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There’s no correlation between the number of correct answers and the final score on the GMAT. It’s not about how many questions you get wrong, but it’s about how many hard questions you get right. The best strategy is to answer as many questions as you can correctly as long as you follow that you’ll be fine.


PS. No, there’s no mistake in the algorithm :-)

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I agree with bb. Your GMAT score is based on not only the number of questions you answer correct/incorrect, but also the difficulty of those questions, among other things. So, if your verbal score decreased despite your getting the same number of questions correct, then you likely got a few lower-level questions wrong on your latest practice test, and thus you got a lower verbal score.

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Hey guys,

I have one week left to my GMAT, just took my 4th official practice exam and achieved a score of 610 Q38 and V35 which isn’t satisfying at all. The 2nd mock exam was the best one so far with 640 Q39 and V39 although it went much worse in my subjective experience:

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640 exam (Q39): 16 questions incorrect, 14 correct, even left one unanswered, 5 of the first 10 incorrect
610 exam (Q38): 12 questions incorrect, 19 correct, every question answered, 2 of the first 10 incorrect

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Number and deviation I got right was almost identical in both exams, still my Verbal score went down drastically.

Do you have an idea how this contradiction is explainable? I’m somewhat more troubled than before.

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Start here: https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog ... an-i-miss/

The short version is, the algorithm doesn't factor in the number you got right or wrong when it's calculating your score. People who get a high score (by getting about 60-70% of the questions right at a high level of difficulty) will often also get more right answers overall (because they had to get a decent number of questions right at the beginning to get to that difficulty level in the first place), but that isn't necessarily the case. And that doesn't mean that getting more right answers is what caused their high score!
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