550 unofficial score must be wrong

snowpimpa

550-Total 49th % Quant 56th % verbal. I don’t know what went wrong! I previously took the test in October 2006 and received a 540 without much preparation at all. By the way the last time I took the test I went out drinking the night before and had a slight hangover for the test.

But since January I have totally focused on improving by score, I studied 25-30 hours per week, I took a prep course, I mastered virtually every problem in the OG 11 and supplementary verbal and quant review. I also studied and made sure I knew every stick problem in the Manhattan Series work books. I received 650+ on both gmat cats which I took about a month ago and more recently scored a 710 and 650 on the Manhattan cat.

I felt great after finishing the test, that is until I saw my score. I couldn’t believe it. There were only 5 or 6 math questions I was not sure of. And I felt much better on the verbal section than I ever had, thanks to reviewing the Manhattan Gmat sentence correction prep. I even memorized 200 idioms! So my question is can the unofficial Gmat score be wrong? Seriously, all this time and dedication does not seem to correlate to a 10 point increase. By the way made 700 flash Gmat flash cards! So what should I do now?

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snowpimpa · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject:

Not really. I did ask to have the test regraded and they informed me the grade was acurate. I am going to take it in a month and see what happens. I will probably use the og 11th and supplemental reviews again. and I will look over the manhattan gmat material again. Does anyone have any sugjestions of any good quant or setence correction material?

VirtualM · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

Hello snowmpimpa,

I had a very similar experience to yours. I studied very very hard for a month, and was getting scores of 690, 730, 700, 730 and so on in my GMATPrep and Manhattan GMAT practice tests. I was very surprised to see that my grade in the actual test was 650, and my quant was at 55%. I also had an easy time with the Math question. At first, I couldn't understand why my math was so much lower than what I got in practice tests. Up to this day, I seriously suspect that maybe the program got a glitch and just kept on throwing me easy questions. But I already asked Pearson to review my case, and they said that every exam is verified and double-checked. The only logical possibility is that I made a lot of careless mistakes. But even then, the result doesn't seem to be consistent with my practice test grades....

Either I made lots of careless mistakes, or Pearson did something to make the scoring curve steeper this year.

isisalaska · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:47 am Post subject:

wow guys, this is scary Confused

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my story is I scored 660 with a CAT adaptative Manahttan review and above 500 with the GMAt official CAT and the day of the exam I only got 490!
I am concerned about the curve getting steeper this year...

aim-wsc · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:08 am Post subject:

Very soon I'll publish an article on this issue on my blog... I have been observing the trend and the relation between GMAT Prep and actual score...

snapplesf · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject: Manhattan GMAT as an indicator

Hey guys,

I'm pretty convinved that manhattan gmat is NOT a good indicator of the real test. The best indicator is GMATPrep and I would take the GMATPrep score and then reduce it some.

I was consistently getting 710-740 scores on ManhattanGmat, but got a 610 on my real test. Going for another one this week.. lets see how that one goes.

aim-wsc · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

wow!
all the best, snapple

scoutkb · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:50 am Post subject:

Checkout this post on the MGMAT forum regarding their tests.

http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46

isisalaska · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:38 am Post subject:

...and that's why the best predictor for you real score is the GMAT official CAT prep

aim-wsc · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject:

isisalaska · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

sorry Johnny... Embarassed