Cannot access the sixth CAT exam

[TimS914]

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[StaceyKoprince]

Hi, Tim, thanks for checking in. I have some annoying news: Your 6 months of access to the exams have expired.

We do actually already build in several extra days of buffer time for the product: You purchased on 9 June and your access expired on 13 December. There unfortunately isn't a way for me to add extra days or extend your access to the product in the system. You would have to purchase access to the product again (for another 6 months) in order to do that 6th test.

If you don't want to do that, you could use a different email address to sign up for another free account so that you have access to the one exam that comes free with each account. The drawback to this approach: The test will then choose from the entire problem database, so you may be given problems that you've seen before. (When you are taking multiple exams within one account, the system remembers what you've seen before and doesn't give you repeated questions within the first 6 exams.)

Alternatively, the official exam makers offer two free practice exams, if you haven't done those yet. (They also offer 4 paid exams.)

Or, if you want to purchase another 6 months of our tests, you can do exam #6 and continue to take more exams beyond #6. Just note that it's possible after exam #6 to see repeated questions. In your "second set of 6" (exams 7 through 12), there will be no repeats (eg, on exam 8, you will not be given any questions that appeared on exam 7), but you could see repeats from the first set of 6 exams.

We do have more than 1,500 questions in the database, so the likelihood of repeated questions depends primarily on how much your score has changed as you've progressed through the exams. If you've mostly stayed in the same scoring range, then it's more likely that you'll see repeated questions on exams 7 and later. If your score has changed a decent amount, though, then you will have been moving yourself into a different difficulty range, and so you'll tend not to see as many repeats for at least the first couple of tests after #6.

Finally, if you do choose to get another 6 months of our tests, I would recommend not going back to review the first 3 to 4 tests you did in our system. Chances are that you've forgotten a lot of those problems (especially if it has been several months or longer since you took those tests)—so leave those problems forgotten. Then, even if some of them are repeated on test #7 or later, they'll feel new to you.

Good luck on your real test!