Quote:
*Amalgum23 writes:*
@bb and other moderators
I took Official Mock 4 yesterday, and my biggest concern is that I scored a Q96, even though only 3–5 questions seemed particularly difficult, with about 75% of them rated at the highest difficulty level according to GMAT Club.
Is this representative of what I can expect on the actual exam? This mock felt very different from the other official mocks and the sectional quizzes on GMAT Club.
Has the scoring algorithm changed, or is there something else going on? If anyone could help me understand these differences, it would be greatly appreciated. Understanding what happened would help me identify areas for improvement, especially since I am taking my official GMAT attempt in nine days.
The paid tests unfortunately have a fairly small question bank as you have discovered so the high scores are a bit unreliable in the paid gmat prep. Most people get a bit surprised by their official test after the GMAT prep exams 3, 4, 5, and 6.
They are built for a certain audience and primarily for people scoring between 25th and 75th percentile, or 20th and 80th but not for the people who are aiming to score in the top 1 or 3% so they’re less reliable as a predictor of high score scores.
Also, getting a high quality score is really Chany because a single mistake takes you down quite a bit... it’s tough
So it’s good you’re looking at it and questioning some of the results...
Because there are not many hard questions in the exam pack for that particular test, it doesn’t really have a high confidence and a high ability to estimate your true potential at that level. It would do a much better job if you were looking for Q 82 or something like that
It is not a bad product. You are just not the core audience for it.