Floyd97 wrote:
I took the gmat twice in the span of 20 days and ended up with these scores. I’m just really puzzled as to how a 2 point improvement on both quant and verbal lead to only a 10 point improvement on my overall score?
Not that I can do anything about it at this point, but it’s still pretty demotivating to see only a 10 point improvement with 3 additional weeks of prep.
Hi Floyd97,
A Q46+V40 is usually a 700 (sometimes it's a 690). If you want to know why scores can vary like this:
1. The GMAT generates a score at the end of both the quantitative and verbal sections. These scores are on a continuous scale.
2. These scores are mapped onto an internal scale. Let's call these scores "internal scores".
3. These internal scores are combined to arrive at a total (internal) score.
4. All these scores are then converted to the scaled scores that are exposed to the test taker (6 to 51 for quant and verbal, and 200-800 for the total).
The internal scales are slightly more accurate than the ones exposed to you. For example, let's say two people got a Q49 each. Now, a Q49 could indicate a performance level anywhere between 72% and 86% (Q49 is 72%, and Q50 is 86%), so it's entirely possible that one of them got a "low" Q49 and the other got a "high" Q49. This is the reason that you don't always see the same total for the same score combinations.