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eskay05, a side note - are you sure about your score?

I got 680 with same breakup (Q49, V32). I know percentiles may change over time but how come your cumulative score is 660?

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What the #$%&* :shock: , how can it be? eskay, I think you should ask VUE!
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Agree with vivek. yes, your percentile is SAME as mine(Q 90, V 67). But my cumulative %le was: 90.

Well, I am gearing up for fall 2007 so the gruelling app process still to kick start :)
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Not sure if it helps, I read somwhere here of some problem remotely similar to this one.

https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... vue+vs+ets

I hope this link works. Also Curious if anyone got a Total score of more that 650 for a q43 and v36?

I remember seeing some post where someone posted the various combinations of q score, v score and its related total score, wish I can find it to compare mine with it.

Also sperumba, thanks dude/dudette(is that how you say for ladies? ) anyway, I will give it a shot with HAAS, your friend's case is encouraging me a bit, but I read of late that GMAT is just a small part of the selecting process and the essays and recommendations count a lot too. I shouldnt have a problem with recommendations (Hopefully!....ohh just in case some GMAT employees are reading it..."Its is hoped that!") My major problem is the essay. I am usually very crude, cut and right to the point. Thats one of my reason to take up MBA, I will try to polish myself up and see if it helps to get into HAAS.
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Found the post. There is a spread sheet in there that gives various break downs, compare it if you want.

https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=21507
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eskay05, a side note - are you sure about your score?

I got 680 with same breakup (Q49, V32). I know percentiles may change over time but how come your cumulative score is 660?

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What the #$%&* :shock: , how can it be? eskay, I think you should ask VUE!

Agree with vivek. yes, your percentile is SAME as mine(Q 90, V 67). But my cumulative %le was: 90.

Well, I am gearing up for fall 2007 so the gruelling app process still to kick start :)
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duttsit,
I envy you dude, it must be so relaxing after GMAT :)
BTW are you considering INSEAD Jan 2007 cycle too?

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I envy you dude, it must be so relaxing after GMAT :)
BTW are you considering INSEAD Jan 2007 cycle too?

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Guess not. I will try my shot on a few US colleges preferably west/midwest region.

Relaxing..well lets just say silence before the storm :?
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Hey guys,

Just called VUE .. they cant explain the difference in scores and think that cumulative scores can be different even though the Q/V breakup is the same. I spoke to one of the managers there. He reckons that the difference in scores is because of factors such as difference in number of questions answered correctly and difference in the difficuty level of questions answered correctly.

But I thought all this was taken care of in the scaling from raw score of 0-37/41 to scaled score of 0-60! And that the further scaling to a score between 200-800 was the same for everyone regardless of these other criteria. Isn't it so?

Anyway, they've asked me to call up GMAC regarding the scoring mechanism. I haven't managed to get through to them as yet. Will let you know about the details after I talk to them!

Hey Duttsit, they also asked me for your details (to check why our cumulative scores are different)! Could you pls email me if you don't mind?

My email is: [email protected]

Thanks a lot!
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Hi guys

Just in case anyone's interested:

I've finally got an answer from GMAC about the difference in scores even through the quan/verbal breakup is the same. This is what they have to say and it makes perfect sense:

The GMAT® Total score is not the sum of the GMAT® Quantitative and Verbal Scores. Rather, the GMAT® Total is a rounded scale score derived from the sum of intermediate Quantitative and Verbal scores. Similarly, the reported Quantitative and Verbal scores are rounded scale scores derived from intermediate scores. Scale scores have the same meaning over time and permit schools to compute averages and other statistics. Because the scale scores are rounded to the nearest whole number, each scale score corresponds to a range of intermediate scores. If one person has intermediate scores at the low end of the intervals and another has intermediate scores at the high end, then both would receive the same rounded Quantitative and Verbal scale scores but different Total scores.


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well i got a Q48 and V34 and got a 660. wht is it like they have more points for quants ?? nevertheless .....
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Thanks everyone for the encouraging and helpful comments!

old-user - good luck for your test. I'm sure you'll be alright .. your test center is active because it had that note on it. Mine had no sign of activity. And it had black tinted doors and windows .. so I had no clue as to whether the place was in use or not! You'll be fine don't panic!

Have a few questions guys ...

About error log:
I've been using a very simple one so far. Just noted the questions I got wrong and tried to write a comment suggesting why I got it wrong. Is there a better way of doing this? .. because I found it quite hard to find a trend in my mistakes .. everytime I got something wrong .. it seemed like a new mistake!

Does anyone know of study material which provides questions grouped by type i.e a set of strengthen/weaken questions for CR or a set of assumptions questions etc.? I really need to identify which question type I'm struggling with .. all the material I've looked at so far gives a set of questions with everything mixed up and so its quite hard to analyse my mistakes.

Are questions in OG11 different from OG10 because I have looked at OG10 in detail and have also attempted GMATPrep. So doing the same questions wont really help as I know the answers now!

Duttsit, I did read your post about your gmat experience. I was quite surprised to see that your cumulative score was 680 although you had the same Quant/Verbal breakup as me! I am sure my score is 660. I got a print out at the end of my test and the piece of paper sure says 660!! I soooo wish the score is wrong!!

Can someone pls explain this difference in scores? I thought I understood the gmat scoring mechanism. Looks like I've understood NOTHING about gmat so far!

Forgot to mention this earlier, my practice test scores were as follows:

Before any preparation:
Kaplan diagnostic - 630
Kaplan CAT 1 - 550
Kaplan CAT 2 - 570

After going through OG, Kaplan and some miscallaneous books:
Kaplan diagnostic - 710
Kaplan CAT 1 - 630
Kaplan CAT 2 - 650
Kaplan CAT 3 - 700
Kaplan CAT 4 - 640

GMATPrep 1 - 720
GMATPrep 2 - 700

Peterson CAT 1 - 640
Peterson CAT 2 - 680
Peterson CAT 3 - 670

But honestly, these scores dont mean anything to me anymore
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Thanks again for all your input guys!

Cheers

Interesting !! If they keep on devaluing "total" score by 20 pts every other months, whats point of "standardized" test... Also schools should then look at for raw indivisual scores only. By the way, what was your percentiles?

Duttsit,

My percentiles:
Quantitative - 90th percentile
Verbal - 67th percentile
Total - 86th percentile

Btw .. how are your apps coming along?
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