How my percentile is so low ?

Question

I have received the official scores and iam surprised with them .First,i have never received less than 49 q in the old gmat but have been surprised with the quant scores .admittedly,iam poor in algebra but i was always strong in every other aspects .anyway my main question is how, despite such high percentile in inidvidual di and verbal reasoning, my overall percentile section in both sections is too low? Can i complaint to the gmat on this issue ?i will be giving the exam under two weeks again?any advise or suggestions would be appreciated.
My score is 595 overall.

ashutosh_73 · Answer

sagarnamo1  I think in quant you may have missed few easy questions. In the new format, you get punished heavily(4-5 points) for missing out on an easy question. 
On the sub-sectional percentile part, experts have opined that they aren't very much reliable. You should rather focus on mistakes and the corresponding raw score.

sagarnamo1 · Answer

Yes i agree with quant score but iam concerned with my verbal and di scores.there is no way i can score below my overall section scores .thereis some glitch .i have not seen a single esr with such statistics yet.

MartyMurray · Answer

The Quant scoring on the Focus Edition is much tougher than the Quant scoring on the legacy GMAT. You could score Q49 on the legacy GMAT with 8 or more missed questions. The same type of performance on the Focus Edtion will likely get you a score in the 70s. So, your Quant score makes sense.

Regarding the percentiles in Verbal and DI, many people have noticed that strange type of outcome. Meanwhile, your percentiles for some question types are below your overall percentiles. So, the overall percentiles are not completely out of line with the subtopic percentiles.

I think your move is just to keep preparing, working on weaker topics, etc. to get more questions correct and achieve your target score.

egmat · Answer

sagarnamo1  - the sub-sectional scores on the GFE are not absolute. They are relative ML estimates and have a much larger standard error baked into them. Moreover, the sub-sectional scores do not penalize you if you leave a question unanswered. How do I know this - the first part was my guess while working on our own mock algo. I tried to come up with subsectional ability estimates and found this discrepancy. This, in turn, was confirmed by the GMAC. The second part is purely from the GMAC. Also, there are many ESRs with such discrepancies. In fact, you can simulate this in official mocks as well.

What your ESR tells you is that your CR is slightly stronger than your RC. Did you make just one mistake in CR? How many mistakes did you make in RC, and at what question numbers.

-Rajat

sagarnamo1 · Answer

Yes,i can see now that i have left last question unanswered in both di and verbal but its stange i marked but did not submit both of them.i thought just marking them would be enough.i got a one question incorrect and one question unanswered in cr.Rc i got four incorrect it seems. so overall six incorrect questions.my rcs were very difficult .

sagarnamo1 · Answer

Yes,it saddens me but i have to keep moving forward .sir,any suggestion on improving algebra? i think i will take care of the other two sections.Iam targetting more than 655.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

This is very helpful information. So, leaving any questions blank on the GMAT focus can really crush your score. Also, as you now know you need to click "submit" for the question to count. If you can avoid these mistakes on your next practice exam you'll see an improved score.

sagarnamo1 · Answer

But GMAT has punished me almost with 15 to 20 centile in both section .is this normal or an exception? my scores could have been 635 to 645 if that was not the case .

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ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

I don't think it's an exception, but when do you plan to take your next practice test?

sagarnamo1 · Answer

This Saturday and if all goes well ,I will be taking actual test on next weekend.

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