do you recommend doing MGMAT over the Kaplan CD CATs? thanks!!mayonnai5e wrote:I've read from other members that you can take each of the two GMATPrep cats twice with only a few repeats. Doing the same test more than twice is probably a bad idea. However, be aware that seeing repeats has a significant impact on your score: 1) you'll know the answer to it immediately 2) since you know the answer immediately, you can answer within seconds and this artificially gives you more time to work on other harder questions, which in normal testing conditions you may not have. If you do see repeats, you cannot do anything about 1) but you can allot the full 2 minutes to the question (even though you know the answer) to minimize the impact of 2). This will help eliminate the time shift.
In any case, I suggest doing other respected cats if you have access (PR and MGMAT come to mind) and if you don't have access, you can shell out a few bucks to buy the books and get access. It's a worthwhile investment in my opinion.
Yes, the Kaplan cats have a bad reputation. I had the PR, MGMAT, PowerPrep and GMATPrep cats - that was about 14 cats - so I skipped the Kaplan ones.labelfree wrote:do you recommend doing MGMAT over the Kaplan CD CATs? thanks!!mayonnai5e wrote:I've read from other members that you can take each of the two GMATPrep cats twice with only a few repeats. Doing the same test more than twice is probably a bad idea. However, be aware that seeing repeats has a significant impact on your score: 1) you'll know the answer to it immediately 2) since you know the answer immediately, you can answer within seconds and this artificially gives you more time to work on other harder questions, which in normal testing conditions you may not have. If you do see repeats, you cannot do anything about 1) but you can allot the full 2 minutes to the question (even though you know the answer) to minimize the impact of 2). This will help eliminate the time shift.
In any case, I suggest doing other respected cats if you have access (PR and MGMAT come to mind) and if you don't have access, you can shell out a few bucks to buy the books and get access. It's a worthwhile investment in my opinion.
This approach is better than just answering it correctly immediately, but you can avoid this whole problem altogether by doing new cats from other companies.AleksandrM wrote:Actually what I was going to do for repeat questions is:
1) If I vaguely remember the question, try again
2) If I clearly remember the question and answered it correctly before, work it out as I did in the past and answer correctly
3) If I clrealy remember the question and answered it wrong, then I would spend 2 minutes on it and answer it wrong again to minimize its impact on my overall score (in this case making artificially higher than it would otherwise be).
