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Only 5 wrong but score down to 42 !!!

by avssrs » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:58 pm
Hi all, would really appreciate some help here.

Just took the 2nd test on GMATPrep. Got only 5 wrong but somehow scored only 42 (see attached screenshot). Earlier questions all correct and wrong ones fairly spread out.

I'm not sure why this is so. Even if I got some difficult ones wrong, score would have too high in the beginning of test (long string of correct answers) for it to fall so low?

On the other hand, I got 12 wrong in quantitative and somehow scored 49.

Anyone?
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by 4seasoncentre » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:59 pm
A 42 is a very high score!

If I remember correctly I got 6 wrong and scored a 41. There's no way to really know how the CAT system thinks.

It should be noted that the highest verbal scores tend to be lower than the highest attainable Math scores.
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by nasa » Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:16 pm
I started reviewing my mistakes. Is there a way to look at my verbal and quant scores along with overall percentil.e
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42 in Verbal

by anishprabhu » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:06 am
I believe a 42 in Verbal is a 95 percentile which is a very good score.

a 42 in Verbal and a 49 in Quant would definitely put you in the 720-740 range.

All the best!
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4 wrongs in verbal = 45 :(

by gmat_verbal » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:40 pm
Same with me. I took GPREP2 and had 1 mistake in the first 25 questions and 2 to 4 evenly spreadout after that but still scored 45.. is this accurate ??
On the same exam, my quant had 10 wrongs and the score was 49.. I am confused ! Q49 V 45 (760).
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by kevincanspain » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:32 pm
Don't compare the quant and verbal scores but rather the percentiles they correspond to:

45 verbal has a higher percentile (98) than 50 quant (95)

The GMAT simply likes to reward verbal overachievers (top 0.2%) with a 50 or 51.
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by DanaJ » Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:40 am
A 42 might seem unfair with only 5 mistakes, but were your mistakes all of the same type? If they were all SC or all RC or all CR, then there's a good reason why your score is down!
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by FC » Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:54 am
That's a complete normal score since what matters most is the individual difficult of each question.
In one of my GMATPREP attempts I got 40 in verbal with 7 wrong answers: 1 RC, 1CR and 5SC. So it seems that I got a lot (relatively speaking) 700-level SC questions wrong, driving down my verbal score.
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