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Re: GMAC Prep Test 3 vs. Test 4 [#permalink]
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Hi nycgirl212,

The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. It takes into account a number of different factors - far more than just the number of correct answers. As such, you shouldn't be spending time trying to figure it all out. You'd be better served working on building up your skills.

A far more useful gauge would be to review each CAT and determine how many questions you SHOULD have gotten correct, but didn't (due to a silly/little mistake). Those mistakes are the things that you have to fix to score at a higher level.

1) How many of the questions did you get wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
2) How many questions did you get wrong because you were low on time (and had to guess)?

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Re: GMAC Prep Test 3 vs. Test 4 [#permalink]
EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi nycgirl212,

The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. It takes into account a number of different factors - far more than just the number of correct answers. As such, you shouldn't be spending time trying to figure it all out. You'd be better served working on building up your skills.

A far more useful gauge would be to review each CAT and determine how many questions you SHOULD have gotten correct, but didn't (due to a silly/little mistake). Those mistakes are the things that you have to fix to score at a higher level.

1) How many of the questions did you get wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
2) How many questions did you get wrong because you were low on time (and had to guess)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich


Some of them were silly mistakes, some were because of a shortage of time.
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Re: GMAC Prep Test 3 vs. Test 4 [#permalink]
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Hi nycgirl212,

At your current scoring level, the GMAT becomes really 'sensitive' to little mistakes - if you make too many of them then there will be a limit to how high you can score. The good news is that those silly/little mistakes should be fairly easy to 'fix.' It would help if you could better define the pacing 'issue' that you faced on this last CAT. How many actual questions did you have to rush through (and guess on) at the end of each of the Quant and Verbal sections?

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