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Book Access Codes

by jasonmaehara Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:45 pm

I purchased the full set of 8 Manhattan books. When I enter one code do I get access to all 6 CATs, or am I required to enter the code from each individual book?

Going to start running through CATs now and wanted to know what to expect.

Thanks!
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Re: Book Access Codes

by greystealth Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:09 pm

I believe one code gives you all 6 CATs(one at a time). I could be wrong though.
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Re: Book Access Codes

by StaceyKoprince Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:53 am

One code gives access to the entire testing bank.

Quick comment. I may be reading into this based upon the wording of your statement "Going to start running through CATs" - I want to make sure you know something.

CAT exams are really good for (a) figuring out where you're scoring right now, (b) practicing stamina, and (c) analyzing your strengths and weaknesses. The actual act of just taking the exam is NOT so useful for improving. It's what you do with the test results / between tests that helps you to improve.

It is absolutely not worth it to take another exam before you've had time to thoroughly analyze the previous one and do significant work to improve your position before you take another. Otherwise, you won't see huge movement in your score (or you'll see a lot of ups and downs, seemingly randomly - that often indicates timing problems).

Please do NOT just start taking a bunch of CATs in a row, thinking that you're going to improve a ton that way - you'll have some limited improvement, but probably not as much as you want, and then you'll be out of CATs!
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Re: Book Access Codes

by jasonmaehara Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:23 pm

Of course, my intention is not to do CATs to improve, just to benchmark my progress.

Thanks for the clarification however!
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Re: Book Access Codes

by StaceyKoprince Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:10 pm

good. :)

happy studying!
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