Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Definitely helps to have a perspective!
Congratulations on your score again. I also wanted to mention that You can definitely get both your quant and verbal scores up to probably at least 730 or maybe even 750. It is fairly common for a person who is strong in one area and is focusing all their efforts in another, to flip their strength and weakness. This is because a lot of the success depends on the new one same questions and a little things that we are holding a short term memory. If you take a long enough break, without staying in shape, you lose points.
bb wrote:
Congrats on your score!!!
It is interesting to see that you have changed and swapped the scores quite a bit.
PS. I don’t know that I have seen a direction or apoplectic saying the quant or verbal were ANY different on any format of the test. People and testtakers including myself are usually bad judges of question difficulty or test difficulty. Most of us believe that when we are answering questions well, we will get a good score. The reality is the opposite.
pfrancisco wrote:
Hi All,
I just took the GMAT again in a test center after taking the online version a few weeks ago and I think the results point out in the same direction as some other members'.
I scored a 660 on the online version (Q48 V34) and I just walked out with a 700 (Q44 V41, IR7). I obviously killed the quant section but I attribute it to a bad day and therefore not representative. I have never scored under 47 an typically have been at 49.
With that in mind and seeing that I am not the first one to mention it, I believe the verbal section of the online version does not match the real one and, while there is nothing to lose from taking the online version, it should not discourage anyone who has failed to get their expected score on the online Verbal.
Of course this is just MY case but hopefully it will be useful for people to develop their own opinion.
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bb,
It is indeed a big shift but the reason is that the past (several) weeks I have been focused on verbal which was my biggest weakness and I haven't done much for quant. I noticed as soon as I started doing the first problems that I was mentally slow and not as agile as usual, that's why I know it is not representative of my regular quant level.
I do not think the difference between online and 'physical' verbal lies in the format, but to be honest I really can't tell what it was...only that I do think that there is something different.
I also know what you mean about judging the difficulty. For me a feeling of increasing difficulty while doing Quant typically leads to a higher score (it makes sense), whereas for Verbal I can tell when I am doing well and normally matches the score.