How good is Princeton review Sample test score?

[hprashi]

Hi,

How good is princeton review gmat score?

I made 5 mistakes in quant and 13 in verbal, with not more than 2 subsequent incorrect answers and ended up with a score of Q45, V30!!! total score of 610!!!

Has anyone given princeton review sample gmat test? How good are the scores?

I have been preparing for gmat for quite some time and have been scoring in 700-730 range in gmatprep and manhatten gmat. getting 610 is a shocker!!

I was planning to take gmat this month end, guess will have to postpone..

[papgust]

Scoring will be a bit off in Princeton Review. Only GMATPrep is the accurate indicator. Don't take PR scores too seriously. Just review your practice test and learn from your mistakes.

[vinamra07]

Same here! Gave PR GMAT-4 and scored a 610 with Q 44 and V 31.
I made 5 mistakes (2- probability, 1 combination and 2 others) with only 1 instance where I had 2 subsequent incorrect answers! 13 on Verbal (most of them coming at the end because of time constraint)

I will be starting MGMAT from coming Monday!

[Laura GMAT Tutor]

The GMAT Prep test is the best indicator. I took the GMAT 4 times this year and I've studied all the available tests and this is my opinion. Each company's tests is a bit off.

Kaplan's is old fashioned. Too much emphasis on rates and speed. They also have a tendency to put too many of the same kind of question in a test, but the real GMAT does that too. Also, people who do well in Kaplan verbal don't always succeed on the real test's verbal, and I'm not sure why.

Princeton Review's material is too easy. Their questions don't have enough steps and don't have enough advanced content. They'll probably give a false sense of security.

Manhattan GMAT's stuff is too hard, in a punishing way. The questions nearly always need to be solved through brute force. Hardly ever is there an elegant solution, while on the real GMAT there is at least half the time a beautiful elegant way to solve. Someone who prepares only with M-GMAT will probably miss all the subtleties of the real GMAT.

From what I've seen of Knewton, it's actually pretty good. I haven't seen enough of their stuff to give a really informed opinion. I don't know anything about Grockit.

But -- and this is the most important thing -- practice tests should be just the smallest part of your test prep. You don't lose weight by weighing yourself, right? You don't get better at the GMAT by taking full length practice tests. In the end, the only real score indicator that'll be 100% accurate will be the real GMAT. So focus on your process, and don't think about these scores as much as you think about what YOU can do better next time. Spend more time in your practice work, not your practice tests.