Verbal Score Break up

Hi thaks25 ,

Quality practice means practicing every type of question, determining your weakness and working on that. You should not just keep on practicing without taking your mistakes seriously and working on them. Maintain an error log of your mistakes and make sure you don't repeat the same mistake twice.

All the best.

Your post is generally correct - it's the difficulty level of the questions that primarily matters, not strictly the number of right or wrong answers (though in general, right answers are a good thing). Wrong answers on easy questions make it very difficult to score well. But it is not the case that you can get a V48+ score with ten wrong answers, ignoring experimental questions. I'm fairly sure you can't get a V48 with more than two wrong answers, regardless of difficulty. A V46 is already in the 99th percentile, and you need to be nearly perfect to do better than that. You might think of it this way - there are no questions on the test with a difficulty level 'above' the 99th percentile, so every Verbal question on the test is supposed to be easy or medium to a V46+ level test taker, and to get a V46+, you can't get many questions wrong that are meant to be easy for you.

The situation is very different in the Quant section - someone with a Q48 will almost always have at least ten wrong answers (unless their test was full of easy questions, which sometimes does happen on some GMATPrep tests with small question banks), but most of those wrong answers will be on hard questions, questions above the Q48 level. There are lots of those on the GMAT if you're doing well.