Q49 with 3 Wrong and V44 with 2 Wrong

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