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BlasP747
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CAT & Navigator + Problem banks

by BlasP747 Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:31 am

Hi there everyone,

Couple of questions:

1. Is Navigator absorbing the questions from the CATs we do trough the online platform? I believe it to be very important as Navigator's performance study seems to be very useful, but seems incomplete if it only takes into accounts questions from OG (which normally are little in number and spread out, therefore not "in situation")

2. I was wondering if there exist in the web app a similar section to the one of the mobile app in which we can solve questions from different parts (SC, FDP, FoM...)? If not, what is the best way to practice test-like questions of specific themes on the computer?

3. Is Navigator connected with the mobile app? Idem to Q1.

Thank you very much for your time

:)
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Re: CAT & Navigator + Problem banks

by StaceyKoprince Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:25 pm

Hello! I'm not quite sure what you mean by the "online platform" so I'm going to answer based on a couple of different interpretations. If I still don't get what you mean, let me know.

The OG online access (the platform that you can use to do OG problems online) is owned and operated by GMAC, the organization that makes the real exam. I'd love it if that data flowed into our company's Navigator program, but as you can imagine, they don't share their data with outside companies. :)

GMATPrep, the free software that you can download, is also owned and operated by GMAC. Ditto we can't access their data in that software.

If you are asking whether we could have entries for GMATPrep problems in our Navigator program so that you could enter the data yourself, we would like to—but GMATPrep test questions do not have easily-used unique numbering, the way the OG does. Everyone sees whatever questions they happen to earn while taking the exam. So we haven't come up with a good way for people to be able to then find those questions in a different program (such as Navigator) in order to enter the data. (Some problems, such as verbal, would be easy to find via a search function. But "pure" math problems would be impossible to search for, since search engines don't support complex math symbols / formatting—you'd have to scroll through a huge list of problems to try to find a match.)

If we can someday come up with a way to make this work that wouldn't be extremely cumbersome, we will certainly make that happen!

All of the problems in the mobile app come from our resources somewhere—and some of them are organized by question type or content area, yes. For example, some of the questions are from the end-of-chaper problem sets in our strategy guides (books). Some come from online problem sets associated with each strategy guide—if you have bought / have access to a particular strategy guide, then you also have access to the online problem set(s) associated with it. And so on. For each of these resources, you would have had to buy the resource in order to have access to the accompanying online problem sets. (Note: If you are in one of our classes, you already have access to all of these things.) If you think you do / should have access to some of these online resources but don't know where to find them in your MPrep student center, talk to our student services team (800.576.GMAT or gmat@manhattanprep.com) and they will help you to find what you have and see how to use it.

Navigator is exclusively for official problems—we don't have plans to change that. We actually wouldn't want to mix data from official problems with data from our own. While we do our best to mimic the real questions as closely as possible, there's no doubt that the real questions are...well, just better than everything that test prep companies produce, since they are literally the real thing. :)
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