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e.cartman · 07-26-2008, 03:45 PM

Interesting!! IMO,
CAT advantages
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1. Big plus is essay typing - typically typing speed > writing speed and no problem with poor legibility, much easier to edit.
2. Get out sooner with just 1 quant and 1 verbal sections unless you are unlucky enough to get another unidentified sectoin. But with pbt you will always see 2v, 2Q sections.
3. Fewer questions that is supposed to compensate for CAT difficulty, but I doubt that it compensates very well.
4. If you CAT likes your style, you can get away with high scores even getting several questions wrong. One time, I made 6 deliberate mistakes in PP and got a score of 780. (keep some catnip in your pocket maybe?)
Paper based test
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1. Assured of decent quant scores since you can mark tough questions and move on without pressure of getting beginning questions right, go back and attempt unanswered questions later, correct answers if you realize soon enough, cross-off choices during using POE, no need to rewrite figures on scratch paper, just annotate stuff in question paper (but is that permitted?)
2. In verbal, answer all the other question types before going to RCs, again assured of a certain high score.
3. I think I perform much better looking at questions on paper than staring at the monitor.

Overall I think I would need to put in more hours during the exam but the pay off will be better score. May be I should do the same. Thanks!

07-26-2008, 03:45 PM	#9 (permalink)
e.cartman Sweeeeeeet! Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 924	Interesting!! IMO, CAT advantages ---------------- 1. Big plus is essay typing - typically typing speed > writing speed and no problem with poor legibility, much easier to edit. 2. Get out sooner with just 1 quant and 1 verbal sections unless you are unlucky enough to get another unidentified sectoin. But with pbt you will always see 2v, 2Q sections. 3. Fewer questions that is supposed to compensate for CAT difficulty, but I doubt that it compensates very well. 4. If you CAT likes your style, you can get away with high scores even getting several questions wrong. One time, I made 6 deliberate mistakes in PP and got a score of 780. (keep some catnip in your pocket maybe?) Paper based test ----------------- 1. Assured of decent quant scores since you can mark tough questions and move on without pressure of getting beginning questions right, go back and attempt unanswered questions later, correct answers if you realize soon enough, cross-off choices during using POE, no need to rewrite figures on scratch paper, just annotate stuff in question paper (but is that permitted?) 2. In verbal, answer all the other question types before going to RCs, again assured of a certain high score. 3. I think I perform much better looking at questions on paper than staring at the monitor. Overall I think I would need to put in more hours during the exam but the pay off will be better score. May be I should do the same. Thanks! Last edited by e.cartman : 07-26-2008 at 04:30 PM.