Three weeks prep first CAT results

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Three weeks prep first CAT results

by yogami » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:38 pm
Guys I have prepared for this for three weeks now and decided to switch to take Kaplan's free practice test online. I scored a miserable 640 (Q46, V34)
I made three mistakes in quant and all of them were stupid mistakes. But 34/37 gave me a 46 and a 96 percentile. I made 16 mistakes in verbal and got 74 percentile. Whats the deal with kaplan verbal? Its CRs are a little different than what I normally see!. One of its RC turned out to be based on some senate bill being debated and that was brutal. That RC broke me down and I lost my confidence on the remaining questions. Even their SCs are a little different than the MGMAT GMAT kind. Nonetheless I still feel that my verbal sucks. CR hit rate was 55%, RC 71% and because of lack of time I had to guess a bunch of SCs and that hit rate was a depressing 50%. I can't do anything in quant other than double check to avoid silly mistakes so there is not much scope for improvement there. I finished quant with 20 minutes to spare as compared to verbal where I had to rush the last five questions in 2 minutes. Verbal exhausts me. The huge RCs with ridiculously incomprehensible passages kill motivation. I know that I can get a 48+ in quant and might miraculously touch the 50s. But I desperately want to get to 40s in verbal. I want to prepare so much that I don't want to see any score less than 700 in my future practice tests.
200 or 800. It don't matter no more.
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by 4score20 » Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:24 pm
Kaplan is great for students aiming for 500-650. However, students trying to score higher should consider using a different source of prep such as Manhattan GMAT.

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lol

by JeffB » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:10 pm
lol 4score....do you post that in every post?

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by VP_Jim » Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:17 pm
Two quick things:

1. Never finish a section 20 minutes early! Use that extra time to check your work. Getting only 3 questions wrong while moving that quickly is pretty amazing - imagine what would happen if you slowed down a bit!

2. Since it seems that reading is your downfall, try adding 30 minutes of general reading into your study regiment. I recommend the Wall Street Journal. Pick some boring-sounding articles, read them, and quiz yourself on the primary purpose of the passage etc. This will improve your endurance and make you a better reader, in addition to strengthening your English skills in general (which will also help on CR and SC).

Good luck!
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Re: lol

by hk » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:11 pm
JeffB wrote:lol 4score....do you post that in every post?
LMFAO!!!! :lol: :lol:
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