PBT - will it reduce CAT performance?

arunmmw wrote:I am using plenty of paper based training materials and i have taken few CAT using my laptop, and i dont have any desktop machine to practice the CAT. My question is, will my preparation using laptop and paper based materials reduce my performance in real exam (desktop computer test)?

wait, just to make sure i understand correctly: you have practiced cat exams, then, only on a laptop?

in that case, the difference between your experience and the real thing should be thoroughly negligible. the only meaningful difference will be that your head will be cocked up at a slightly higher angle than you're probably used to.

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on the other hand, if you're trying to say that you've only practiced using paper-based materials, because of the lack of an available desktop machine, then it is absolutely imperative that you practice real CAT's sometime soon. even if you obey the timing restrictions religiously, and don't peek ahead at the remaining questions, the paper tests are still a poor simulacrum of the real thing, because they are in no way adaptive.