I just completely wasted 3 hours of my life, doing Kaplan's CAT2 from the CD that came with the Kaplan 2008 book. Kaplan CATs are known to be harder than the real GMAT and to cut your score by 100 points so you would go and join one of their expensive classes. But even though I knew it would be hard, nothing prepared me to this shit... this test was RIDICULOUSLY hard, with every reading comprehension paragraph lasting at least 60 lines, and extremely difficult and long critical reasoning paragraphes.
I managed to get a mindblowing 540 with 34Q 25V split.... I won't even put it in my scores list, unless I get more than 700 in the real GMAT and then I'll put it just to show how stupid Kaplan CATs are.
update: I scored 760 in the real GMAT. Conclusion: don't trust Kaplan CAT scores.
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Hey :)
So when's your GMAT scheduled for?
Good luck with your application process :) You can reach me if you wanna discuss.
Abdul
abdulbijur-at-gmail-dot-com
Hey Abdul,
Thanks :) my GMAT is next week...
Good luck man :)
Make sure you dont over work yourself over the last week. Try to avoid tensions :)
I hear you about the difficulty of Kaplan, though I scored the opposite of what you scored, 26 or 27 on quant and 36 on verbal - though I would probably score higher on math now because I have gone through some intensive quant prep using the MGMAT guides.
I only have one critique about what you are doing. I think that it is better to take the crap tests, i.e., PR, Kaplan, MGMAT, earlier in your studies, and take the real tests - PowerPrep and GMATPrep - as you get closer to the exam date. Sooo, I say don't even pay attention to the Kaplan score. I scored a 480 and a 490 on the two PR CATs, and just took the first PowerPrep yesterday and scored a 600. So, just stick to the real thing.
Hey Alex,
Thanks for your reply. You are right about the fact that I should have taken the shitty exams earlier, the problem is that right now I wrote all the official exams at least once each exam, and I don't have any more CATs to practice with except Kaplan's.
I guess I'll use my week+ of prep to reviewe OG11's hardest questions.
If you want, you can take another CAT using Kaplan, but only to keep your conditioning up to standard; do not pay attention to your score - and if you begin to, just look back at what you scored on the real practice tests.
As for the OG11, I don't know how good you are at number properties, but the GMAC LOOOOVEES number properties, as you probably already know. So I would suggest going back over ALL of the number properties in OG. I plan to do the same once I am done with that text. In addition to that, yes, certainly go over the most difficult problems.
Cheers,
Alex.
Hi...
Best wishes for your GMAT...I am also in the same boat..of preparing for GMAT...I started in March 19th 2008..
But it is not happening as I expected..Can only give GMAt in June end ...I guesss.....
Aryan's Mom
Hey Aryan's mom,
I hope everything will be OK and wish you luck with your GMAT prep!
I am so so so glade that I read your post, I am in the same boat as yours. ten days to go, did KAP CAT II today and my score was exactly like yours, I lost full ten minutes from V as i went for a break after Q but time was actually running in V, nevertheless, I found the RC texts ridiculously difficult and guessed all of the the last two RC questions to gain some time for CR and SC, felt I did fairly well in Q but scored 35 only :S
I feel down after doing it, especially that I spent three days doing intense preparations on SC and PS/DS, i was hoping to break a 600 on Kaplan, but now decided that I won't touch their CATs anymore, I have a couple of MGs, and PRs and will stick to those, I will do one tomorrow to boost my confidence again, I defiantly need this after doing this CAT, offfff. KAPLAN owes the two of us 6 hours now !!!!
Good Luck with your preps.
Hey congrats for your 760 score...very very very good..
Aryan's Mom
Thanks Aryan's mom, I think my score shows clearly that anyone can get a good score on the GMAT :)
Good luck to you!
congrats dude!! :) 760 is uber!! :)
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