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13 Feb 2006, 07:30
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Folks, I've only lurked on GMATClub for the last week, wish I had found it sooner to keep me motivated through the ups and downs of studying for the GMAT. My story is an interesting one. I made the decision to go back to school on January 2nd. Booked the test for February 11th so that I'd have some time to get into some later rounds of good schools. It was a hard, focused 5 weeks (or at least for me) -- 1500 problems and 72 hours.
I'll send another post regarding my preparation when I get home this evening and have my pretest scores in front of me. They were nowhere near the 730 range; I was really hoping to get a 680.
Here's the crazy part -- I could not sleep Friday night (test was at 9:45AM Saturday morning). I literally got 30 minutes of sleep between 5-5:30AM. I really should have stayed home and rescheduled, but I was so pissed and frustrated that I decided to take the test anyway. Everything went smoothly regarding admin of the test, and I felt very focused on the Quant, which is typically my weakness. When I started the Verbal, I couldn't comprehend ANYTHING that I was reading. My mind was so dead that I would reread sentences over and over again and couldn't register the meaning. It was so frustrating! What was even crazier was that all the reading excerpts were ridiculously short, the SC's were very short and seemed remedial compared to GMATPrep and PowerPrep. Thus it seemed to confirm my fear that I was doing poorly. I had been getting 38-39v range on practice tests and through question 30 I thought I had blown it and was expecting about a 32. I go through the survey and await my 610. Alas, a 730 pops up!!!! A part of me is still waiting for the call telling me this was all a computer error. I feel as if I guessed way too much on verbal and the questions were too short and easy. I don't quite get it, but I'll certainly take it!!!!
So has anyone heard of any experiences where the unofficial scores are different than official scores? I still have a fear in the back of my mind that I'm just being teased by Pearson.
What a great board. As so many other people say, wish I had found it earlier. Will certainly tell friends to start here!
I'll send another post regarding my preparation when I get home this evening and have my pretest scores in front of me. They were nowhere near the 730 range; I was really hoping to get a 680.
Here's the crazy part -- I could not sleep Friday night (test was at 9:45AM Saturday morning). I literally got 30 minutes of sleep between 5-5:30AM. I really should have stayed home and rescheduled, but I was so pissed and frustrated that I decided to take the test anyway. Everything went smoothly regarding admin of the test, and I felt very focused on the Quant, which is typically my weakness. When I started the Verbal, I couldn't comprehend ANYTHING that I was reading. My mind was so dead that I would reread sentences over and over again and couldn't register the meaning. It was so frustrating! What was even crazier was that all the reading excerpts were ridiculously short, the SC's were very short and seemed remedial compared to GMATPrep and PowerPrep. Thus it seemed to confirm my fear that I was doing poorly. I had been getting 38-39v range on practice tests and through question 30 I thought I had blown it and was expecting about a 32. I go through the survey and await my 610. Alas, a 730 pops up!!!! A part of me is still waiting for the call telling me this was all a computer error. I feel as if I guessed way too much on verbal and the questions were too short and easy. I don't quite get it, but I'll certainly take it!!!!
So has anyone heard of any experiences where the unofficial scores are different than official scores? I still have a fear in the back of my mind that I'm just being teased by Pearson.
What a great board. As so many other people say, wish I had found it earlier. Will certainly tell friends to start here!
13 Feb 2006, 09:49
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Way to go.
13 Feb 2006, 10:45
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A great score indeed and please accept my heartiest congratulations on this. However, I have to make a comment here…...In old ETS days, there were hardly any people who reported a total disagreement between their actual performance during the exam and the verbal score they ended up getting but under Pearson, you are at least the 10th guy in last 6 weeks who cannot believe his own Verbal score based on his performance in the exam. Luckily, in your case, it is positive but there are so many other people who claimed that they did perform really well during verbal part and ended up getting 21 or 24. They also claimed that they never scored below 30 in the GMAT Prep and Power prep.
I am relly serious. I am paying special attention to this particular issue of unreliability in one’s verbal score under Pearson System. I believe that Pearson Scoring Algorithm for verbal portion has some serious problems. It is not consistent by any means. I have seen too many people scoring above 40 and then there are also too many people scoring below 24. I mean, either it would be too good or it would be too bad….I go to testmagic.com, scoretop.com and gmatclub.com every day and for last 6 months or so, I have not missed one single GMAT debriefing at any of these websites and therefore, I am kind of worried about Pearson verbal scoring algorithm.
