soonerliberty wrote:
I just took my GMAT in Munich, Germany. Here are my previous results on prep tests without retakes and under timed conditions.
MGMAT 6 - Q: 47, V: 42 720
GMATPREP 1 - Q: 45, V: 44 720
GMATPREP 2 - Q: 49, V: 40 730
Kaplan CAT online: Q 43, V 45 680
Real GMAT: Q: 47, V: 32 650
Is that even possible to have such a big drop? I felt like I was answering at the same error rate or lower. I thought I got all the sentence correction correct and almost all the RC and CR correct. The test got harder as I went. Is it possible there was a scoring error?
I'm an English teacher and speak 3 other languages. I find it hard to believe that my score dropped so much while my Quant stayed the same.
Thanks for any feedback
Man, I have exactly the same problem! Quantative is my strong side, so I have never been worried about it. A year ago I scored 700=(Q50,V34) on GMAT, but decided to study harder and retake it. After 6 months of tough preparation I took one more exam and scored 710=(Q51,V33) despite the fact that my Verbal skills improved substantially. So, I was a bit confused, but decided to try once more. After a month, I felt myself even more prepared. During the exam I was absolutely sure that I was doing well in Quant and quite sure in Verbal, however the results on the screen shocked me - 680=(Q50,V31). I was really upset and for a while forgot about GMAT.
In the beginning of this August I decided to retake it once more, as I felt that my comprehension had grown substantially since last try (For three months I read 2 articles from The Economist and National Geographic almost every day). The entire August I was studying hard and substantially improved my Sentence Correction (
e-GMAT) and Critical Reasoning (
Powerscore CR Bible) skills. I practiced on Official Verbal Review under timed conditions and succeeded in 88.5-95% of questions depending on section. I took official practice tests from GMAT Prep and scored 770=(Q50,V45) and 770=(Q51,V44). I was absolutely sure that I would do very well on my yesterday exam...
I was not worried even a bit and was definitely doing well at least in the beginning (I had a boldface question in CR and hard inference questions in RC). Nevertheless, the results shocked me once more - 700=(Q51,V32).
I absolutely have no thoughts how could it happen and why there were such a big difference with the results in OFFICIAL practice tests. My friend whom I had instructed scored V36 after only 2 hours sleep and, as he said, being almost unconscious in the end of exam. I would understand if I scored at least 35... I would then see an improvement in comparison to my previous scores, but this damn correlation between my knowledge and score is negative... I have an applications starting in the middle of September, so I will have no chance to retake it once more. I also wrote to GMAC, but pretty sure that the answer will be "All clear".
Feeling despair