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11 Nov 2016, 23:49
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Hi,
I have took a gmatprep exam yesterday and scored 680 (Quant-49(83rd percentile), Verbal-33(67th percentile)). When checked the answers, I have marked 15 answers wrong in each (quant & verbal) of the sections. inspite of it, it shows my score as 680. I am confused how to analyze this score as i don't feel good about my performance for marking so many wrong answers. can someone throw light on how could i able to get such a score inspite of so many wrong answers.
I have took a gmatprep exam yesterday and scored 680 (Quant-49(83rd percentile), Verbal-33(67th percentile)). When checked the answers, I have marked 15 answers wrong in each (quant & verbal) of the sections. inspite of it, it shows my score as 680. I am confused how to analyze this score as i don't feel good about my performance for marking so many wrong answers. can someone throw light on how could i able to get such a score inspite of so many wrong answers.
12 Nov 2016, 00:55
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I have took a gmatprep exam yesterday and scored 680 (Quant-49(83rd percentile), Verbal-33(67th percentile)). When checked the answers, I have marked 15 answers wrong in each (quant & verbal) of the sections. inspite of it, it shows my score as 680. I am confused how to analyze this score as i don't feel good about my performance for marking so many wrong answers. can someone throw light on how could i able to get such a score inspite of so many wrong answers.
As long as you took the test properly, you should be fine. Many test takers who get great scores don't feel that they're doing too well during the test. That's to be expected in an adaptive exam. 
12 Nov 2016, 05:23
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Hi,
I have took a gmatprep exam yesterday and scored 680 (Quant-49(83rd percentile), Verbal-33(67th percentile)). When checked the answers, I have marked 15 answers wrong in each (quant & verbal) of the sections. inspite of it, it shows my score as 680. I am confused how to analyze this score as i don't feel good about my performance for marking so many wrong answers. can someone throw light on how could i able to get such a score inspite of so many wrong answers.
I have took a gmatprep exam yesterday and scored 680 (Quant-49(83rd percentile), Verbal-33(67th percentile)). When checked the answers, I have marked 15 answers wrong in each (quant & verbal) of the sections. inspite of it, it shows my score as 680. I am confused how to analyze this score as i don't feel good about my performance for marking so many wrong answers. can someone throw light on how could i able to get such a score inspite of so many wrong answers.
Counting how many you got wrong is really not the best way to understand the score.
First, not all questions are considered to compose your score. Most of the questions are valid for the score, but GMAT also mixes experimental questions. So, it does not make any difference to the score if you get an experimental question right or wrong.
Second, getting 15 easy questions wrong is very different from getting 15 very hard questions wrong. Once GMAT detects you are strong, it will give you harder and harder questions. So, even if you get several questions wrong, GMAT already knows you are strong.
Third, it seems that the patterns of wrong and right questions also makes a difference in your score. If you get many wrong questions in the beginning, it may be hard to recover even if you get many questions right after that. But if you get many questions right in the beginning, getting a few of thm wrong in the end will not make such a big difference. Getting several questions wrong in a row seems also to be worse then getting the same number of questions wrong but alternating with right ones.
Fourth, I don't see much sense comparing the way Verbal and Quant sections are scored. They are differente beasts, in my opinion.
So, instead of worrying about how many questions you got wrong, I think you should worry about what kind of questions you are getting wrong. Are they 700+ level questions, or 500 level questions? Are they in the beginning, or in the end? Are they SC, or RC? And so on. Then you can focus on your weaknesses and know your strengths.
