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Question Bank of MGMAT CAT

by meryan_dark Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:49 pm

I have question on question bank of MGMAT CATs.I have read lot of people saying that the MGMAT CAT throws a lot of 700-800 questions in the first few tests compared to adaptive GPrep software.But I saw that if I am not doing that good in my early exams,the difficulty of questions is mixed.
Just incase if I am not able to do well on all 6 CATs will I never see the all the 700-800 questions?

Long story short-Will I be able to see all the questions from the MGMAT CAT Bank during 6 CATs irrespective of my performance?
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Re: Question Bank of MGMAT CAT

by StaceyKoprince Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:19 pm

No - you will not see all of the questions in the CAT database during the 6 tests. There are more questions than could fill only 6 tests. You will see the questions that you "earn" through your performance on the tests.

Don't take a bunch of tests in a row just to see a lot of questions - that's not worth your time and it's not how you improve. 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.

(Oh - and, no, we don't put extra-hard or extra-easy or extra-anything questions in on the first few CATs. All of the CATs are run off of the exact same software algorithm pulling from the exact same database. The sole exception is the Free CAT, which still runs off of the exact same software algorithm, but pulls only from a subset of the same database.)
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Re: Question Bank of MGMAT CAT

by meryan_dark Fri Dec 24, 2010 7:39 pm

Gotcha..thanks Stacy.
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Re: Question Bank of MGMAT CAT

by StaceyKoprince Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:13 pm

you're welcome!
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