GMAT CLUB TIMER for Verbal

Question

I believe that performance (% correct and time) shown on the GMAT club timer represents a hypothetical person at about the 80% percentile level (V36-37). Example: I seem to consistently get V35 on the real GMAT and CATs, which is 76th percentile, yet the performance stats shown on the GMAT club timer are typically faster and more accurate than my answers. What are other peoples opinions on this?

plaverbach · Answer

This numbers comes from how people in GMAT Club did in that particular question! =)

Kinshook · Answer

GMATClub timer statistics is about that particular question.

bb · Answer

Each timer represents the statistics for that particular question only in terms of % correct and % wrong. It is possible that there is a relationship of some sort that works out that way.

While the question alone provides stats for the % of questions right/wrong, the collective group of questions determines the individual question difficulty. For example, a question is identified as hard based on the difficulty percentile ranking vs all other questions of that type (e.g. PS. or DS or CR or SC or RC).

Therefore, technically a timer will tell you 2 things: 
1. How the question ranks vs. other questions and gives you an idea how hard/easy it is
2. How people have performed on that particular question
P.S. Over 1,000,000 timer attempts are made each month

Thanks,
B.

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