Practice Tests vs. Real GMAT

[silvergator]

If I take a paper test, how do I convert that into a score on the 800 scale?

[raven18]

Kaplan diagnostic - 580
Kaplan - 520, 540, 540
Powerprep - 540

Actual GMAT - 600 (44q, 28v)

[Petran911]

Princeton: 620, 640, 600, 660
Kaplan¨540, 560, 550, 600
Gmat Prep: 710, 680
PP 1: 710, PP2 680
Crack GMAT: 505 Wow!
Real GMAT: 720!

[vgayathri83]

i m getting only 420- 430 in my tests excluding essays its a bad score na por favor, El Señor help

Originally Posted by Erin

Many people ask this, so I've started a thread for it.

Please reply to this topic with your practice test scores. For example :

Real GMAT: 710 (Q48, V40)

PowerPrep: 590 (Q49, V23), 750 (Q50, V40)

GMAT Paper Tests: 730

Kaplan: 690

Princeton Review: 700

-other-

Thanks! I hope we get a lot of responses!

Please post ONLY your scores here. If you have other questions, please post them in the right place.


We will have to delete all off-topic posts. Thanks for helping!

[WAG]

Kaplan: 560, 580
GMAT PREP: 740, 710
POWER PREP: 750, 740
Paper Tests: 680,710,730
Actual: 710

[ppgmat]

actual - 460

arco paper tests-7460/740/780/790
kaplan dt-750
kaplan cd - 660/640/560/650
did og10th edition
kaplan verbal

[MBAorBUST]

KAP1 -- 590
KAP2 -- 640
PPrep1- 740, before the OG.
KAP3 -- 640
PPrep2- 710, before the OG.
GPrep1- 700, GMATPrep repeats a few Official Guide questions.
Gprep2- 750

REAL GMAT : 740 -- 98%

[psychodementia]

Hi Friends,

Looking for some help in knowing what is going on wrong with my scores.

Some background about me. I took GMAT in a half-baked attempt some 3years go and ended up with a 640 (Q47 V31). I rate my verbal skills far better than what my scores might reflect. I came back from a self-imposed sabbatical to take GMAT again this year (November 22nd) to apply for ISB - 2006.

This is the scores so far from the 5 tests that I have taken so far (my prep started sometime 3-4weeks ago):

PR1 : 650
Kaplan 1: 710
PR2 : 640
PP1: 730
Kaplan 2: 700

As my friend remarked on hearing my Kaplan scores - "Either you are going to crack GMAT big time or the software is screwed up"

I have a couple of questions to ask:

(a)
I have the tests from PR 2005 edition which are really screwy because they show an id number on top. The higher it is, the harder the questions get, which is actually quite unnerving when you are taking the test. But more than that, the scoring pattern is buggy. I ended up getting 8 wrongs in one of the tests and it gave me a 40 raw score in quant Is this the same Princeton Review most people say is a cake walk ?

(b)
Is Kaplan the same tests that I have ? The "Higher Score" CD which has the swanky car dashboard showing the roadmap. I have this CD from around 2002 (really old). If yes, then how come I am able to achieve a 700+ with such consumate ease ? (Infact in the last test I took a 10min break in Quant only to appallingly click away on the last few questions and worse still - commit the cardinal sin in GMAT by leaving a couple of questions UNANSWERED)

(c)
This is an age old question, but I still am looking out for the answer. Though the initial questions might have more weight attached, still, what is the penalty for loosing out on say 8 out of the last 10 questions ? Considering you have very few mistakes in the first 20 or so question (This is what has happened to me in each of the tests I got a 700+ in)

(d)
Is there a greater penalty in getting a string of wrong answers ? (as opposed to getting every alternate question wrong). I mean a string of say 5 mistakes instead of 5 wrongs out of 10 questions.

Thanks for the patience in reading through this post. Hope to get some helpful advice.

Arun

[lawrencl]

I am new to this board but I'm finding it to be the most helpful. Hopefully I can do well on GMAT, I've already taken it 2x. My goal is to get 700+ but right now I can't even break 600 on the actual exams when I'm doing it on practice ones so not sure what is going on there. No clue why my math went down but now I'm determined to get 99%, I just feel like that is my best chance. Verbal probably won't be much better than 32 (69%) but on PR I managed to get 41 (93%) so I have no clue what I did right on that vs other tests. And I cracked a 51 (99%) on PR math so I have to say PR is much easier than the rest of the tests.

GMAT Scores
Kaplan 33M (39%) 33V (69%) 540 (50%) 1/23/2005
Kaplan 33M (39%) 28V (51%) 540 (57%) 3/15/2005

PowerPrep 46M (84%) 32V (64%) 640 (81%) 9/19/2005
PowerPrep 41M (68%) 32V (64%) 610 (81%) 9/24/2005

Princeton Review 51M (99%) 27V (46%) 640 (80%) 4/3/2005
Princeton Review 44M (73%) 28V (51%) 590 (67%) 4/24/2005
Princeton Review 44M (73%) 41V (93%) 690 (91%) 10/1/2005

ETS 46M (79%) 21V (25%) 560 (57%) 4/5/2005
ETS 44M (73%) 27V (46%) 590 (67%) 10/14/2005

[Crack_GMAT]

Kaplan
Test 1:560
Test 2:560
Test 3:580
GMATprep 1:710
GMATprep2:640(yes that is what is said)
GMATprep2 again:680
GMAT prep1:710
Powerprep1:730
Powerprep 2:730

Real GMat:680 V35,Q48