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08 May 2023, 17:41
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Hello, I have been doing some practice adaptive Quant and Verbal sections on Magoosh. After the end of each section, Magoosh only displays the number of correct and wrong answers, and does not provide a score. In general, how can I assess if I am doing good or bad in an adaptive section? The number of wrong answers does make it seem that I did bad, but at the same time, most, if not all, of my wrong answers are from Hard questions.
08 May 2023, 17:48
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It’s a good question and I’m glad you’re asking it. It’s a bummer they don’t provide you with some kind of a score estimate.
I would say it’s important to get a sense of how you’re performing on a daily basis even if you’re not taking adaptive tests or adaptive sections.
Here’s my very quick and dirty back of napkin calculation. It’s not precise and it’s not exact but it’s fast and applicable to anything so I trade off precision to speed and convenience.
1. Take a group of question that consists of a about equal number of easy medium hard questions. It doesn’t matter if you have three questions or 30. I usually prefer to have about 10 for accuracy.
2. Take them 😂
3. Here is the tricky part:
* 10% wrong - 750
* 20% wrong - 700
* 30% wrong - 650
* 40% wrong - 600
* 50% wrong - 550
(I did not bother to figure out the difficulty of the question I made a mistake it. I mistake is a mistake. A stupid mistake is easy to eliminate. But a hard question is hard to crack and missing one out of three hard ones was acceptable for me. You have to also obviously assume that you’re only taking questions you know how to solve. There’s no reason to apply a method or take questions you don’t know how to solve.)
I use this approach for both quant and the verbal section. Now, I know that the scores on those sections are not measured in the 800-base score but this was an easy way for me to set my sites in target and get a sense of where I would be landing.
So I’m wondering if you can apply the same approach to the Magoosh section? I think you can calibrate a bit if the section is too much weighted towards difficult questions or it has too many easy questions. I don’t think it goes precision bit more of a consistent measurement so even if you use the same imprecise system but consistently, you can get some precision that way… if this makes any sense 😂
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I would say it’s important to get a sense of how you’re performing on a daily basis even if you’re not taking adaptive tests or adaptive sections.
Here’s my very quick and dirty back of napkin calculation. It’s not precise and it’s not exact but it’s fast and applicable to anything so I trade off precision to speed and convenience.
1. Take a group of question that consists of a about equal number of easy medium hard questions. It doesn’t matter if you have three questions or 30. I usually prefer to have about 10 for accuracy.
2. Take them 😂
3. Here is the tricky part:
* 10% wrong - 750
* 20% wrong - 700
* 30% wrong - 650
* 40% wrong - 600
* 50% wrong - 550
(I did not bother to figure out the difficulty of the question I made a mistake it. I mistake is a mistake. A stupid mistake is easy to eliminate. But a hard question is hard to crack and missing one out of three hard ones was acceptable for me. You have to also obviously assume that you’re only taking questions you know how to solve. There’s no reason to apply a method or take questions you don’t know how to solve.)
I use this approach for both quant and the verbal section. Now, I know that the scores on those sections are not measured in the 800-base score but this was an easy way for me to set my sites in target and get a sense of where I would be landing.
So I’m wondering if you can apply the same approach to the Magoosh section? I think you can calibrate a bit if the section is too much weighted towards difficult questions or it has too many easy questions. I don’t think it goes precision bit more of a consistent measurement so even if you use the same imprecise system but consistently, you can get some precision that way… if this makes any sense 😂
ksan
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08 May 2023, 18:59
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Hi ksan,
Generating a score estimate from accuracy alone is hard, and generating an accurate score estimate from accuracy alone is impossible. Consider taking an official practice test once you're comfortable with the basic concepts.
