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Hi to all the GMAT community, I took the GFE 3 days ago and when I saw the scores at the end of the exam I was quite disappointed, but today that I could see the official report, that disappointment turned into disconcertment and even fury!
Quick context: latin male interested in a masters (mainly in Europe), and based on my research I need a score of ~585 (old 640) for the programs I have in mind. So maybe for many my scores look pretty ugly or mediocre but I wanted to give you an idea of where I'm coming from
The reason for my post is to share with you my Official Exam score compared to my previous mocks (all official), because I can't understand how my score (and therefore percentile) was so low despite having the most correct questions in Quant and Verbal of all the exams I have taken!
As you can see in the picture, in the official exam I had only 4 errors in Quant for a score of 80 and 8 errors in Verbal for a score of 78 (less than average despite a 65% correct score), which compared to my last mock I had less wrong but worse score
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And I fully understand that the scoring depends on the difficulty of the questions, but considering the behavior of the official mocks and supposedly the same algorithm as the official exam, I am very puzzled by this discrepancy in the number of correct/incorrect questions with previous exams
I've seen several posts recently from people with similar problems, which while it may not be the general rule for most, I'm beginning to believe it may be a trend and it makes me question whether it's even worth the effort to go back and do it again
Thanks to all who took the time to read the post, I'll keep an eye out for any responses
Note 1: in quant I changed 1 question from good to bad. You read it right, terrible mistake on my side
Note 2: that unanswered DI question (and therefore its penalty) in the final exam was due to a problem with the test center because the page was down for 30 seconds and did not let me send the answer. I have already passed the case to Pearson and I am waiting for a response. Has anyone else gone through something similar?
Quick context: latin male interested in a masters (mainly in Europe), and based on my research I need a score of ~585 (old 640) for the programs I have in mind. So maybe for many my scores look pretty ugly or mediocre but I wanted to give you an idea of where I'm coming from
The reason for my post is to share with you my Official Exam score compared to my previous mocks (all official), because I can't understand how my score (and therefore percentile) was so low despite having the most correct questions in Quant and Verbal of all the exams I have taken!
As you can see in the picture, in the official exam I had only 4 errors in Quant for a score of 80 and 8 errors in Verbal for a score of 78 (less than average despite a 65% correct score), which compared to my last mock I had less wrong but worse score
⬇️
And I fully understand that the scoring depends on the difficulty of the questions, but considering the behavior of the official mocks and supposedly the same algorithm as the official exam, I am very puzzled by this discrepancy in the number of correct/incorrect questions with previous exams
I've seen several posts recently from people with similar problems, which while it may not be the general rule for most, I'm beginning to believe it may be a trend and it makes me question whether it's even worth the effort to go back and do it again
Thanks to all who took the time to read the post, I'll keep an eye out for any responses
Note 1: in quant I changed 1 question from good to bad. You read it right, terrible mistake on my side
Note 2: that unanswered DI question (and therefore its penalty) in the final exam was due to a problem with the test center because the page was down for 30 seconds and did not let me send the answer. I have already passed the case to Pearson and I am waiting for a response. Has anyone else gone through something similar?
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17 Jul 2024, 08:10
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Regarding your Note 2, it would be interesting to see how Pearson helps you since there is no real way to compensate you for it.
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17 Jul 2024, 08:17
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unanswered question does lead to penalty ... check your DI you have un attempted 1 question... scoring algorithm depends on a lot of factors not just count of mistakes..
