Your first prep test score

Wondering how you improved from your first prep test to the real thing.

Would really appreciate if you guys can share what score you got for the first prep test you took (please state whether you did any studying before and which publisher's test did you take) and then, if you took the real GMAT, what score did you get for that one?

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Go to www.beatthegmat.com and read the success stories forums. Lots of EXTREMELY detailed posts about how people took a low or moderate prep score and turned it into a 700+ score.

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also though, keep in mind that most (all?) of the unofficial practice tests have inaccurate questions, and even less accurate scores. i took an unofficial test a week before my real one and got something between 650 and 680 (don't remember exactly). took the two official practice tests and got a 760 and 780. then took the real one and got a 770. my friend had a similarly huge disconnect between unofficial and official.

i think it's pretty safe to say that the official practice tests are the best indicator of what you'll actually get.

 

I would not recommend doing anything but the official gmatprep practice tests, or practice problems for that matter. All of the prep test companies' practice problems are so bad and inaccurate compared to the real ones they are useless to study, in my opinion.

That said, the MGMAT books are really good, you should buy those are reread/redo the problems in there over and over again.

To answer your question I went from a 640 --> 690, I was scoring higher but I tend to choke under the pressure of standardized tests.

 

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