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20 Aug 2021, 10:38
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Hello,
I gave my GMAT a couple of days back in which I got V42 with only two questions marked incorrect and that too in the 4th quarter. Though I reached my target score of 760, I still cannot wrap my head around getting such a low score with only two mistakes.
Does anyone have any idea why I got this score?
I gave my GMAT a couple of days back in which I got V42 with only two questions marked incorrect and that too in the 4th quarter. Though I reached my target score of 760, I still cannot wrap my head around getting such a low score with only two mistakes.
Does anyone have any idea why I got this score?
21 Aug 2021, 09:30
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Hi mehulsinghal98,
The most likely reason is that you received a bunch of easy questions. Here are some similar ESRs: 1 and 2.
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Hi mehulsinghal98,
Someone posted on Reddit yesterday about the exact same issue...was that you also? That person also answered only two questions wrong, both in the final quarter, yet "only" earned a V42 score (96%), losing 9 points off their Verbal score (out of 51) in the process.
Are you sure that you definitely finished the Verbal section? Do you think there is a chance you may have neglected to confirm the final answer, and thus incurred the penalty for not finishing?
That said, having recently seen a 3-wrong V41, as AjiteshArun has already noted, I suppose it's not super-shocking to see a 2-wrong V42, but still, V42 usually correlates to 4-5 wrong, and I've never seen a V42 score with only 2 wrong before.
On the other extreme, we have seen scores of as low as V28 (50%) with as few as 9 questions wrong, and scores as high as V40 with as many as 10 questions wrong, so clearly, the adaptive scoring algorithm can still make a big difference on Verbal, even if the algorithm's influence isn't as obvious as it is on Quant.
Note: When I refer to "questions wrong," I am obviously referring to counted questions only: every GMAT Verbal section has 6 uncounted, experimental questions.
Someone posted on Reddit yesterday about the exact same issue...was that you also? That person also answered only two questions wrong, both in the final quarter, yet "only" earned a V42 score (96%), losing 9 points off their Verbal score (out of 51) in the process.
Are you sure that you definitely finished the Verbal section? Do you think there is a chance you may have neglected to confirm the final answer, and thus incurred the penalty for not finishing?
That said, having recently seen a 3-wrong V41, as AjiteshArun has already noted, I suppose it's not super-shocking to see a 2-wrong V42, but still, V42 usually correlates to 4-5 wrong, and I've never seen a V42 score with only 2 wrong before.
On the other extreme, we have seen scores of as low as V28 (50%) with as few as 9 questions wrong, and scores as high as V40 with as many as 10 questions wrong, so clearly, the adaptive scoring algorithm can still make a big difference on Verbal, even if the algorithm's influence isn't as obvious as it is on Quant.
Note: When I refer to "questions wrong," I am obviously referring to counted questions only: every GMAT Verbal section has 6 uncounted, experimental questions.
