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20 Dec 2014, 10:36
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Disclaimer : The thread related to Gmat prep scenarios has grown very long, hence thought of posting my results and questions in a new thread. Please merge if needed.
Just finished exam 2 of exam pack and got a 730 ( Q 50, V 39). Number of mistakes and position of mistakes as below.
Quant : 5 mistakes at questions 15,18,23,30,35.
Verbal : 9 mistakes at questions 4,14,15,16,29,33,37,40,41
Understandably the continuous verbal mistakes at 14,15,16 should have been avoided.
However, The question that I have have for experts is on the quant section; how to get a 51 ? I know getting all questions correct might, but that is undeniably a exceedingly challenging task. To be more specific, how many question does one need to answer correctly to get a 51 in quant? based on other analysis and researches of the software?
Any help will be appreciated.
Just finished exam 2 of exam pack and got a 730 ( Q 50, V 39). Number of mistakes and position of mistakes as below.
Quant : 5 mistakes at questions 15,18,23,30,35.
Verbal : 9 mistakes at questions 4,14,15,16,29,33,37,40,41
Understandably the continuous verbal mistakes at 14,15,16 should have been avoided.
However, The question that I have have for experts is on the quant section; how to get a 51 ? I know getting all questions correct might, but that is undeniably a exceedingly challenging task. To be more specific, how many question does one need to answer correctly to get a 51 in quant? based on other analysis and researches of the software?
Any help will be appreciated.
21 Dec 2014, 20:51
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I'm interested to hear opinions on this as well. Spacing of wrong answers is extremely important. I will be taking the GMAT on Dec 30th and recently took a GMATPrep exam. Ended up with 7 questions wrong on Quant, relatively evenly spaced including one of the first 10 incorrect (#5). Only had 4 questions wrong on verbal and was shocked to see 750 (49Q 42V) split. Lowest score I've ever had on verbal. Closer examination showed that the first question was wrong on verbal. The other 3 errors were evenly spaced throughout the test. The moral of the story is this: do NOT get the first question wrong on either section. It can be disastrous.
22 Dec 2014, 00:09
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The relationship between the number of incorrect questions and getting a Q51 depends on the average difficulty of that particular administration of the GMAT. You see this difference in Exam 3 and Exam 4 of the Exam Pack 1. Exam 3 on average throws a lot harder questions than Exam 4, which means you can miss more questions on Exam 3 to get the same score compared to Exam 4. Also, in the free GMATPrep one could miss 6 questions and still get a Q51. However, the 6 you miss have to be all difficult questions, if you miss a bunch of easy ones and you still miss a total of 6, then you may not get a Q51. The difficulty level of the questions you miss is also an important determinant of whether you get a Q51 or not.
As far as not missing a bunch of questions in a row, that is difficult to control. It is not like in the exam I can tell myself that I cannot miss the next four questions, of course I am trying to get everything right. I don't know if there is anything specific that can be done to avoid that.
Ultimately it boils down to performing at a high level, where you are for sure not missing any of the easy and medium questions, and taking on most of the hard ones and missing a few here and there. I pay close attention to the easy and medium ones because I am more likely to miss those because of having my guard down. I might even double check my work to be absolutely certain that I got those questions right. This is pretty much the main strategy I follow.
Cheers,
Dabral
As far as not missing a bunch of questions in a row, that is difficult to control. It is not like in the exam I can tell myself that I cannot miss the next four questions, of course I am trying to get everything right. I don't know if there is anything specific that can be done to avoid that.
Ultimately it boils down to performing at a high level, where you are for sure not missing any of the easy and medium questions, and taking on most of the hard ones and missing a few here and there. I pay close attention to the easy and medium ones because I am more likely to miss those because of having my guard down. I might even double check my work to be absolutely certain that I got those questions right. This is pretty much the main strategy I follow.
Cheers,
Dabral
