I would like some expert advice (preferably someone from knewton) on this, or hear your own experiences. I know that there is another thread out there where the poster is suggesting that the Newton CAT greatly underestimates your score. I think that his proves it with a case that is much much more extreme.
I want to preface this by saying that I have been studying for the GMAT for the past month pretty aggressively and have taken ~6 other cats. I have been recently scoring in the 48-50 range for quant on MGMAT and 800Score.
I just took the 1st Knewton CAT. Here are my results on the quantitative section:
https://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8172 ... nquant.jpg
I got 3 questions wrong and 34 right out of 37, yet I only got a 46 on the section suggesting that I am in the 76th percentile.
The questions never got more difficult despite the fact that I answered 27 consecutive questions correctly! I understand that you are not scored by the number of questions correct, but by the difficulty of questions you answer correctly. But why did the questions NEVER get harder? Doesn't seem very adaptive at all... I finished the test with about 5 minutes left... Seems to me that they are trying to keep baseline scores for their 50point guarantee low...
Some of you may justify my low score by saying I answered 2 out of the first 10 questions incorrectly. But I have heard that the real GMAT test does not score this way (according to many sources including GMAC). In fact, Here are the results of my most recent MGMAT CAT in which I scored a 48 on quant:
https://img101.imageshack.us/img101/771/mgmatquant.jpg
On this test, I also got two wrong in the first 10. But went on to get many more wrong and not even finish the test... yet I score 2 points and 10percentiles higher?
It seems like the MGMAT lets you bounce back from a couple incorrect questions up front, where the Knewton test doesn't allow that (assuming there aren't other fundamental problems with Knewton CATS- big assumption). Which is it on test day?
I want to preface this by saying that I have been studying for the GMAT for the past month pretty aggressively and have taken ~6 other cats. I have been recently scoring in the 48-50 range for quant on MGMAT and 800Score.
I just took the 1st Knewton CAT. Here are my results on the quantitative section:
https://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8172 ... nquant.jpg
I got 3 questions wrong and 34 right out of 37, yet I only got a 46 on the section suggesting that I am in the 76th percentile.
The questions never got more difficult despite the fact that I answered 27 consecutive questions correctly! I understand that you are not scored by the number of questions correct, but by the difficulty of questions you answer correctly. But why did the questions NEVER get harder? Doesn't seem very adaptive at all... I finished the test with about 5 minutes left... Seems to me that they are trying to keep baseline scores for their 50point guarantee low...
Some of you may justify my low score by saying I answered 2 out of the first 10 questions incorrectly. But I have heard that the real GMAT test does not score this way (according to many sources including GMAC). In fact, Here are the results of my most recent MGMAT CAT in which I scored a 48 on quant:
https://img101.imageshack.us/img101/771/mgmatquant.jpg
On this test, I also got two wrong in the first 10. But went on to get many more wrong and not even finish the test... yet I score 2 points and 10percentiles higher?
It seems like the MGMAT lets you bounce back from a couple incorrect questions up front, where the Knewton test doesn't allow that (assuming there aren't other fundamental problems with Knewton CATS- big assumption). Which is it on test day?
