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MBA.com Paper Tests good indicator?

by eddyh » Thu May 14, 2009 11:45 am
Have people found the paper tests (official ones only, not kaplan, PR etc) to be good indicators of actual GMAT scores? I know the format/scoring is totally different from the CAT, but think that the resulting score may still often be close.

Please post any relevant scores if you have them, in particular if you've taken the GMATPrep and actual test as well.
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by Stacey Koprince » Thu May 28, 2009 11:43 am
From a theoretical standpoint, paper test scores should be a good indicator of CAT scores, but there's a big caveat here. The way in which we take a paper test in order to maximize a score is, in some ways, significantly different than the way in which we take a CAT to maximize a score. So - if you use all of the paper-test strategies to take a CAT, then you likely are NOT going to maximize your CAT score. In a practical sense, the paper tests may not be such a great indicator of your expected CAT score.

As such, I recommend to my students that they use the paper tests only as additional practice for individual problems (or small sets of problems), but not as full-length tests, because the actual process of taking a CAT is very different than the process of taking a paper test.
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