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This discussion highlights an easily understood, but often forgotten reality of the GMAT. # of questions right/wrong can be a VERY misleading figure. Two people could get the same number of questions right/wrong and wind up with two VERY different scores.mrpapiou wrote:David:
Thank you very much. Your explanation makes perfect sense.
Will certainly keep you posted with regards to my score on the real test. Need to finish my remaining 5 Veritas practice tests though.
Thanks.
Dimitris
Rajesh Jha wrote:In the past 4 mock tests on veritas I have got scores of 730,730,700,740.I have consistently got 49-48 in qa. In the last test I got 48 in qa with 11 correct(I can certainly touch 50 I believe) and a 44 in va with 8 incorrect answers. 5 were from sentence correction. Every time I get 5-6 questions incorrect in sc. This has made me kind of under confident of my verbal score in actual GMAT as I believe rc n cr can ditch u any day. I have my GMAT on 11th.Any last minute practical advise will be appreciated
It's hard to say, since the actual exam won't tell you how many questions you got wrong. The best comparison is the GMATPrep software from mba.com; if you're worried, try one of their (free) exams, and see how closely it corresponds to your VP exam. (It should be fairly close. In my experience, their questions are a little simpler, but you're penalized more for missing them.)abduabd wrote:I took the Veritas practice CAT yesterday, with minimal studying and got a 700 (Q45, V41). The breakdown was 68% correct answers in the Quant section and 63% correct answers in the Verbal.
Is this reasonable? What can I read into this as a level of my preparedness for the actual exam, which I plan to take in April?
Thanks.
I think what you can reasonably take from this is that you've got a strong foundation when it comes to the GMAT and, with little preparation, were able to get a score that many others would gladly take!! So -- good work. Now, the real question for you will be "How high do I think I could get and what will it take to get there?"abduabd wrote:I took the Veritas practice CAT yesterday, with minimal studying and got a 700 (Q45, V41). The breakdown was 68% correct answers in the Quant section and 63% correct answers in the Verbal.
Is this reasonable? What can I read into this as a level of my preparedness for the actual exam, which I plan to take in April?
Thanks.
I am following the BEATtheGMAT 60-day Study Guide and just took the first OG practice test. I scored a 610 (Q41, V34). It is much lower than my score on the Veritas practice CAT I took last weekend. While I feel like I was more prepared for this test than I was for the Veritas one-I felt way more confident as I was answering the problems- getting a lower score for my level of prep, somehow, feels more "right" to me. On the Veritas CAT, I wrote the essay and made an honest attempt at the IR section.abduabd wrote:I took the Veritas practice CAT yesterday, with minimal studying and got a 700 (Q45, V41). The breakdown was 68% correct answers in the Quant section and 63% correct answers in the Verbal.
Is this reasonable? What can I read into this as a level of my preparedness for the actual exam, which I plan to take in April?
Thanks.
abduabd wrote:I am following the BEATtheGMAT 60-day Study Guide and just took the first OG practice test. I scored a 610 (Q41, V34). It is much lower than my score on the Veritas practice CAT I took last weekend. While I feel like I was more prepared for this test than I was for the Veritas one-I felt way more confident as I was answering the problems- getting a lower score for my level of prep, somehow, feels more "right" to me. On the Veritas CAT, I wrote the essay and made an honest attempt at the IR section.
For the OG practice test 1, per the 60-day Study Guide, I skipped the essay and filled in randomly-selected responses for the IR section; I didn't even read any of the problems. This would suggest that my 610 score is actually inflated!
Over the course of the next couple of months, I will be taking practice tests from Princeton Review, Kaplan, Manhattan GMAT and The Economist. Although my level of preparation will be different each time, it will be interesting to see how my scores on each compare.
brianlange77 wrote:What was the score you got on the Veritas test? How big of a difference is a 'much lower' score?
Also, please note that essay and IR sections DO NOT factor into your 200-800 score, so they would have had no impact on a perception of an 'inflated' 610.
Best of luck!!
-Brian
abduabd wrote:I am following the BEATtheGMAT 60-day Study Guide and just took the first OG practice test. I scored a 610 (Q41, V34). It is much lower than my score on the Veritas practice CAT I took last weekend. While I feel like I was more prepared for this test than I was for the Veritas one-I felt way more confident as I was answering the problems- getting a lower score for my level of prep, somehow, feels more "right" to me. On the Veritas CAT, I wrote the essay and made an honest attempt at the IR section.
For the OG practice test 1, per the 60-day Study Guide, I skipped the essay and filled in randomly-selected responses for the IR section; I didn't even read any of the problems. This would suggest that my 610 score is actually inflated!
Over the course of the next couple of months, I will be taking practice tests from Princeton Review, Kaplan, Manhattan GMAT and The Economist. Although my level of preparation will be different each time, it will be interesting to see how my scores on each compare.
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