OK, I just took a GMATPrep practice today. Very disapointed - ended up with 32V and 38 Q. HOWEVER, this deviated greatly from my MGMAT score of 680. Even when taking into account standard deviations for the two algorithims, this decrease seems greatly unwarranted.
Another thing that's weird is that I answered less questions incorrectly this time around (-14 on both, as opposed to -14 and -17). What's stranger is that while my raw score was better on Verbal this time around, my percentile dropped from 38 V to 32 V! As for Quant, number stayed the same, but it dropped from 44Q to 38Q.
Here's the thing: I got ahead in both sections so fast that I ended up taking a massive amount of time/problem by the middle of either section. For instance, there was a RC passage about 40 minutes in, during which I took a 4-5 minute bathroom break since I was making such good time. On both sections, I was easily spending in excess of 3 minutes/problem during the latter halves of each. I admit that it was kind of lazy of me, but I was intentionally taking more time per question to see how much I could get away with, so to speak.
So my question is: do you think that the poor pacing/timing can really account for such a huge drop, when taking into account the fact that I got more questions correct on each section? Is it better to be even paced and finish either section, say, 10-20 minutes before as opposed to taking more time overall for each section and thus taking more time/question ?
And for the record, I got the same amount of "first ten" questions right in GMATPrep Quant as on the MGMAT, and about one less on the GMATPrep than on the Verbal counterpart this time around.
Another thing that's weird is that I answered less questions incorrectly this time around (-14 on both, as opposed to -14 and -17). What's stranger is that while my raw score was better on Verbal this time around, my percentile dropped from 38 V to 32 V! As for Quant, number stayed the same, but it dropped from 44Q to 38Q.
Here's the thing: I got ahead in both sections so fast that I ended up taking a massive amount of time/problem by the middle of either section. For instance, there was a RC passage about 40 minutes in, during which I took a 4-5 minute bathroom break since I was making such good time. On both sections, I was easily spending in excess of 3 minutes/problem during the latter halves of each. I admit that it was kind of lazy of me, but I was intentionally taking more time per question to see how much I could get away with, so to speak.
So my question is: do you think that the poor pacing/timing can really account for such a huge drop, when taking into account the fact that I got more questions correct on each section? Is it better to be even paced and finish either section, say, 10-20 minutes before as opposed to taking more time overall for each section and thus taking more time/question ?
And for the record, I got the same amount of "first ten" questions right in GMATPrep Quant as on the MGMAT, and about one less on the GMATPrep than on the Verbal counterpart this time around.
