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Hitting the GMAT score you need to get into your first-choice business school doesn’t happen overnight—it takes practice. And you actually want to start your studies with a practice test, even before you’ve done much studying. Lucky for you, we have exactly the tools you need to set yourself up for success. 

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Why Should You Take a Free GMAT Practice Test Early In Your Studies?

1. You’ll get to see your score. Only by knowing your baseline GMAT score can you design and implement a study schedule that will help ensure you stay on track to reach your goal score before Test Day.
2. You’ll see how you perform under real-time constraints. Most test takers see a difference in their performance compared to when they practice untimed. You’ll also be able to see how much time you spent on each question, helping to diagnose issues with your time management and decision-making.
3. You’ll test yourself using real GMAT problems that appeared on the official test in the past. There’s nothing better than the real thing to gauge your strengths and weaknesses.
4. Manhattan Prep’s Test Analysis tool will guide you through how to deeply analyze your test results. When your analysis is complete, you’ll have a thorough understanding of your strengths and weaknesses and know what next steps to take to improve your score.

Taking an official practice test and analyzing your data using Manhattan Prep’s free tools is crucial to kick-start your studies. Once you know your strengths and weaknesses, you’ll be in a great position to figure out your study plan—whether you want to study on your own, take a course, or work 1:1 with a tutor. 

You’ll also have a better idea of a reasonable study timeframe, which depends on both how much time you plan to study each week and how big of a gap there is between your starting score and the average scores at your target schools.

The GMAT is an adaptive test. In all three sections (Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights), the difficulty level of each question adapts based on whether you answered the previous questions correctly. 

As you do better on the test, you earn harder questions; as you make mistakes, the questions become easier. Each section on the practice test is timed the same as the actual GMAT, and you get the same breaks as you will in the testing center. And, just like on test day, you will receive your score as soon as you complete the test.

Differences Between a GMAT Practice Test and the GMAT Exam

There are two big differences between a practice CAT and an official GMAT exam:

• The first is that you can take an official practice test for free.
• The second is that your practice test score won’t actually go on your record. There’s no risk to taking a mock test right now, even if you’re nervous (most people are). Get the data on your strengths and weaknesses to help you establish a strong launching pad for your studies.

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Analyzing Your In-Depth GMAT Score Report From Your Practice Test

Our Free GMAT Starter Kit contains all the tools you need for an in-depth analysis of your practice test data.

For example, in the Data Insights (DI) section, you have 45 minutes to answer 20 questions, or a little over two minutes per question. When you review your score report, keep that in mind: You want to spend, on average, about 2 minutes 15 seconds per question on the Data Insights section.

The DI section has 5 different problem types and can test math, logic, and verbal skills. When you dive into your in-depth review of the DI section, you’ll analyze your performance on each question type, as well as whether you spent excessive time on a particular type of question (e.g., Data Sufficiency) and/or a particular type of content (e.g., math-based vs. non-math-based). Our tool will tell you exactly what you need to analyze and help you keep track of all that data.

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Your in-depth analysis tool in our Starter Kit will also enable you to identify problems that were careless mistakes or lucky guesses. You’ll catalogue problems you legitimately missed but now understand vs. those you missed and still don’t understand, even after review. 

This level of analysis will enable you to deeply articulate your strengths and weaknesses—so that you know precisely what you need to practice to get better. (Note: The Starter Kit gives you both a “Lite” version of the CAT analysis tool and a Full version. The full version will take longer. We highly recommend investing that time.) 

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