As I have thoroughly practiced OG 12 and GMAT verbal review, It is time to dig into some actual tests. After MGMAT 1, this Knewton CAT was my second test. Although the score is way below my target score, I still managed to take some positives out of the exam. First, I was finally able to attempt all questions in VA and QA. Infact I managed to finish the two sections before time. Second, the number of mistakes in QA decreased. Last, I came across a potential weak area, which I have to address before the big day.
Before I get into further details, I need to list the stats:
VA : 41 questions ( 30 correct, 11 wrong(6 RC, 4 SC, 1 CR)) : Score :- 33 (66 percentile)
QA: 37 questions (33 correct, 4 wrong): Score:- 47 (86 Percentile)
In VA, the biggest culprit was reading comprehension. The passages were very long and a bit abstruse. I am generally good at RCs but in the Knewton tests, the RCs had some extra bite.Nevertheless, post analysis, I realized that most of the errors were because of inadequate comprehension of the passage. One should be able to logically link all the paragraphs together. In my case, I tend to read through the para in a hurry. And if the paragraph is a bit confusing, I loose the plot. This create a 'reasoning void' which haunts me in inference based questions.
As far as the Sentence correction questions are concerned, I got 4 wrong out of 15. that is roughly 70% accuracy. I know it is not enough and anything less than 80-85% is not acceptable. But again, it is an adaptive test. You never know what kind of difficulty level will be there in the exam. Hence, the idea is to prepare myself for the the toughest questions.
CR section was below par. The questions were comparatively easy and in no way up to the 700- 800 mark. Except one silly mistake, I got them all right.
As far as the QA section is concerned, the questions were not very tough (MGMAT quant section was very tough). I finished the section with 5 minutes to spare and got 4 question wrong.
After finishing the test and detailed analysis, I came to a conclusion that Knewton test has a 'not so perfect' scoring algorithm. Afterall how can anyone get just 87% if he makes just 4 mistakes. Moreover, the explanations and data analysis of the test were nowhere close to MGMAT. Infact, If someone has less time on their hand,i would not recommend him to take the test.
Anyways, as my eyes start to close , it is time to sign off.....
Before I get into further details, I need to list the stats:
VA : 41 questions ( 30 correct, 11 wrong(6 RC, 4 SC, 1 CR)) : Score :- 33 (66 percentile)
QA: 37 questions (33 correct, 4 wrong): Score:- 47 (86 Percentile)
In VA, the biggest culprit was reading comprehension. The passages were very long and a bit abstruse. I am generally good at RCs but in the Knewton tests, the RCs had some extra bite.Nevertheless, post analysis, I realized that most of the errors were because of inadequate comprehension of the passage. One should be able to logically link all the paragraphs together. In my case, I tend to read through the para in a hurry. And if the paragraph is a bit confusing, I loose the plot. This create a 'reasoning void' which haunts me in inference based questions.
As far as the Sentence correction questions are concerned, I got 4 wrong out of 15. that is roughly 70% accuracy. I know it is not enough and anything less than 80-85% is not acceptable. But again, it is an adaptive test. You never know what kind of difficulty level will be there in the exam. Hence, the idea is to prepare myself for the the toughest questions.
CR section was below par. The questions were comparatively easy and in no way up to the 700- 800 mark. Except one silly mistake, I got them all right.
As far as the QA section is concerned, the questions were not very tough (MGMAT quant section was very tough). I finished the section with 5 minutes to spare and got 4 question wrong.
After finishing the test and detailed analysis, I came to a conclusion that Knewton test has a 'not so perfect' scoring algorithm. Afterall how can anyone get just 87% if he makes just 4 mistakes. Moreover, the explanations and data analysis of the test were nowhere close to MGMAT. Infact, If someone has less time on their hand,i would not recommend him to take the test.
Anyways, as my eyes start to close , it is time to sign off.....
