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Hi everyone - I am writing because I am devastated at the moment. I have prepared for the GMAT for the past three months. Beginning of January, I did my first official practice test and scored a 630 (V38, Q38) which I thought for only a month of very light study, this was a reasonable result and a good baseline. Last week, I did the second practice exam and was delighted - I scored a 710 (V41, Q48) and considered booking the GMAT Online basically for the next day. In the end, I decided to wait for another two weeks to get one or two points more in either Quant or Verbal. So today, I did another official practice test and was shocked: I scored a 630 again, this time with V42 (so improvement of one point) and... Q32. 17th percentile.
I genuinely don't get it. Especially because in my 710/Q48 test, I got 11 questions incorrect while in my 630/Q32 I got 10 questions incorrect - one less! I get that the number of questions that you answer correctly is not what matters, but still. A 16 point difference even though I answered one more question correctly?
The only possible explanation that I can think of is how the questions that I got wrong are distributed - for some reason (maybe I wasn't yet fully concentrated? I don't know), there was a streak of wrong questions right in the beginning. After that streak, I only got a couple of questions wrong. In my 710 test - I checked - the wrong answers were much more dispersed.
Any input on this would be greatly appreciated!
I genuinely don't get it. Especially because in my 710/Q48 test, I got 11 questions incorrect while in my 630/Q32 I got 10 questions incorrect - one less! I get that the number of questions that you answer correctly is not what matters, but still. A 16 point difference even though I answered one more question correctly?
The only possible explanation that I can think of is how the questions that I got wrong are distributed - for some reason (maybe I wasn't yet fully concentrated? I don't know), there was a streak of wrong questions right in the beginning. After that streak, I only got a couple of questions wrong. In my 710 test - I checked - the wrong answers were much more dispersed.
Any input on this would be greatly appreciated!
20 Mar 2022, 13:44
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Hi gmattaker1202.
Missing an easy or medium GMAT question hurts your score much more than missing a hard question.
Meanwhile, the quant and verbal sections of the GMAT begin with medium questions.
So, it looks as if what happened to cause you to score so much lower on quant on this last test is that missed some medium questions, and possibly some easy questions, at the beginning of the quant section, bringing your quant score down significantly.
In contrast, its likely that, on the other quant sections, you missed a question here and there because it was hard. Missing those hard questions, rather than easy or medium questions, allowed you to score much higher.
One way to avoid missing the easy or medium questions at the beginning is to warm up before you take the GMAT, or a practice test, by answering some practice questions, getting into game mode before the test begins rather than during the first questions of the test.
For more insights into how the GMAT is scored, see this post.
How Is the GMAT Exam Scored?
Missing an easy or medium GMAT question hurts your score much more than missing a hard question.
Meanwhile, the quant and verbal sections of the GMAT begin with medium questions.
So, it looks as if what happened to cause you to score so much lower on quant on this last test is that missed some medium questions, and possibly some easy questions, at the beginning of the quant section, bringing your quant score down significantly.
In contrast, its likely that, on the other quant sections, you missed a question here and there because it was hard. Missing those hard questions, rather than easy or medium questions, allowed you to score much higher.
One way to avoid missing the easy or medium questions at the beginning is to warm up before you take the GMAT, or a practice test, by answering some practice questions, getting into game mode before the test begins rather than during the first questions of the test.
For more insights into how the GMAT is scored, see this post.
How Is the GMAT Exam Scored?
20 Mar 2022, 14:42
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A huge fluctuation on scores may partly be the result of knowledge gaps. On the Q48, for example, perhaps you got a bit lucky when it came to certain topics you are slippery on. The algorithm may have quickly moved on and then asked more questions on topics you were better at.
How to get better at GMAT Quant. Add with an algebra mindset.
How to get better at GMAT Quant. Add with an algebra mindset.
