Quants 31/37 are answered right
Verbal 30/41 are answered right
Still only managed to get(Q41,V30)
5-Day Free Trial
5-day free, full-access trial TTP
Available with Beat the GMAT members only code
MORE DETAILS
Got 590 in a Princeton review mock but how?
This topic has expert replies
-
ankithsaleem
- Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts
- Posts: 3
- Joined: Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:19 am
GMAT/MBA Expert
-
Brent@GMATPrepNow
- GMAT Instructor
- Posts: 16207
- Joined: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:26 pm
- Location: Vancouver, BC
- Thanked: 5254 times
- Followed by:1268 members
- GMAT Score:770
Yours is a common question.
Your scores are not based on how many questions you answer correctly; they're based on the level of difficulty of the questions you answer correctly/incorrectly.
To illustrate this, I'll share an experiment I performed.
When I was writing the article Taking the GMATPrep Practice Tests Multiple Times (https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/tak ... iple-times), I took GMATPrep Practice Test #1 four times, and each time I answered every second question correctly (I did this for the quant section only)
Given that I correctly answered exactly half of the questions each time, you'd expect my quant scores to be roughly the same for all 4 tests.
My 4 scaled scores were: 19, 23, 26 and 42
This represents a percentile range from approximately 8th percentile to the 63rd percentile.
So, don't worry about how many questions you answered correctly. It has little to do with your score.
Aside: If you're interested, we have a video explaining the GMAT scoring algorithm: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gener ... es?id=1251
Cheers,
Brent
Your scores are not based on how many questions you answer correctly; they're based on the level of difficulty of the questions you answer correctly/incorrectly.
To illustrate this, I'll share an experiment I performed.
When I was writing the article Taking the GMATPrep Practice Tests Multiple Times (https://www.gmatprepnow.com/articles/tak ... iple-times), I took GMATPrep Practice Test #1 four times, and each time I answered every second question correctly (I did this for the quant section only)
Given that I correctly answered exactly half of the questions each time, you'd expect my quant scores to be roughly the same for all 4 tests.
My 4 scaled scores were: 19, 23, 26 and 42
This represents a percentile range from approximately 8th percentile to the 63rd percentile.
So, don't worry about how many questions you answered correctly. It has little to do with your score.
Aside: If you're interested, we have a video explaining the GMAT scoring algorithm: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gener ... es?id=1251
Cheers,
Brent
Brent Hanneson - Creator of GMATPrepNow.com
-
DavidG@VeritasPrep
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 2663
- Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2015 8:25 am
- Location: Boston, MA
- Thanked: 1153 times
- Followed by:128 members
- GMAT Score:770
I'll echo Brent's point about how the algorithm takes the difficulty level of the questions you answer correctly into account. And the exam you took likely employs a different algorithm from the official test. To get the most accurate benchmark, you can take one of the free GMATPrep tests from mba.com: https://www.mba.com/us/the-gmat-exam/pre ... tware.aspxankithsaleem wrote:Quants 31/37 are answered right
Verbal 30/41 are answered right
Still only managed to get(Q41,V30)
