How accurate is the GMAT Official Starter Kit practice test score?

Question

today's the first gmat-study-day, and just took the official prep test to get a better picture of it

the score was 750 (7 on integrated reasoning, 44 on verbal, 49 on quantitative), but saw i got a lot of questions wrong on the practice exam review page.

is the score accurate?

cantaffordname · Answer

To be honest, 750 in cold mock is brilliant score, according to GMAC, you get +-30 from your GMAT prep mocks. Hence they are very close representation of actual GMAT.

If your target score is 720+ I would suggest you to book the date and go ahead for the exam. Only few people get such good score in first mock.

All the best.

Abhi077 · Answer

GMAT official practice tests have a scoring algorithm closest to the actual test. Also, the question quality is similar. consider a difference of +/- 30-40 points on actual test. It's the most accurate test among all the others. I think you're doing great, remember that your score depends upon how many hard questions(700 level) you answer answer correct and not how many questions in you answer correct in total.

MartyTargetTestPrep · Answer

Scores on the official GMAT Prep practice tests are good for estimating how you would score on the real test.

Regarding the missed questions, while missed questions in the verbal section drive your score down fairly quickly, you can miss a fair number of quant questions and still score rather high.

One possible issue to be cognizant of is that the questions have evolved a bit since that practice test was created. So, the questions on today's GMAT, while not exactly more difficult than the ones you saw, will, in many cases, be structured a bit differently from the ones you saw, especially in verbal. GMAT Prep tests 5 and 6 contain questions more like the ones that appear on the actual GMAT today.

Regarding how to move forward, to lock in your high score and possibly score higher on the real thing, review all of the test questions to see how you could have gotten more correct and to find ones that you weren't really comfortable answering. For any that you weren't really sure how to answer or that took a lot of time to answer, learn all about how to answer questions of that type and then answer dozens of questions of that type until you mastering answering them.

By mastering answering questions that you had trouble with on this test, you will fill in gaps in your knowledge and skills.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi djgif2i934,

A 750 is an exceptional initial CAT Score (the Average Score on the Official GMAT hovers around 550 most years) - so you're likely a really strong overall critical thinker. Whether you can consistently score at that level (and on the Official GMAT) or not will depend on a variety of factors. When you took this CAT, did you do anything that was unrealistic (such as pausing the Exam, using a calculator, seeing questions that you already knew the answers to, etc.)? The more you deviate from the specifics of how the Official GMAT is run, the greater the likelihood of your results can become 'inflated.' Assuming that you took this CAT in a realistic fashion though, we should assume that this result is accurate.

Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on your timeline and your goals:

1) What is your overall goal score?
2) When are you planning to take the GMAT?
3) When are you planning to apply to Business School?
4) What Schools are you planning to apply to?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

sonaligoel · Answer

Do the GMAT Official mocks account for missed questions? I ended up missing a question in Quant but scored a 690 (Q47, V37) in my first mock. Did the test penalise me for missing 1 question?

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