How different is the real GMAT exam compared to the 6 practice tests / practice questions on official mba.com? I’ve heard the real exam tries to trick you a lot more and that they “experiment” on you from a Partner at my firm but not sure what that means exactly

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Expect a +/- 30 point swing. That being said, the official practice tests are the best gauge out there

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The experimental questions don’t count and aren’t supposed to be tricky. They’re just calibrating and testing new questions for future use

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They are pretty darn good measuring sticks and definitely the best thing out there. They stand by a +/- 20 point interval for them iirc. I scored 740-790 on the practices and ended up with a 740 and then 770 on the real thing.

Like Amazon 1 said, there are experimental questions on the real thing, but they don’t count toward your score. It’s pretty transparent - nobody is trying to trick you

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Official Guide and Economist (now Bloomberg)

Practice exams:

710
720
740
750 (week of)
760 (week of)

Real:
750

TTP math. I did nothing for verbal.

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