GMATPrep Verbal Score

Question

I just finished my second GMATPrep Mock test and got a score of 730 (Q48, V41).

However I was surprised at my Verbal score, because I got only 5 wrong answers. Though I was not expecting a higher score, I had expected more wrong answers. The answer numbers that I got wrong were - 8, 17, 21, 29 and 31.

Is this expected? I wonder what I would need to get a score higher than 41, since the highest people ever get is 44. Any ideas?

bb · Answer

Welcome to GMAT Club. Congrats on your score - great result.

As to your question. Nobody knows since the number of wrong answers does not determine your score. It is hard to fully reconcile since most practice is done on a % of correct or wrong answers.

However you can definitely get a night quant or verbal score (Q50 for example) even with 10 wrong.

See more experiments with GMAT prep here: gmat-prep-software-analysis-and-what-if-scenarios-146146.html

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shadowfax1 · Answer

Thank you. I have been following the gmat club posts and it has been really helpful. I have my exam on the 19th. Hoping to improve a little on the math score.

redfield · Answer

Just to piggyback what BB said, there is absolutely more leeway with Quant than Verbal. I'd wager it has to do with percentiles as once you get into the 90% on quant the margin for error also starts to shrink considerably. While the scale score may be super close, I think the percentiles is a better way to look at how much room for error you have, in the Q40-47ish you're only in that 60 percentile range whereas you're pushing 99th percentile verbal so it's better to compare those rather than to compare the 1-51 score.

For example I got a Q47 and V45 and I'd say it wouldn't be far fetched to think that I missed 12-15 math problems (as long as you ace sub 700 you should be in the 40s) and very possibly could've missed only 2 verbal 700lvl problems (or maybe even just one 500-600 lvl).

I have a retake coming up (atrocious IR score) and am also focusing heavily on quant, best of luck to the both of us!

P.S. "shadowfax" as in Lord of the Rings? I'm all about it.

bb · Answer

Thank you for commenting @redfield, so I take it adcom confirmed that you actually need to retake? Is that the verdict?

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shadowfax1 · Answer

Shadowfax as in Lord of the Rings indeed!

Thanks for the detailed comment. I think that for Verbal, I can may be get one more point. I reviewed my answers and I def made a mistake in one of them. It's quant that I am struggling with. I have given 5 Kaplan and 2 Gmat Prep exams and my Quant score has been 47-49. I realized that I am making a lot of silly mistakes and I start assessing the question quality towards the end to guess my quant score. I will probably buy EP2, and try not to repeat those mistakes. Good Luck to you, however your score is already very good, but 45 in Verbal, that's incredible.

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