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Hello All,

I took Veritas mock and scored 650 (Q50, V29). I found the Verbal section quite difficult as compared with the questions in OG and the question banks on GMAT club. I have two questions:
1. Is it true that Veritas verbal is tougher than the actual GMAT?
2. How do I improve from here? For your reference, I have included the review here:

https://i.ibb.co/QdbdV7Z/score.png

GMATNinja  and  Bunuel   Please help!

HarshaBujji · Answer

Yeah  bb  I too feel the same, Can you please help with the test prep standards??

I feel the scoring algorithm is far from being perfect

bb · Answer

There are a few things that go into the algorithm including questions, difficulty, and actual algorithm. Veritas Prep actually hired a former GMAC testing guru, Larry Rudner, who developed the GMAT algorithm and later left GMAC (he was really smart and a joy to talk to; it is a pity he left or was asked to leave). In any case, he reviewed the algorithm and felt it matched the standards. Which is not a tough thing to do but the challenge is making sure your questions and grading and scoring work correctly. I feel that has been fairly well balanced too based on the reports in the forums over the past 3 or so years. Folks seemed to find their scores go in line with the actual GMAT so I don't see a lot of reasons to suspect otherwise. It is hard to rely on a "feeling" about the test and variations do happen even in the GMAT prep scores.... we used to have a GMAT Score Calculator/Estimator based on practice scores and databases but took it down when there did not seem to be much need in it. Perhaps we will resurrect it

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