I misspoke when I said that question 16 was the hardest question. What I meant was that is where the exam had the highest estimation of your score. That does not mean that this was the most difficult question or even one of the top 3 most difficult, but rather this is when the computer was estimating you at your highest score. So this is when you were building in the right direction, the wave was building up and then it broke on the next few questions!Just checked your analysis with the exam.
So as per your explanation, At question 16 I was at 75%le. that means, Question 16 was of 75%le and the HARDest question faced by me in the whole exam. Fortunately, i answered this one correctly. BUT the exam review at veritas portal is not showing this question in the "list of HARD q answered correctly" by me.
Likewise it was a bit of a misstatement to say that you did not face any question over the 75th percentile. What I meant is that the computer never estimated your score as over the 75th. Of course this means that you did not get very many hard questions right. And since you answered most of the questions correctly you must not have faced many hard questions.
This is how the actual test works - it is called Item Response Theory. This test you just took is a bit of an anomaly in that the test just did not give you the hard questions. But you still had a chance to overcome that.Great Insight into the exam. Now, I know what went wrong, but it raised further doubts.
Does GMAT also work like this way? OR is it just Veritas?
To me this is the takeaway from this exam. Not the score.For RC, it is clear that I need to work out a lot more.
ALSO NEED TO SEE WHAT WENT WRONG WITH EASIER Qs