GMATPrep Verbal Score

Just to piggyback what BB said, there is absolutely more leeway with Quant than Verbal. I'd wager it has to do with percentiles as once you get into the 90% on quant the margin for error also starts to shrink considerably. While the scale score may be super close, I think the percentiles is a better way to look at how much room for error you have, in the Q40-47ish you're only in that 60 percentile range whereas you're pushing 99th percentile verbal so it's better to compare those rather than to compare the 1-51 score.

For example I got a Q47 and V45 and I'd say it wouldn't be far fetched to think that I missed 12-15 math problems (as long as you ace sub 700 you should be in the 40s) and very possibly could've missed only 2 verbal 700lvl problems (or maybe even just one 500-600 lvl).

I have a retake coming up (atrocious IR score) and am also focusing heavily on quant, best of luck to the both of us!

P.S. "shadowfax" as in Lord of the Rings? I'm all about it.

Thank you for commenting @redfield, so I take it adcom confirmed that you actually need to retake? Is that the verdict?


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Shadowfax as in Lord of the Rings indeed!

Thanks for the detailed comment. I think that for Verbal, I can may be get one more point. I reviewed my answers and I def made a mistake in one of them. It's quant that I am struggling with. I have given 5 Kaplan and 2 Gmat Prep exams and my Quant score has been 47-49. I realized that I am making a lot of silly mistakes and I start assessing the question quality towards the end to guess my quant score. I will probably buy EP2, and try not to repeat those mistakes. Good Luck to you, however your score is already very good, but 45 in Verbal, that's incredible.