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Is it True that Manhattan & official guides are not enough for person to score 50 in quantitative and one should do gmat club math test to improve maths section result to 50 ?. I'm currently studying manhattan guides.
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Hi november22,
There is no "minimum amount" of practice material that you need to score a Q50 - that score is so high that more than 80% of Test Takers cannot score at that level (even though most of them probably want to). To score Q50+, you have to know all of the content AND the various tactics AND not make silly/little mistakes AND have reasonable pacing skills.
Maybe the books that you have will be enough, but chances are that you will need additional practice resources.
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There is no "minimum amount" of practice material that you need to score a Q50 - that score is so high that more than 80% of Test Takers cannot score at that level (even though most of them probably want to). To score Q50+, you have to know all of the content AND the various tactics AND not make silly/little mistakes AND have reasonable pacing skills.
Maybe the books that you have will be enough, but chances are that you will need additional practice resources.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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How about a score of 48 in quantitative. How many questions we need right in maths to get 48 raw score.
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There is no set number of wrong answers that will correspond to a given raw score- the algorithm also takes into account the difficulty level of questions when assessing your ability. (One test-taker could miss 10 quant questions and get a raw 48, while another could miss the same number and get a raw 45.) The best way to get a sense of where you stand is take one of the official practice tests on mba.com
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Hi november22,
The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. It takes into account a number of different factors, including the relative difficulty of the question, whether you were expected to get it correct or not, the placement of the question, what's going on "around it", the "strings" of correct and incorrect answers, whether the question even counts or not (some questions are "experimental" and are worth 0), if you leave questions unanswered and incur a penalty, etc. As such, you shouldn't be spending time trying to figure it all out. You'd be better served working on building up your skills.
A far more useful gauge would be to review each CAT that you take and determine how many questions you SHOULD have gotten correct, but didn't (due to a silly/little mistake). Those mistakes are the things that you have to fix to score at a higher level.
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The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. It takes into account a number of different factors, including the relative difficulty of the question, whether you were expected to get it correct or not, the placement of the question, what's going on "around it", the "strings" of correct and incorrect answers, whether the question even counts or not (some questions are "experimental" and are worth 0), if you leave questions unanswered and incur a penalty, etc. As such, you shouldn't be spending time trying to figure it all out. You'd be better served working on building up your skills.
A far more useful gauge would be to review each CAT that you take and determine how many questions you SHOULD have gotten correct, but didn't (due to a silly/little mistake). Those mistakes are the things that you have to fix to score at a higher level.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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I have an issue with descriptions that make GMAT scoring sound like something other than what it is - that is, descriptions that make it seem that GMAT scoring takes account of factors other than test taker ability. Most of the factors you list simply are not part of the GMAT algorithm. Question position, for example, is not used anywhere in GMAT scoring. If you took two GMATs full of identical 500-level questions, and answered ten of them incorrectly, your score would be the same whether those questions were the first ten or the last ten (or any other set of ten). Questions aren't somehow 'weighted' by where they appear in the test. It's the difficulty level of questions that matters.[email protected] wrote:
The scoring algorithm on the Official GMAT is far more complicated than most people realize. It takes into account a number of different factors, including the relative difficulty of the question, whether you were expected to get it correct or not, the placement of the question, what's going on "around it", the "strings" of correct and incorrect answers, whether the question even counts or not (some questions are "experimental" and are worth 0), if you leave questions unanswered and incur a penalty, etc.
I agree with you that test takers do not benefit from understanding how the algorithm works, just as university students don't benefit from knowing how their calculus test will be graded. GMAT scoring is based on decades of academic research into using probability theory to gauge test taker ability efficiently. There are no special 'secrets' to the algorithm, or unexpected 'factors' the algorithm takes into account, that a test taker could learn and use to 'beat the algorithm'.
That said, the test taker should know a few things, for example that adaptive tests will feel challenging no matter your level, and that the test is very forgiving of mistakes on hard questions, and unforgiving of mistakes on easy ones. As a consequence, test takers should be willing to move on quickly from difficult questions, and should answer very carefully those questions they know how to solve. And test takers should avoid guessing at randomly chosen questions, since they then risk answering an easy question incorrectly.
And to reply to the OP's question, since question difficulty is critically important, you cannot begin to guess what score you'll receive only from your number of correct answers. Test takers who score a Q48 normally have roughly the same number of right answers as test takers who score a Q31. The difference is, the Q48 test taker is able to answer harder questions than the Q31 test taker is able to answer.
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