"Practice" GMAT

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BlueHappy: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 4; Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:07 pm

by BlueHappy » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:24 pm

In school I would do substantially better if I got a second run at something, do you think I should do a "practice" GMAT, cancel the score, finish prep, do the real GMAT?

If you do the GMAT (cancel or not) does it tell you which questions you got wrong or otherwise give you a chance to learn from it? Otherwise I think just being more comfortable the second time is still a perk

I heard some nefarious writers have written a "practice" test with a different address or something so that it wouldn't count.

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by Toph@GMAT_REBOOT » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:22 pm

GMAT Prep exams give you two "practice" GMATS :!:

This alternative is a lot cheaper. Plus if you cancel your score , you're never truly going to know what level of questions you were getting.

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by siownschu » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:50 pm

if you choose to go with the real exam and use the score as your benchmark I would not cancel the score

my reasoning is most schools do not take into account your previous scores, and if you do choose to use is as a benchmark then you want to know the score right? or you will not know if you improved in your studies or not

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by LSB » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:00 pm

I heard some nefarious writers have written a "practice" test with a different address or something so that it wouldn't count.

I don't that's possible. They take finger prints at the test center (some test centers have started doing retina scans) and you need to show a passport. There is no way you can fake who you are in order to do a "practice" test without having the score on record.

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by aim-wsc » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:35 pm

GMAT prep is A MUCH better choice of doing ^practice test^.

Reasons:
The Graphical user interface is same to real GMAT so you'd have almost the real experience
it's cheaper, oh it's free.
you can see which questions you answered wrong & which ones correctly.
ie. you can analyse your performance after the test
your 'mock' score will remain secret.
In real GMAT you cannot see final score before(/if) you decide to cancel the test.

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