I took a GMATPrep test today and have some questions. First, I studied for about ten hours a week for 3 weeks one year ago. I had to stop because work got hectic. I haven't looked at the GMAT since until this recently and just quickly read through Kaplan's Math Review and strategies.
I completely BOMBED the Quant section. I am way too rusty with my math basics and didn't remember how to do a number of problems, so my time management was poor. About a third of the way in I decide not to worry about timing and just take an extra 30 minutes to finish the section. However, I did not know the test stops you automatically when the time is up. So I only answered 28 questions and got 12 wrong for a 33 quant score.
I crushed the Verbal section. I got 35 right and 6 wrong. I had 5 minutes to spare at the end and received a 42 raw score. Five of the six questions I got wrong were Sentence Correction, so I identified my weakness. GMATPrep said my Total was 63. Does this mean a 630? I used a score calculator with my raw scores and it said 620. Is this accurate? If so, I feel pretty good. I expected my verbal to be my weakness and to really shine on the math. I'm not worried about my bombing of the quant section. I will study and get that up. My questions are did I read my total score correctly? Is the GMATPrep Verbal representative of the actual test? I don't expect to always score in the 95%, but if I'm on the upper end before studying that's a good sign. How accurate are the score calculators that you enter your two raw scores? If I score near what I did on my Verbal, say 40, and bring my math up to a 75% (46) the calculator spits out 700. This makes scoring a 700 seem much more doable to me.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
I completely BOMBED the Quant section. I am way too rusty with my math basics and didn't remember how to do a number of problems, so my time management was poor. About a third of the way in I decide not to worry about timing and just take an extra 30 minutes to finish the section. However, I did not know the test stops you automatically when the time is up. So I only answered 28 questions and got 12 wrong for a 33 quant score.
I crushed the Verbal section. I got 35 right and 6 wrong. I had 5 minutes to spare at the end and received a 42 raw score. Five of the six questions I got wrong were Sentence Correction, so I identified my weakness. GMATPrep said my Total was 63. Does this mean a 630? I used a score calculator with my raw scores and it said 620. Is this accurate? If so, I feel pretty good. I expected my verbal to be my weakness and to really shine on the math. I'm not worried about my bombing of the quant section. I will study and get that up. My questions are did I read my total score correctly? Is the GMATPrep Verbal representative of the actual test? I don't expect to always score in the 95%, but if I'm on the upper end before studying that's a good sign. How accurate are the score calculators that you enter your two raw scores? If I score near what I did on my Verbal, say 40, and bring my math up to a 75% (46) the calculator spits out 700. This makes scoring a 700 seem much more doable to me.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
