than that, PowerPrep is pretty tight and rather well matches the actual GMAT tests given today.

Also, PowerPrep contains many questions that also appear in the three Official Guides. Great, that tends to indicate that PowerPrep is still relevant today. Meanwhile, by using PowerPrep early in your preparation, you can take the tests without having already seen many of the questions via use of an OG.

So if you want some more official practice at playing the GMAT video game, using PowerPrep could be a great way to get it.

PowerPrep can be downloaded via the links on this page.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-prep-pow ... 77548.html