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Is it possible to score 47 in the real gmat with 14 mistakes in the quantitative part?

The verbal was more reasonable 7 mistakes gave a score of 42.

Overall = 730

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by beatthegmat » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:26 pm

The GMAT scoring algorithm is somewhat of a blackbox. No one really knows how it works with certainty, except for GMAC.

All I can say is that I've seen other people in this community report similar 'hit rates' and still score well.

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by Stacey Koprince » Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:54 pm

yes, almost everyone gets about 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. Once you get above 700 or below 300, it starts to skew a bit - but it is still the case that you will get a lot of questions wrong. The algorithm is NOT "percentage correct"-based (the way paper tests are scored). Even if you score a perfect 800 - you're getting questions wrong on the test.

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