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Can one analyze the Gmat official test scores? [#permalink] New post   26 Nov 2014, 07:56
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I would like to know if one can request for an analysis of the official score? Is this possible? I know its system based and it has its own algorithm etc.. but you think that it might have an issue sometime? Does it happen? I had read about one candidate who did not get the score immediately due to some system issue and received it almost 12 days later.

Why am I asking this? : One of my friend was constantly scoring a verbal 40+ score in all his mocks including the prep with a 51 in Quant and an overall of 720+ in all of his mocks. However, the final verbal test score was 28 and Quant 51.. Not questioning the accuracy or anything or saying that this person might not have done any mistake, but would just like to know if one can analyze the test scores if requested. Is that possible? I could not find anything about this on the web, hence posting it here. Would really appreciate if someone could throw some light.
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Re: Can one analyze the Gmat official test scores? [#permalink] New post   26 Nov 2014, 10:28
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Unfortunately no, the only report you get from your official exam is the scoring. While it is highly disappointing to have the score drop like that on the real exam, that is one of the realities of taking the GMAT. This drop in score is usually a result of several potential factors: seeing slightly different problems on the real exam, suffering test anxiety, running out of mental energy, having a bad day, or just bad luck.

My best advice is to prepare to take the exam again, taking several practice exams (especially the GMATPrep exams) before the test.

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Re: Can one analyze the Gmat official test scores? [#permalink] New post   26 Nov 2014, 20:39
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Sharp wrote:
Hi,

I would like to know if one can request for an analysis of the official score? Is this possible? I know its system based and it has its own algorithm etc.. but you think that it might have an issue sometime? Does it happen? I had read about one candidate who did not get the score immediately due to some system issue and received it almost 12 days later.

Why am I asking this? : One of my friend was constantly scoring a verbal 40+ score in all his mocks including the prep with a 51 in Quant and an overall of 720+ in all of his mocks. However, the final verbal test score was 28 and Quant 51.. Not questioning the accuracy or anything or saying that this person might not have done any mistake, but would just like to know if one can analyze the test scores if requested. Is that possible? I could not find anything about this on the web, hence posting it here. Would really appreciate if someone could throw some light.


Check out this post. It will throw some light on why people may get unexpected verbal scores in the actual GMAT: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/2013/08 ... bal-score/
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Re: Can one analyze the Gmat official test scores? [#permalink] New post   26 Nov 2014, 23:31
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There is talk at GMAC about introducing a detailed post exam report(link at the bottom). They are still working on the details, however the exam report would be the same as the information that was recently added to the GMATPrep Free Practice tests. Perhaps this would be one way to answer these discrepancies. In general, I recommend taking the official GMATPrep tests under conditions as close to the real exam possible(for example a quiet place in a library, and taking the entire test in one sitting). I have never seen much of departure from GMATPrep tests and official tests when a student has implemented this approach.

Here is the excerpt from mba.com:

Enhanced score reporting for all completed exams in GMATPrep Exam Pack 1.

The Quant and Verbal score report provides results by question type including, user score, mean score, and percentile ranking on each subsection.

The IR score report includes user score, percentile ranking and time management reporting.

Valuable time management reporting to gauge your pacing

Enhanced score reporting will also be available for free exams with the purchase the GMATPrep Exam Pack 1."

Link about the new GMAT reporting: gmac-annual-summit-188582.html#p1442904

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Can one analyze the Gmat official test scores? [#permalink] New post   27 Nov 2014, 00:48
Thank you all for the reply.
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