V27 with 31 questions right?

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HI, can anyone help me understand how verbal score is calc?

Up till now, I thought it was based on a %age of how many qs you get right (In this case 31/41 = 75%)

which should give me a score of mid 30s at least.

This is from a Princeton Review practice test, I'm pasting the test result

Verbal
 Question Correct You Time Category
 1 E A 01:70:37 Idiom
 2 C + 00:05:00 RC General
 3 E + 00:01:04 RC Specific
 4 A + 00:00:54 RC Specific
 5 B + 00:00:46 Idiom
 6 D E 00:00:35 Misplaced Modifier
 7 C + 00:04:42 Weaken
 8 E D 00:01:41 Weaken
 9 A B 00:02:38 Resolve/Explain
 10 C + 00:01:12 Subject/Verb Agreement
 11 C + 00:01:57 Inference
 12 B + 00:04:53 RC General
 13 C + 00:00:44 RC Specific
 14 C B 00:01:58 RC Specific
 15 C + 00:01:35 RC Reasoning
 16 E + 00:01:45 Parallel Construction
 17 D + 00:00:51 Parallel Construction
 18 B + 00:01:14 Misplaced Modifier
 19 E + 00:01:37 Subject/Verb Agreement
 20 C + 00:01:46 Evaluate
 21 A + 00:01:34 Weaken
 22 B + 00:02:34 Weaken
 23 C + 00:02:37 Evaluate
 24 D + 00:03:11 Weaken
 25 B + 00:06:11 RC Specific
 26 B D 00:01:04 RC Specific
 27 E B 00:01:22 RC Specific
 28 C + 00:03:55 Reading Comp.
 29 D + 00:01:03 Verb Tense
 30 B + 00:01:44 Resolve/Explain
 31 E + 00:00:40 Idiom
 32 B A 00:01:35 Subject/Verb Agreement
 33 A + 00:01:00 Red Pencil Fever
 34 A + 00:01:03 Red Pencil Fever
 35 B + 00:01:58 Weaken
 36 E + 00:03:17 RC General
 37 C + 00:00:55 RC Specific
 38 D C 00:00:32 RC Specific
 39 E + 00:00:45 Weaken
 40 B + 00:00:54 Parallel Construction
 41 C 00:00:01 Verb Tense
Total Performance
 R W U % Correct % Unanswered
 31 9 1 76% 2%

The end result was a Verbal score of 27?

echelon99 · Answer

i can't help but get seriously demotivated. i haven't touched quant up to this point but i spent over a month going over the verbal section...

macjas · Answer

Hey there, IMO, the Princeton Review CATS are not all that good. Stick with GMATPrep and MGMAT CATs. Secondly, the verbal (and for that matter the quant) score is based on the difficulty level of questions answered. The reason you got so many right questions and got a 27 raw score is because IMO, Princeton Review calculates your level more or less in the first ten questions. Read these  GMAT Club Test Reviews  to get a better understanding of all the choices available to you.

echelon99 · Answer

I agree, even the PR book goes out of its way to stress the importance of the first 10 questions. But that still shouldn't push out such a low score? I've seen people getting 14-15 wrong to get a score so bad.

Additionally the test wasn't even structured properly. It vomited out 5 CR passages at me and one of them (a long, science passage) only correlated with one question. So I wasted 2-3 minutes making notes on the passage and reading it only to realize it was associated with only 1 general questions (Main idea).

macjas · Answer

To put things into perspective, I started practicing CATS about a month ago.

Princeton Review CAT 1: V33
MGMAT CAT 1: V36 (I had timing issues)
MGMAT CAT 2: V41. 
GMAT Prep 1: V41.

All four tests taken within a span of four weeks. So at least for me, there was a real and questionable difference.

echelon99 · Answer

makes me feel a lot better. if you don't mind me asking, how many were you getting wrong in the verbal section when you were averaging 40s?

My cousin lent me a **** load of gmat paper cats, photocopied. Why is it paper and cat? Well, they are on paper and they have GMAT Practice CAT written on the top. The questions are of varying difficulties and everything's been photocopied so I don't even know which books they are from. But I thought I'd use them for practice and I've been averaging 38-41 each test. Which is why I was so dissapointed in PR's score.

Oh well, not much to do. Will start my Quant prep tomorrow, got all 5 MGMAT quant books to go through. I'll keep practicing my verbals and try not to read too much into PR...

macjas · Answer

Sure, if it helps:

MGMAT CAT 1: 17 wrong. V36

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MGMAT CAT 2: 14 wrong. V41

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GMATPrep:
Like a fool, I closed the software windows before reviewing. However, I remember getting 10 wrong with a V41.

Notes:
MGMAT CAT 1: I did not do the AWA and IR sections.
MGMAT CAT 2: I took the whole test.
GMAT Prep: took the whole test

macjas · Answer

Princeton Review CAT 1: V33 31 wrong :crazy:

pretty awful stats on this one! This was my first test. I did the AWA but skipped the other essay. Capture 0.JPG

echelon99 · Answer

thanks for the updates, wow that just totally blows my assumptions away. guess right or wrong matter little, specially if u got 30+ with 33 wrong! hmm i guess i'll try my luck again with MGMAt in a few weeks. when are you planning on taking the test? I was thinking end of Aug but not so sure anymore.

macjas · Answer

Yes I would recommend setting aside the PR Cracking the GMAT book. Mine is laying around gathering dust. At some point the GMAT was a paper test and the paper tests that you have are from that era. GMAC still sells them on their website though. One more suggestion: don't do only quant or verbal for long stretches. Keep doing a little of both. I tried doing quant for a stretch and switching to verbal but it was not helping me.

hbsaspire · Answer

I had taken the new GMATPREP CAT last week and I got a VA 21 and QA 48. Total score was 570. But I am a little perplexed by how you got a VA 36 with 17 wrong.

Because I landed a VA 21 with 17 wrong on GMATPREP. Is there something fishy here or is it normal? Any inputs?

echelon99 · Answer

i got a v27 with 9 wrong. im realizing now getting right or wrong matters little. apparently the level of questions account for your scores. i don't anyone can get mid-600s or higher with only easy-medium questions. so basically if you mess up in the start, your done unless u work really hard and get the cat to raise ur difficulty. thats my theory anyway...

macjas · Answer

My V36 was on my MGMAT CAT 1, not GMATPrep. And like I always say, don't focus on the algorithm, just focus on doing your best.

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