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13 Jun 2020, 11:06
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Hi Everyone,
I just took GMAC Practice Exam 6 and scored a Q49 with only 3 incorrect and a V44 with only 2 incorrect for a combined score of 750. I would've expected Q50+ and V46+ with the number of incorrect questions and ideally a 770+. Has anyone had any experiences like this? For reference, I got the 3rd, 9th, and 21st questions wrong on Quant and the 24th and 32nd wrong in Verbal. All of these questions are ranked as medium-high to very-hard difficulty when I searched them on GMAT Club, so this shouldn't be a result of missing easy questions.
I'm a little perplexed and would appreciate any insights that the community can provide. Thanks in advance!
I just took GMAC Practice Exam 6 and scored a Q49 with only 3 incorrect and a V44 with only 2 incorrect for a combined score of 750. I would've expected Q50+ and V46+ with the number of incorrect questions and ideally a 770+. Has anyone had any experiences like this? For reference, I got the 3rd, 9th, and 21st questions wrong on Quant and the 24th and 32nd wrong in Verbal. All of these questions are ranked as medium-high to very-hard difficulty when I searched them on GMAT Club, so this shouldn't be a result of missing easy questions.
I'm a little perplexed and would appreciate any insights that the community can provide. Thanks in advance!
Hey jphogan94
Like you said, your mistakes in the quant section were fairly early into the test. Consequently, the algorithm would have pegged you to a lower score and every correct answer, while being beneficial incrementally, wasn't enough to get you back up to the score you had hoped for.
If all your mistakes had been in the the last three questions, your score might have looked very different.
Like you said, your mistakes in the quant section were fairly early into the test. Consequently, the algorithm would have pegged you to a lower score and every correct answer, while being beneficial incrementally, wasn't enough to get you back up to the score you had hoped for.
If all your mistakes had been in the the last three questions, your score might have looked very different.
14 Jun 2020, 08:40
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Hello, jphogan94. That does seem a little harsh for Verbal, perhaps for Quant as well. What question types were the ones you missed in Verbal? SC? CR? RC? As for Quant, I know that I have seen people miss as many as eight questions and still earn a 50, but it has also been the case that their errors occurred in the middle and later portions of the test. Moreover, I have read in more than one debrief that Practice Test 6 tends to run easier than others on the whole. Still another person posted recently about the official practice tests, speculating on whether the upper limit of the scaled scores was set at 49, since he had missed a single question in Quant (I believe) as part of a simulation and generated such a score. Maybe, all things considered, the score you earned makes a little more sense.
I would be pleased if I were you that I had gone through a gauntlet of 58 questions and missed only 5. That is a handful of questions away from perfection! I often tell my high-shooting students who are earning really competitive scores in practice that the numbers attached to the performance mean a lot less at that level than the actual number of questions answered incorrectly. Sure, if you could choose where in the test to miss questions, you would do so later, but pull back those two or three questions per section, and the pendulum could swing the other way entirely, and that sort of volatility provides an element of excitement.
My best advice? Study those questions you missed inside and out. Go over, too, any you felt less than certain of—i.e. look them up and pore over the dialogue on them in the forum—so that you can set yourself up for success in the next run.
Good luck with your studies. (Focus on clawing back those few questions. No one disputes that getting all the questions correct leads to a perfect score.)
- Andrew
I would be pleased if I were you that I had gone through a gauntlet of 58 questions and missed only 5. That is a handful of questions away from perfection! I often tell my high-shooting students who are earning really competitive scores in practice that the numbers attached to the performance mean a lot less at that level than the actual number of questions answered incorrectly. Sure, if you could choose where in the test to miss questions, you would do so later, but pull back those two or three questions per section, and the pendulum could swing the other way entirely, and that sort of volatility provides an element of excitement.
My best advice? Study those questions you missed inside and out. Go over, too, any you felt less than certain of—i.e. look them up and pore over the dialogue on them in the forum—so that you can set yourself up for success in the next run.
Good luck with your studies. (Focus on clawing back those few questions. No one disputes that getting all the questions correct leads to a perfect score.)
- Andrew
