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20 Dec 2014, 16:48
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Hello everyone,
I am currently experiencing a very frustrating performance on the quant section of my practice exams (I use the official GMAT Prep software). My quant section performance is as follows (for the first tests, I only noted down the percentile scores, not the scaled scores; you may also take a look at the attachment which shows my percentile scores over time):
practice test 1: 40th percentile (46% correct answers)
practice test 2: 30th percentile (didn't write down % of correct answers)
practice test 3: 61st percentile (54% correct answers) Since I'm relatively strong on verbal and relatively weak on quant, I was very happy about this score.
practice test 4: 44th percentile (43% correct answers) After this drop, I read MGMAT guide 0, according to which the reason for wildly fluctuating test scores often lies in bad time management. So on my next practice test, I applied "watertight timing compartments and forced guessing". The result was:
practise test 5: 34th percentile
(59% correct answers)
When I look at the percentage of correct answers, my timing and guessing approach seems to work (without a lot of additional math content study, I got more questions right than ever before). But how can it be that I get 59% of the answers correct, and still score worse than when I get only e.g. 43% of the questions correct?
(I know, there are penalties for not finishing the section on time, but I didn't do that. According to MGMAT guide 0, there are also penalties for getting a string of several questions wrong, but when I check the review screen of my last practice test, I can see that also the strings of more than one wrong answer in a row look better than on the test where I score in the 61st percentile. According to MGMAT, most People scoring up to 700 get aproximately 60% of their answers correct, but still, does this explain why 59% correct answers yields so much worese a percentile score than e.g. 43% correct answers?)
Any explanations/comments on the above are appreciated. I can provide screenshots of the score reports and Review screens of tetst no. 3 and 5 if that helps explaining.
Many thanks.
Edit: When I took practice test 5, I only completed the quantitative section and just chose "C" on all questions of the verbal section. My verbal scaled score therefore was 6 (0th percentile). There is no possibility that this low verbal score somehow affected my quantitative score, right?
I am currently experiencing a very frustrating performance on the quant section of my practice exams (I use the official GMAT Prep software). My quant section performance is as follows (for the first tests, I only noted down the percentile scores, not the scaled scores; you may also take a look at the attachment which shows my percentile scores over time):
practice test 1: 40th percentile (46% correct answers)
practice test 2: 30th percentile (didn't write down % of correct answers)
practice test 3: 61st percentile (54% correct answers) Since I'm relatively strong on verbal and relatively weak on quant, I was very happy about this score.
practice test 4: 44th percentile (43% correct answers) After this drop, I read MGMAT guide 0, according to which the reason for wildly fluctuating test scores often lies in bad time management. So on my next practice test, I applied "watertight timing compartments and forced guessing". The result was:
practise test 5: 34th percentile
(59% correct answers)When I look at the percentage of correct answers, my timing and guessing approach seems to work (without a lot of additional math content study, I got more questions right than ever before). But how can it be that I get 59% of the answers correct, and still score worse than when I get only e.g. 43% of the questions correct?
(I know, there are penalties for not finishing the section on time, but I didn't do that. According to MGMAT guide 0, there are also penalties for getting a string of several questions wrong, but when I check the review screen of my last practice test, I can see that also the strings of more than one wrong answer in a row look better than on the test where I score in the 61st percentile. According to MGMAT, most People scoring up to 700 get aproximately 60% of their answers correct, but still, does this explain why 59% correct answers yields so much worese a percentile score than e.g. 43% correct answers?)
Any explanations/comments on the above are appreciated. I can provide screenshots of the score reports and Review screens of tetst no. 3 and 5 if that helps explaining.
Many thanks.
Edit: When I took practice test 5, I only completed the quantitative section and just chose "C" on all questions of the verbal section. My verbal scaled score therefore was 6 (0th percentile). There is no possibility that this low verbal score somehow affected my quantitative score, right?
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23 Dec 2014, 16:42
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Hi snatch123,
The scoring algorithm on the GMAT is far more complex than you think it is. There are a number of factors that go into the calculation, including the relative difficulty level of the question, whether you were expected to get it correct or incorrect, when the question occurred, what happened "around" the question, whether the question even counted or not (some questions are experimental and are worth 0), if you run out of time and leave questions unanswered, etc.
This means that getting more correct answers doesn't necessarily get you a higher score. As such, the data you've provided is not enough information for me to properly assess your situation - I'd really need to see the Scaled Scores for each of those CATs to tell you what's really going on.
As far as what you should be looking to do to improve, a full review of each CAT is required. Take a look at EVERY question (not just the ones that you got wrong) and look for patterns - what did you do right, what did you do wrong? On the questions that you got wrong, WHY did you get them wrong? Was it because of a silly/little mistake or was it because the question was too hard? Were you low on time and did you have to guess on a bunch of questions at the end? Too many silly mistakes will kill a Test Taker, so that's the first (and arguably the most important) thing for you to work on is fixing the little mistakes.
What resources are you using to study?
When are you planning on taking the Official GMAT?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
The scoring algorithm on the GMAT is far more complex than you think it is. There are a number of factors that go into the calculation, including the relative difficulty level of the question, whether you were expected to get it correct or incorrect, when the question occurred, what happened "around" the question, whether the question even counted or not (some questions are experimental and are worth 0), if you run out of time and leave questions unanswered, etc.
This means that getting more correct answers doesn't necessarily get you a higher score. As such, the data you've provided is not enough information for me to properly assess your situation - I'd really need to see the Scaled Scores for each of those CATs to tell you what's really going on.
As far as what you should be looking to do to improve, a full review of each CAT is required. Take a look at EVERY question (not just the ones that you got wrong) and look for patterns - what did you do right, what did you do wrong? On the questions that you got wrong, WHY did you get them wrong? Was it because of a silly/little mistake or was it because the question was too hard? Were you low on time and did you have to guess on a bunch of questions at the end? Too many silly mistakes will kill a Test Taker, so that's the first (and arguably the most important) thing for you to work on is fixing the little mistakes.
What resources are you using to study?
When are you planning on taking the Official GMAT?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
31 Jan 2015, 05:42
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