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No, I got 97 percentile in DI with 6 wrong
99 percentile in V with 2 wrong
As already mentioned
GMAT actual is unpredictable because u don't know how many were experimental questions
I know a someone who had done 3 mistakes in V and still got 100 percentile... those three were experimental questions. Making mistakes in them contribute none to the score
What is predictable is the mock score only where you don't have such questions.
You can predict where you will stand if you would have made 2 more questions right in mocks
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*Vasavan writes:*
> Sorry to mention but
> GMAT is linear in terms of percentile scoring and not in terms of absolute scoring
> So for example if it’s DI there are 20 Ques in total,each question contributes 5 percentile
> Making 1 mistake reduces 5 percentile more or less and similarly in other sections
> The only unpredictable nature that actual GMAT has is the number of experimental questions making mistakes to which doesn’t contribute.
> But they aren’t there in mocks So mock percentiles and scores are very pred
I don’t think the gmat is percentile linear as well. It depends on which difficulty of questions you get wrong as well. A person who gets the 10th question wrong is not going to get the same percentile as the person who gets the very last question wrong. This has happened to me in the actual gmat with significant percentile difference for getting 1 question wrong in both tests
This linearity of percentile prediction matters only in mocks
Not in actual test is what I mentioned
It's just to gauge oneself while preparation during mocks
Not in actual test
If u want, you can verify this with your mocks taken previously...