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Hi all,
gave my GMAT FE 3 days ago and scored a 655, purely with self prep. I wont post a detailed debrief yet, as to be honest I am quite disappointed with my score and was expecting higher, especially my lower quant score where i got just 2 questions wrong and ended up with a Q82. Could someone help me understand what happened and whats the best way to move forward and score a 705+? Posting my sectionals below:
Quant:
Verbal:
Data Insights:
Any help would be appreciated, thank you. Should i reach out to GMAC if its possibly a mistake with their algorithm? (Although I am very certain there is something I am missing or might have don wrong in my quant sections which led me to this score, Im just not sure what)
gave my GMAT FE 3 days ago and scored a 655, purely with self prep. I wont post a detailed debrief yet, as to be honest I am quite disappointed with my score and was expecting higher, especially my lower quant score where i got just 2 questions wrong and ended up with a Q82. Could someone help me understand what happened and whats the best way to move forward and score a 705+? Posting my sectionals below:
Quant:
Verbal:
Data Insights:
Any help would be appreciated, thank you. Should i reach out to GMAC if its possibly a mistake with their algorithm? (Although I am very certain there is something I am missing or might have don wrong in my quant sections which led me to this score, Im just not sure what)
27 Apr 2026, 09:52
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Unfortunately, it's not all that unusual to miss just a couple of questions and end up in the low 80s on quant, and it's very, very unlikely that there was a scoring error.
We've asked GMAC about this phenomenon, and produced this video with them to help explain what's going on:
Out of curiosity, did you change any of your answers on quant? If you missed a couple of early questions (and changed the answers later), the difficulty level might have been lower throughout the exam. In extreme cases, that can cause funny-looking results like yours: the two questions you missed (after edits) might not have been terribly difficult, and that can hurt your score disproportionately.
Moving forward... well, the good news is that 655 is already pretty close to the median at even the most elite programs, so you're not in terrible shape. The most obvious piece of low-hanging fruit: on quant, you spent 17 of your 45 minutes on just three questions, and that's not usually ideal. Maybe that includes some time spent reviewing them at the end of the section?
But even if that's the case, I wonder if you're misallocating your time in general: if you're making ANY careless mistakes AT ALL -- even if you correct them at the end of the section -- you're playing with fire. If you're racing through some questions (and spending too much time on others), that can fuel those careless mistakes. And it doesn't take very many of those to knock your score down quite a bit. If you think you're capable of a near-perfect quant score, then you can't afford any careless mistakes, given the way the scoring works. Maybe it's worth spending a little bit of extra time to make sure that you're being systematic so that you don't make those sloppy errors.
To be clear: I'm guessing a bit here. I obviously don't know exactly which questions you're answering incorrectly, or how good you really are at quant. But your post makes me suspect that you're being undermined by some shaky test-taking habits, especially with those bloated times on a few quant questions.
I hope that helps a bit, and keep us posted on your progress, please!
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Hi Charles, big fan and thank you for taking the time to write this, this is really helpful.
Out of curiosity, did you change any of your answers on quant?
Funny you should ask, this is what my review and edit section looked like.
I have a feeling this is the reason why my score tanked, where i had 7 mins to review questions (i finished quite early as the second half was a lot easier than the first half. Q9 and Q5, i knew i was going to come back and later and correct it. I had one more edit with 3 minutes to go, so i started randomly going through questions to see if any needed a potential edit, through which i caught Q2. You mention the review feature possibly being a culprit in the video you shared above as well.
Moving forward... well, the good news is that 655 is already pretty close to the median at even the most elite programs, so you're not in terrible shape.
The programs im targeting have a median of ~685 unfort, so this does not cut it. I would be retaking of course, but it does sting quite a bit knowing that if i just got those 2 quant questions right, i would have got a 715 with a 100th %ile quant, but oh well so is life.
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