GMAT full length practise test

[tanaychowdhury]

Hi,I am thinking about retaking the gmat within next 3 months.Earlier I took MGMAT cat tests and already have taken the each of the 6 tests twice.Can you suggest me any possible good source of full length cat gmat tests.Since I don't want to retake MGMAT cat
to avoid doing repeated questions.For your information I did 660(q 49,v 31) and will prefer taking tests which will be good in verbal section.

[StaceyKoprince]

How frequently are you taking practice tests?

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.

I really can't think of a circumstance in which it would be useful to take a test more than once a week, and even then, I'd only recommend taking the test that frequently in the last several weeks before the real test. 2 or 3 months before the test, it's really not useful to take a test more than once every 2-3 weeks. If you aren't doing significant work / study between tests, then there's no reason to expect much of an improvement on the next test.

So, either you're taking tests too frequently - in which case, slow down! - or you've taken these tests over a long period of time, in which case you probably can take them again, because you won't remember a lot of the questions.

GMATPrep is probably the best practice test in terms of mimicking the real exam. (The one major drawback is that it does not provide explanations or statistics about your performance.) You can find explanations for many / most of the questions online, and you should also time yourself for every question so that you have that data, at least, when you go to review your test.

I haven't taken other practice tests besides GMATPrep and MGMAT, so I can't recommend other tests firsthand. Fellow students, can you help tanay out?

You can still take both GMATPrep and MGMAT CATs with repeats as long as you follow a few guidelines to minimize the chance of artificially inflating your score via question repeats. (This assumes, though, that you aren't so familiar with the questions that you would recognize half of them!) First, anytime you see a problem that you remember (and this means: I know the answer or I'm pretty sure I remember the answer, not just "hmm, this looks vaguely familiar..."), immediately look at the timer and make yourself sit there for the full length of time for that question type. This way, you don't artificially give yourself more time than you should have. Second, think about whether you got this problem right the last time. If you did, get it right again this time. If you didn't, get it wrong again. If you *completely honestly* think that you would get it right this time around if it were a new question (even though you got it wrong last time) because you've studied that area and improved, then get it right this time.

[tnbokides]

Does anyone know how often the GMATPrep exams provided by GMAC are updated with new content?

I took them last year. If I knew the content was different I could be sure previously taking them would not artificially inflate my score.

[StaceyKoprince]

They don't update to the point that all of the questions are new - when they update, it tends to be on the order of a few dozen questions.

How long ago was "last year"? A month? 6 months? Perhaps it's been long enough that you won't reasonably remember any of the questions anyway? (A vaguely familiar feeling won't artificially inflate your score. Remembering the whole thing to the point that you can do it in half the time it first took you, or simply remembering the answer, will inflate your score - unless you handle it the way that I described above.)