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04 Aug 2024, 03:51
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Hello Community!
I just gave my gmat focus and to my utter shock i scored a 665, while on my recent mocks I had consistently scored 695 and 705. I feel that the scoring in mocks and in the actual exam is very off and not really in sync. For example, in my DI section of mocks I used to make an average of 5-6 mistakes and some of these mistakes were in the question numbers 1-10. But even then the percentile never went below 80. But in my actual test I made 4 mistakes and my percentile shot down to 66.
Has someone else experienced this ? That the mistakes are way more penalising in the actual exam? Does this mean that to score high you need to make the fewest mistakes possible (Not more than 1-2), and the earlier notion that getting a high score with a lot of questions wrong (Hard ones only) is possible does not hold anymore ? Please help.
(Just to add that I scores a 100 percentile in quant but this discrepancy in DI really brought my score down, very bummed about it)
I just gave my gmat focus and to my utter shock i scored a 665, while on my recent mocks I had consistently scored 695 and 705. I feel that the scoring in mocks and in the actual exam is very off and not really in sync. For example, in my DI section of mocks I used to make an average of 5-6 mistakes and some of these mistakes were in the question numbers 1-10. But even then the percentile never went below 80. But in my actual test I made 4 mistakes and my percentile shot down to 66.
Has someone else experienced this ? That the mistakes are way more penalising in the actual exam? Does this mean that to score high you need to make the fewest mistakes possible (Not more than 1-2), and the earlier notion that getting a high score with a lot of questions wrong (Hard ones only) is possible does not hold anymore ? Please help.
(Just to add that I scores a 100 percentile in quant but this discrepancy in DI really brought my score down, very bummed about it)
04 Aug 2024, 14:39
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I second that the actual exam is a little different from the mocks. The questions on the mocks are rather direct while the real deal was wordy. Also, i noticed a few too many non-math related questions. Another observation is the number of mistakes as you pointed it out.
But, it isn't so that you need to make the least amount of mistakes. Under GMAT Debrief, you will find people who have a made 5+ mistakes and gotten 85ish. I reckon that inaccuracy in 'easy' questions is penalized more brutally.
But, fact remains, OG mocks are the closest indicator of probable GMAT score.
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A score within 30 points of the mock scores is to be expected. So I would say that 665 is at the lower edge but still within range if your mock scores were 695 - 705. The scoring on DI is fairly forgiving from what I have seen. You likely messed up some very easy questions to get such a huge penalty. Keep in mind that time management is very important. You must have some time to evaluate every question fully. Guess on a question only after you see that it is quite complicated. Randomly guessing (on an easy question) can be quite harzardous to the score.
