strivingFor800 wrote:
Awesome, thanks!
Interesting score report by the way. If I may ask, what caused such a high fluctuation in your quant scores?
Good question! It is known that GMAT section scores in both Quant and Verbal tend to fluctuate significantly from test to test, especially at the top and bottom end of the score range. In my opinion, the variation in my Quant scores is mostly due to carelessness, especially in the first quarter of questions, where the adaptive scoring algorithm makes it very hard to recover from careless mistakes.
I started tutoring the GMAT professionally in 2002. Ten years later, I took the GMAT for the first time and scored Q47 (I was doing great in the 1st half of questions, but ran out of time at the end--my problem on that particular attempt was time management more than carelessness), and I had scored Q50 and even Q51 on official GMATPrep exams before I
finally scored Q50 on the real test in 2017.
In general, I find that official GMAT scores vary about plus or minus 4 points from your average section score. The average section score for my last 5 GMATs is Q46/V45 (
currently 730 composite), but it has varied about plus/minus 4 points in both directions, on both sections, over the course of my last 5 official exams.
The take-away?
There is very little margin for error if you want to score Q50 or above, especially in the first quarter of questions.
-Brian