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Pearson Vue score translation 22 Mar 2006, 09:54
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Guys,
I took a couple of practice tests from the GMAT Prep (the new one) and got 700 and 680. The corresponding number of wrong answers are 13 - 14 in Quant and 12-13 in Verbal. Does this sound right? Do we get such high scores with so many wrong answers?

Please let me know how close the GMAT Prep results are to that of the real ones.

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Just to make things a bit more complicated.. other day I got 13 questions wrong in English.. and i got 29 in English..

I think it depends, on what questions you get right and what questions you get wrong..
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In addition to the previous post, they don't score every question. They choose certain questions from the total to score your performance.
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Pearson Vue score translation 22 Mar 2006, 12:51
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It can be complex. Remember that this year the test is not the standard pencil & paper version, with every question worth the same, but the Computer Adaptive Test, where the first questions count the most.

As an example, your first question is going to be about a '50th percentile' question. Get it right and you get points for it, plus your next question is more valuable and harder, say, a '70th-percentile' question. If you get it wrong, you get no points, but your next question is easier, say a '40th-percentile' question. The system uses that to home in on where you should be ranked, with harder questions worth more when you get them right than easier questions, and a smaller range of movement as you answer the section.

So, a strong early response could establish you in a high range, quite possibly better than someone who answers more questions right, but who misses more early questions, and so gets lighter-value questions than you do.

Hope that makes sense.
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Pearson Vue score translation 22 Mar 2006, 12:55
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Thanks for the input guys. I think I answered most of the early ones right.
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