Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
28 Nov 2016, 23:12
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi,
I gave a GMAT prep mock test (1st of the 2 free test on mba.com) on 27th Nov 2016, Sunday and got the following score :
Overall Score 560
Quant : 44 (24/37) - 65% Accuracy
Verbal 21 (25/41) - 61% Accuracy
The GMAT Prep does not give details of difficulty level for individual questions or explanation for the correct answer.
On further analysis, I realized the reason I didn't do well in Quant is I only got 4/10 right in the first ten. This must have pulled down my sectional score.
Quant breakup :
Question 1 to 10 : 4/10
Question 11 to 20 : 9/10
Question 21 to 30 : 5/10
Question 31 to 37 : 5/7
However, for Verbal section I am baffled why I got only a sectional score of 21 when I got 60% of the questions right.
I do understand that I might have got majority of the 500's and 600's right but would have faltered in 650+ ones but with a 60% accuracy I would have expected a sectional score of 30+
Verbal breakup :
Question 1 to 10 : 6/10
Question 11 to 20 : 6/10
Question 21 to 30 : 7/10
Question 31 to 37 : 6/11
Individual section breakup :
Sentence Correction : 10/17
Critical Reasoning : 6/11
Reading Comprehension : 9/13
I would request if someone could help me understand where did I falter in Verbal and how should I work to improve my verbal to 35+ at least.
Regards,
Varun
I gave a GMAT prep mock test (1st of the 2 free test on mba.com) on 27th Nov 2016, Sunday and got the following score :
Overall Score 560
Quant : 44 (24/37) - 65% Accuracy
Verbal 21 (25/41) - 61% Accuracy
The GMAT Prep does not give details of difficulty level for individual questions or explanation for the correct answer.
On further analysis, I realized the reason I didn't do well in Quant is I only got 4/10 right in the first ten. This must have pulled down my sectional score.
Quant breakup :
Question 1 to 10 : 4/10
Question 11 to 20 : 9/10
Question 21 to 30 : 5/10
Question 31 to 37 : 5/7
However, for Verbal section I am baffled why I got only a sectional score of 21 when I got 60% of the questions right.
I do understand that I might have got majority of the 500's and 600's right but would have faltered in 650+ ones but with a 60% accuracy I would have expected a sectional score of 30+
Verbal breakup :
Question 1 to 10 : 6/10
Question 11 to 20 : 6/10
Question 21 to 30 : 7/10
Question 31 to 37 : 6/11
Individual section breakup :
Sentence Correction : 10/17
Critical Reasoning : 6/11
Reading Comprehension : 9/13
I would request if someone could help me understand where did I falter in Verbal and how should I work to improve my verbal to 35+ at least.
Regards,
Varun
30 Nov 2016, 13:08
Kudos
Bookmarks
There's no simple method of determining score from % correct. As you acknowledged, your score depends greatly upon the difficulty of the individual questions that you got right and wrong. Sequence matters, too, although missing more at the beginning is not necessarily the problem people think it is. Missing many problems in a row usually means that you will dip down into lower-level questions and reduce your score.
It's also important to note that the quant and verbal sections don't really work the same way. Most people who are scoring well in quant will get about 60% correct, regardless of score. (This changes at the extremes, but not always by very much.) However, in verbal, you need to get more like 70+% correct at a fairly high difficulty to score well.
In the end, the best thing to do is to avoid running afoul of the scoring system--don't time out, don't overinvest on individual questions, and avoid long stretches of missed questions--but otherwise to think about the algorithm as little as possible. It isn't simple or transparent, so all you can do is try to maximize your overall performance and keep improving. Good luck!
It's also important to note that the quant and verbal sections don't really work the same way. Most people who are scoring well in quant will get about 60% correct, regardless of score. (This changes at the extremes, but not always by very much.) However, in verbal, you need to get more like 70+% correct at a fairly high difficulty to score well.
In the end, the best thing to do is to avoid running afoul of the scoring system--don't time out, don't overinvest on individual questions, and avoid long stretches of missed questions--but otherwise to think about the algorithm as little as possible. It isn't simple or transparent, so all you can do is try to maximize your overall performance and keep improving. Good luck!
