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Kaplan CAT accuracy

by Mar1nov » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:42 pm
I recently took the CAT 2 from Kaplan, and I was surprised at the results from the verbal section. Out of 41 questions, I got 28 right. Smart reports indicated that that put me in the 97th percentile. Is that even possible? I was under the impression that getting 13 questions wrong would not get me anywhere in the top 10%. Out of the first 13 I got only one wrong, and although the first 10 questions were ranked as medium difficulty, the majority of the rest were ranked as hard. Can anybody tell me how this is possible?

Please feel free to post any information regarding the accurate interpretation of the KAPLAN CATs.

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by therealtomrose » Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:57 pm
The GMAT is designed so that you will answer about 60% of the questions on any given test correctly. The variable that changes is the difficulty of the questions.

Kaplan's test is certainly designed to mimic this system.

Don't worry about your accuracy overall. It's not a useful indicator. You can answer 28 questions correctly and score a 500 just as easily as you can score a 700.
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