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gmat prep confusion

by sogmat » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:54 am
just took the gmat prep test and scored 680 but i got like 16 wrong in quant and 13 wrong in verbal - my quant score was 47 and verbal 35

in my last test i got fewer incorrect and ended up with only 610, can some one please resolve this paradox
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Re: gmat prep confusion

by jdkster » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:23 am
Your score depends not only on the number of problems you got wrong but also on their difficulty level. The other day I scored Q50 with like 11 mistakes. GMAT penalizes you worse for mistakes in easy problems than in the hard ones
sogmat wrote:just took the gmat prep test and scored 680 but i got like 16 wrong in quant and 13 wrong in verbal - my quant score was 47 and verbal 35

in my last test i got fewer incorrect and ended up with only 610, can some one please resolve this paradox