Quant Score - 60!

It's rare but possible. People do get V51 and they do get 800 too. Of course, only a minuscule percentage gets that score.

heyb karishma , ive been getting a low score of 30 in verbal , can u suggest a method to go about it and come to atleast a 40. my quant is taken care of -its sumwhere around 41-44

thankyouu

I can confirm that VeritasPrepKarishma is right on all counts. Subscores of 52-60 are reserved for the future. Thank you, Karishma!

This information is not sufficient to give any meaningful suggestions. You must provide details of what all you have done, which tests you have taken, how you have performed in them, what is your accuracy in CR, SC and RC etc.

The discussion suggests that scaled scores from 52-60 are "reserved for future use". That's the opposite of how I'd put it. Those scores are a legacy of historical use. The predecessor of the GMAT (going back about six decades) used scoring scales from 0-60, where 30 was average, and where 10 points was one standard deviation. On the first version of the GMAT, scores of 2 or 59 were possible.

I'm not sure when scaled scores were capped at 51 (it was more than fifteen years ago for sure), but I'd bet they put a ceiling on scores because the test just doesn't contain enough questions to reliably differentiate among test takers outside the 6-51 range. The GMAT is a short test, and it contains just enough questions to produce a margin of error the test designers find acceptable. If the test wanted to extend the scoring range to something like 0-60, it would need to contain more questions, and they've been trying to make the GMAT shorter, not longer, in recent years. When you also consider the logistical problems with changing the score range (making new test scores comparable with old ones, designing enough questions in the Q51-Q60 difficulty range to differentiate among test takers in that range), and the dubious value in doing so (when every MBA program accepts people with Q48 scores, how much do they care about the difference between a Q53 and a Q57?), I'd be surprised if the current 6-51 score range was changed in the future. But I have no concrete information about GMAC's plans one way or the other, so I suppose anything's possible.

Some of the ESRs that get posted may interest you regarding the question difficulty and order etc.

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you meant Q60 or 60! ( 60 factorial) .. LOL.. Just kidding.

Two person, I know, who have scored 800 in GMAT. Ron Purewall RonPurewal and GMATNinja have scored 800 in GMAT. As far as I remember, Ron scored 800 twice, and GMAC banned him for 5 years to take another GMAT test ..LOL