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Ah, yes! Thankfully, the calculator works fine.

I told Parth that maybe GMAT Blues and a lower-than-expected score got into your head, which is why you saw the Verbal Score wrong. His argument is, he has never seen sub-sectional percentiles EVER! (And obviously enough, that's just additional piece of data-not-required). This is the first time he saw his percentiles, mistaking them to be sectional scores. He clearly remembers first seeing a 79 and a 82 in the Verbal row. Oddly enough, a V 82 is 79th Percentile where as a V 79 is 51st Percentile. He argues, how did he see a correct set of Percentile-Score if "what he saw was wrong".

Unfortunately, neither do I have a counter argument nor do I personally think GMAC would make an error like this. Since there is no print out unlike Classic Times, there is no support / proof of the argument. Basically, it is what it is, now

In my 705, I had a sectional split of Q90, V84, DI 81. My V84 was exactly 17/23 in accuracy with 7/10 in CR (88th percentile) and 10/13 in RC.

Parth's V79 is also a 17/23 but with 8/10 in CR (the 2 wrong ones are boldface questions) [with 51st Percentile!] and 9/13 in RC. Also, My DI 81 came with a 13/20 accuracy, which is the same for Parth, but he ended up with a DI 75.

Seems like in all 3 sections, he made errors on easy questions but answered tough ones correctly.

How Brutal is the game of GMAT!

Don't know what to make of all this. Emails have been sent but Parth and I, both know, a score change is impossible.

Also, his sectional order was V - break - Q - DI.
He also had a 3-4 minute server lag between one of his RC questions. A good enough time to forget what was exactly in the passage. But that's again a common issue so all in all, GMAT God's weren't in his favor that day!

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That's unfortunate. Did the proctor add the time lost back to your friend's test? If not, that should (technically) entitle your friend to a free retake.

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I think the chances of getting a free retake are slim unforunately. I think by choosing to continue and getting a score, a test taker is basically validating that they are OK with test as is (that seems to be the basis of GMAC or Test Administrator's judgement) and only if the test cannot be finished, only then do they provide a retake... it seems to be quite unfortunate but perhaps I am wrong? that would be nice if I were wrong.

­No, you are not wrong, and that's why I added "technically" in my reply. If I remember correctly, the GMAT handbook mentions that issues can be raised after the test as well, but getting Pearson to act on something after the test is over is very hard.

Hi Ajitesh!

He did not lose time. What happened is, there was a long RC passage (probably based on economics as he remembers the passage was about global trade and foreign policy) and he went through everything, business as usual. After answering the first question, the screen went blank (similar to what happens when a mock test loads - two blue bars at the top and bottom and a blank white screen in between). This went on for 3 to 4 minutes before the second question finally appeared.

I too had faced this issue when I took my exam, but the lag was hardly for a minute. I believe, a 3-4 minute lag is enough for someone to re-read the nuances of the passage. I would have reported this to the proctor. He didn't, as there was no time loss.

He did put up a query to GMAC about score deviation in Verbal along with his massive percentile loss in CR despite a 8/10 accuracy. GMAC has replied, "Test Centre Queries are handled by Pearson, so we are forwarding the query to them and closing the ticket from our end".

After this hilarious response, Parth is now preparing for a re-take and trying to forget that this 595 fiasco ever happened.
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With GFE, isn't "choosing to continue and getting a score" a default option now considering they've removed the option to cancel the score then and there, at the test centre? Also, I don't think anyone would make complaints to the proctor during the test while risking a time loss.

Weird. It's like GMAC has an absolute power and a test taker just has to accept whatever he receives!
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If your friend couldn't see the next question for 3-4 minutes, that's time loss.

I see that you faced a similar issue. It doesn't matter whether it's 1 min or 3-4 min. It's time loss. It's not normal, and I would be raising hell if it happened to me. ­

I remember, even while taking Official Mocks, sometimes the next question would take 30 seconds to a minute to load. The same happened during my actual exam too but in a couple of Quant Questions! Some other guy at the centre did inform the proctor about this (It seemed like he faced higher instances of server lag), but the proctor said that considering there is no time loss in the allotted 45 minutes, he cannot do anything and it is better to send an email to GMAC.

Despite all this, a 3 minute lag is unheard of. Parth [my friend] didn't even raise an objection as he thought he hasn't lost time in the allotted 45 minutes. I told him the exact same thing which you mentioned - "I would be raising hell if it happened to me" especially in between a long RC page [that too an economics based one!]

As an update, GMAC had passed on the query to Pearson and Pearson has now emailed Parth to get his details and know the exact issue.

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Your advice is spot on. Also, could you tell me which test centre(s) we're talking about here?

Pearson VUE Test Centre, Auro University, Surat, Gujarat.
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We're more likely to face issues at smaller centres like this one. If your friend retakes, I'd recommend choosing a Pearson Professional centre instead.

Thank you, and all the best to you both.

All percentiles in the calculator have been updated with the latest Aug 29th percentile release. No algorithmic changes have been observed or made. Official numbers can found here: https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat-exam/sco ... your-score and here: https://www.mba.com/-/media/files/gmac/ ... ug2024.pdf

Hi Guys. So earlier my percentile used to be 93%ile with a Focus score of 655 with a breakdown of Q84 V81 DI82
Even on the official site it used to show 93%ile but now it shows 91%ile on the official site. In your own calculator it showed me 93%ile but now its down to a 91%ile. When did they change it? I'm feeling a lil' sad now

­Hi,

I scored V77(33rd percentile) in official mock test-2 attempt(see attached file). Can anyone explain why? I had only one incorrect out of first 13 questions. Is the low score mostly due to the last question being left unattempted?­

I am also attaching official mock-1 attempt where I scored V82.­

Hi.GMAC updated the percentiles on 29/08/2024.

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­Hi Priyansh22796,

Leaving the last question almost certainly hurt your score. Although we don't know how many points you lost because of that, you should generally try to finish each section (mark and confirm answers to all questions in the section).

In my GMAT Prep experiments leaving questions unanswered resulted into losing about 4 points. (This is just one date point so this is not a hard rule because there could be other things that play).

But you can expect to lose more points for leaving a question unanswered than for answering it wrong.

Keep in mind that selecting the answer is also not good enough, you have to actually submit the answer and see the review screen before the time runs out.

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