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Very strange indeed! There has been quite a bit of discussion here: gmat-scoring-algorithm-my-observations-28493.html
Number of theories exist. What were the question numbers you missed prior to the last 10?

Have you taken GMAT prep before? Are you usually a high Math scorer?


I think they were 1 (10s) and 2 (20s). I took gmat 6 months ago and got 44 in math(First try). I only took gmatprep verbal section once.
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thank you Pathfinder_77
wow really good info. I should try that in verbal...;)
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thank you Pathfinder_77
wow really good info. I should try that in verbal...;)

:) Oh, Verbal... No my friend, verbal has totally different scoring algorithm. I am not 100% sure how it works, I assume the early questions are more important too, but its' scoring algorithm is fundamentally different than those of math section.

For example, you can score Q48 even if you made 15-16 mistakes. Of course, it depends on the distribution of your wrong answers. In Verbal, if you make 15-16 mistakes you will not score more than V34-35 ragardless of the distribution. If you score V48, it means you've made only 2-3 mistakes, or V37 - you've made somwhere arround 13 mistakes. Do you see the pattern?

It seems that verbal takes your 51 raw score and than discounts it for (n+1), where "n" is the number of mistakes you made during this section of GMAT. Due to this penalization of every single mistake, it is much harder to score high 40s in Verbal when compared to Quant.
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It seems that verbal takes your 51 raw score and than discounts it for (n+1), where "n" is the number of mistakes you made during this section of GMAT. Due to this penalization of every single mistake, it is much harder to score high 40s in Verbal when compared to Quant.


I've noticed this pattern as well. V45 = approx. 5 incorrect answers, V40 = approx. 10 incorrect answers, etc.
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Pathfinder_77 wrote:
It seems that verbal takes your 51 raw score and than discounts it for (n+1), where "n" is the number of mistakes you made during this section of GMAT. Due to this penalization of every single mistake, it is much harder to score high 40s in Verbal when compared to Quant.


I've noticed this pattern as well. V45 = approx. 5 incorrect answers, V40 = approx. 10 incorrect answers, etc.


...and V28 (13 incorrect)!, last week. There's big difference between 10 incorrect & 13 incorrect, however, I think its got to do with errors in SC / CR / RC. I got 7 errors in RC!
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...and V28 (13 incorrect)!, last week. There's big difference between 10 incorrect & 13 incorrect, however, I think its got to do with errors in SC / CR / RC. I got 7 errors in RC!

That's possible. i think we can conclude that Verbal is a way harsher grader than quant. The "discount" equation i gave overthere (n+1) will probably be the case when you don't have many mistakes in the first 10 questions and in situation where wrong answers are not clustered around some specific area (SC, CR or RC).

That is the reason I appeal on test takers to use GMATPrep as a practicing tool rather then the estimator of the future performance. many test takers "save" GMATprep tests for the last week in order to try to predict their performance on the real deal. Frankly, I don't see the point of that. What's the point of realizing 3 days before the test that you are going to score 680 on the GMAT? What can you do in 3 days to alter your faith?

Well, this is just my oppinion and my advice. In the end of the day, everyone should use Gprep (and every other tool) in the way which is most convenient for him/her. I just like to hear others experiences in testing the GMATprep. It seems that observation based on trial and error is our only weapon.
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