MGMAT CAT1

I've had pretty much equal numbers of students tell me our test is harder and our test is easier than the real thing. So... take that for whatever it's worth.

I agree that our quant tends to be more computation-intensive than the test. That's not necessarily harder.

Also, your comment about wondering how you got the score you got when yo had so many questions wrong - that's NOT how the test is scored. It's really important to make sure you understand how the test is scored.

You could get 50% of the questions wrong and still score very well - as long as the ones you're getting wrong are of very high difficulty level. When people post their scores and then add data about # right / wrong, they're focusing on the wrong data. The data you want to notice is the difficulty levels of the questions you got right vs. wrong. (That data is in your MGMAT score reports, too.)

In fact, I just had a student ask me why I called SC a strength of his when he was only scoring around 50% right. He WAS only scoring about 50% right - but the average difficulty level of the ones he got right was 710 and the average difficulty of the ones he got wrong was 750. That's the very definition of a strength.

As you get better, what you want to increase is the difficulty level of the questions you're answering, NOT (so much) the percentage correct. (Obviously, you don't want to be at 25% correct - but once you get into the 50-60% range, forget about % correct and focus on lifting the difficulty level.)