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by anchit » Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:20 am
I recently started taking the mock CATs. Just a few days ago i took a Princeton Review test and scored a 610. QA: 44 and VA:30. A bad score i must say, however, whats been troubling me is that i only got 3 questions wrong in QA. I was shocked to see this. Does getting the first few questions wrong affect your score so badly. I got the 2n, 3rd and the 15th question wrong.... Please put an end to my misery here...
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by Dan@VinciaPrep » Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:53 am
anchit wrote:I recently started taking the mock CATs. Just a few days ago i took a Princeton Review test and scored a 610. QA: 44 and VA:30. A bad score i must say, however, whats been troubling me is that i only got 3 questions wrong in QA. I was shocked to see this. Does getting the first few questions wrong affect your score so badly. I got the 2n, 3rd and the 15th question wrong.... Please put an end to my misery here...
That does seem a bit harsh. On the GMATPrep tests (which are perhaps the most accurate) I usually missed around 10 questions and got around a 49. The first questions are important, but I don't think they are that much more important. Try some tests from Manhattan GMAT or GMATPrep and see how you do on them- I think it should be a little more generous.
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by anchit » Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:07 am
I took the GMATprep also, and missed around 10, that was about a month ago. I got a 49 and that is what shocked me when i found out i only got 3 wrong and only managed a 44...

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by Dan@VinciaPrep » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:04 am
anchit wrote:I took the GMATprep also, and missed around 10, that was about a month ago. I got a 49 and that is what shocked me when i found out i only got 3 wrong and only managed a 44...
Again, the GMATPrep is probably the more accurate assessment so don't worry too much.
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