Scored 770 on GMAT

[Gandalf_the_wizard]

Hello folks,
Gave GMAT recently and got 770 (49Q, 49V). I must say that the MGMAT SC book single handedly helped me gain 3-4 points on verbal by improving my SC accuracy.
I also gave 4 MGMAT online exams and I am listing them to give an idea how they correlate to the real exam;

MGMAT CAT 1 690 Q 45 (tough!) V 39 (ok)

MGMAT CAT 2 720 Q 49 (ok) V 39 (ok)

MGMAT CAT 3 730 Q 49 (timing issue) V 40 (ok)

MGMAT CAT 4 750 Q 48 (timing issue) V 45 (good)

I feel like the MGMAT scoring algortihm is very good. I almost feel like CAT 4 is closest to what your score would be in the real exam.

My advice to MGMAT folks would be to make the verbal a little simpler and more representative in the CAT's. As you can see, I never scored great on MGMAT verbal, but always scored in the 99% in GMAT prep and scored a 49 (way above 99% threshold) in the real exam.

[Helios]

Great!! Congratulation for your score.

[StaceyKoprince]

Great job - congrats!

I'm chuckling a little bit right now because I literally JUST answered another post from someone who suggested that we change our verbal scoring a bit b/c s/he always scores LOWER on GMATPrep and the real thing than s/he does on our tests. That's just the standard deviation rearing it's ugly head - some people score higher, some people score lower. :)

[Gandalf_the_wizard]

True. I agree that this represents the variance which is inherent to any test. I was misled that the MGMAT verbal was always harder than the real one as was the case for me!

[StaceyKoprince]

yep, we discuss this so much, but it's worth saying again: if you listen to what a few people tell you about their experience comparing MGMAT CAT with GMATPrep with the official CAT, you're just getting a few very biased data points - which may not hold at all for you. The standard deviation on this thing is fairly wide (well, it's pretty good as far as standardized tests go - but it's still a lot wider than most people assume!).