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OG or PowerPrep????

by ashwinkgopal » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:52 am
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I was told that doing the OG before actually doing the PowerPrep can skew the score and the real picture. Is this true? If so, should I do the OG in the end? or can I take the first test, then complete the OG and then come back to do the last test? I want the most accurate assesment of my abilities. Please help. And yeah, I've finished Manhattan. Please reply.Thanx!!

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by beatthegmat » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:56 am
The problem with PowerPrep is that there is signficiant overlap in questions with OG. I would recommend taking one PowerPrep test before OG and then one PowerPrep at the end of your prep (right before your test).

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by drhomler » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:38 pm
After having worked through the majority of the quant in the OG and virtually no verbal, I noticed approximately 2 quant overlap questions in each of the powerprep tests I took, and 1 or 2 in the Verbal section of each powerprep. I did work through all quant and SC in the two smaller books as well. I thought the practice was still useful and Im sure my scores were slightly schewed in the quant.

I would agree with Eric, take one and then work through the books and take the second one.
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by aim-wsc » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:46 pm
which OG are you reddering to drhomler?
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by drhomler » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:10 am
I have been using OG11, including the verbal and quant supplements. I feel as if there were a few overlaps in the GMATPREP as well, definitely that number line one where you have 1/5 and 1/7 hash marks and they want to know what the smallest distance between the ticks is, although I think it was presented in a slightly different manner.

Since I dont practice RC and very few CR I didnt notice anything there in either the Power or gmatprep.

I thought the SC was much easier in powerprep and that was the huge difference in my scores between the two, on both powerprep tests I scored 42(95%) and I have never scored that high on mgmat(41 was the closest I came) and on GMATPRep I think 37. For me the swings in the scores are all about how well I do on the SC I consistently miss the same amount on the CR and RC.

Incidentally I take this thing tomorrow so I hope to writing a positive(for me) debrief over the weekend.
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by Stacey Koprince » Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:57 pm
Some of the OG questions are in both the PowerPrep and GMATPrep question pools, yes. But unless you are literally memorizing hundreds of problems, it's not going to have a major impact on your score - it's not the case that you will see dozens of problems you've already seen.
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