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gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2008, 11:16
My experience of the practice gmatprep

Q51 is the max you can get on the gmatprep, but it is unclear how the program computes the score. I have scored 51 with 3 wrong questions, but typically, 2 wrong questions = 51, 3 wrong questions = 50. I have also managed a perfect score and still it was a 51. For these tests, I usually just skipped the verbal by just randomly guessing, and get 6-7 verbal questions correct. The Q51 scores were due to me having familiarization with some of the questions.

I also took the test and forced myself to complete the verbal section. I got a Q51, with a V33, a total of only 700. I just took the complete practice test again yesterday, but the surprising part is that I got 6 (that is right, 6) math questions wrong, including the very first question, and still got a Q51. I got V42 for a total score of 760.

My guess is that the verbal score does effect the lienency of the computation of the math score (or vice versa?).
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2008, 13:48
thats very interesting. I've never seen that before. Verbal does not affect your math score. You must have answered a lot of the 51 level questions correctly
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2008, 17:06
Two things come to mind:

1) If your practice scores are as high as 760, why are you even wondering? It won't matter if you get a 760 or 770 on the real thing once you cross a certain threshold.

2) you're overthinking it. It's an anomaly, but again, so what?
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2008, 21:02
I am not worried or concerned about the "abnomaly". I just thought that it is interesting to report the scores for the gmatprep. Someone posted that he/she got 12-13 math questions wrong and still got a Q48. So I hope that this info can help people realize that the "best score" is only Q51, and there is alot wiggle room for a 50-51 score.

Also, my 4 misses were out of the last 8 questions (including the last question), so I suppose that the score 48-51 level scores are set/achieved at around questions 28-30. So there could be some truths about the strategy of giving more time to work on the early questions, eventhough the official guide claims that strategy is based on myths.
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   28 Apr 2008, 10:13
gmatnub wrote:
I am not worried or concerned about the "abnomaly". I just thought that it is interesting to report the scores for the gmatprep. Someone posted that he/she got 12-13 math questions wrong and still got a Q48. So I hope that this info can help people realize that the "best score" is only Q51, and there is alot wiggle room for a 50-51 score.

Also, my 4 misses were out of the last 8 questions (including the last question), so I suppose that the score 48-51 level scores are set/achieved at around questions 28-30. So there could be some truths about the strategy of giving more time to work on the early questions, eventhough the official guide claims that strategy is based on myths.

I have a couple data points to add to this as well. I took a GMATPrep a couple weeks ago, missed 12 Quant questions, and scored a 48. I didn't miss any until the 8th question. Yesterday, on the other hand, I only missed 9, but scored a 46. I missed 3 of the first 10.
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   28 Apr 2008, 16:50
gmatnub wrote:
I am not worried or concerned about the "abnomaly". I just thought that it is interesting to report the scores for the gmatprep. Someone posted that he/she got 12-13 math questions wrong and still got a Q48. So I hope that this info can help people realize that the "best score" is only Q51, and there is alot wiggle room for a 50-51 score.

Also, my 4 misses were out of the last 8 questions (including the last question), so I suppose that the score 48-51 level scores are set/achieved at around questions 28-30. So there could be some truths about the strategy of giving more time to work on the early questions, eventhough the official guide claims that strategy is based on myths.


If questions at various stages are weighted differently, it would be very interesting. We'll probably never know if this is applicable to the real GMAT, will we?
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   29 Apr 2008, 13:34
MeddlingKid wrote:
I have a couple data points to add to this as well. I took a GMATPrep a couple weeks ago, missed 12 Quant questions, and scored a 48. I didn't miss any until the 8th question. Yesterday, on the other hand, I only missed 9, but scored a 46. I missed 3 of the first 10.


So out of the 37 questions, you had 12 wrong and received a 48??? I scored a 33 and didn't miss anything until the 7th question and had 13 wrong...

This is where I do not understand the scoring.
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   29 Apr 2008, 14:19
RyanDe680 wrote:
MeddlingKid wrote:
I have a couple data points to add to this as well. I took a GMATPrep a couple weeks ago, missed 12 Quant questions, and scored a 48. I didn't miss any until the 8th question. Yesterday, on the other hand, I only missed 9, but scored a 46. I missed 3 of the first 10.


So out of the 37 questions, you had 12 wrong and received a 48??? I scored a 33 and didn't miss anything until the 7th question and had 13 wrong...

This is where I do not understand the scoring.

You missed 12 and received a 33? That doesn't make sense to me.
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Re: gmatprep experience [#permalink] New post   29 Apr 2008, 22:11
MeddlingKid wrote:
RyanDe680 wrote:
MeddlingKid wrote:
I have a couple data points to add to this as well. I took a GMATPrep a couple weeks ago, missed 12 Quant questions, and scored a 48. I didn't miss any until the 8th question. Yesterday, on the other hand, I only missed 9, but scored a 46. I missed 3 of the first 10.


So out of the 37 questions, you had 12 wrong and received a 48??? I scored a 33 and didn't miss anything until the 7th question and had 13 wrong...

This is where I do not understand the scoring.

You missed 12 and received a 33? That doesn't make sense to me.



It does make sense actually. Missing 12 out of the last 30 is basically 50%, you gain a point and lose a point. Worst yet, if you miss 2-4 in a row, you drop your score to a much lower level, and you have to build back the score.
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