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Ok - in August I took the exam and got a 44Q 33V and a 630 overall

My sister took the exam yesterday and got a 44Q 32V 640 overall

I ask how is this possible? Is there something in the scoring I dont know about? By my calculations I should have at least a 640 - possibly a 650.
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It's funny how it works.

I had 51Q 35V and got 690. While others with 50Q 35V got 700 or 710.

I don't get it....
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"Hindustan" you are unlucky here man.... BTW ur name's very interesting! :!:
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well even worse i got a 46Q and a 32V and got a 640... who knows how they do this dumb stuff
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Ok - in August I took the exam and got a 44Q 33V and a 630 overall

My sister took the exam yesterday and got a 44Q 32V 640 overall

I ask how is this possible? Is there something in the scoring I dont know about? By my calculations I should have at least a 640 - possibly a 650.
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I thought I'd be able to answer this in a second, but I can't come up with any logical explanation whatsoever.
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May be the difficulty of the tests is different so they have to add or remove points to get a balanced score among the test takers?

I was also surprised as I took few of the paper tests. The grid which allows you to evaluate your score is not the same. With the same number of points, the overall score can differ from test to test.
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May be the difficulty of the tests is different so they have to add or remove points to get a balanced score among the test takers?

I was also surprised as I took few of the paper tests. The grid which allows you to evaluate your score is not the same. With the same number of points, the overall score can differ from test to test.
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It could be a good explanation of it.

Following your idea and admitting that guy 1 made Q49 V38 and guy 2 made Q50 V40, we can image these men with both a 720.

Some things appear unfair on both side but more for the first guy.

For the guy 1
> He received "harder" questions and thus can loose his confidence and consume more energy during the test. That could bring him to a lower performance.
> He remains with means of percentile on both verbal and math sections. But, as the questions are harder, these means of percentile are not representative. Schools will probably miss read this aspect and use the average percentile as given by the GMAC result.

For the guy 2
> Schools will look at the overall score that appear to be less high.

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May be the difficulty of the tests is different so they have to add or remove points to get a balanced score among the test takers?

I was also surprised as I took few of the paper tests. The grid which allows you to evaluate your score is not the same. With the same number of points, the overall score can differ from test to test.
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The paper tests were scaled based on the results of the testing pool. So one a given exam, if it was really difficult, you might be able to miss 7 and achieve 750, but on a different exam you might only be able to miss 4 to get 750. That's a function of the paper tests - they are not adaptive.

The current GMAT is, of course, adaptive and difficulty of the questions change as you go along, depending on how well you are doing.
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