Confused with my verbal scores

[Paul]

I am a little puzzled by my verbal score.
I recently took two practice CATs: MGMAT CAT and PowerPrep.

On MGMAT CAT I got 14 Incorrect and got a score of 42.
On the PowerPrep I got 15 Incorrect and got a score of 28.

I understand the whole thing about getting the tough questions right and all
but it still seems odd to me why there is such a big difference between the Verbal Scores when
the number of questions missed is virtually the same.

Could someone from MGMAT staff explain.

thanks

[StaceyKoprince]

Everybody pretty much gets around 60% of the questions right and around 40% of the questions wrong regardless of score (except at the very high and low score levels). I'm guessing that you may still be thinking something along the lines of - difficulty level is a factor, sure, but percentage correct is still the major indicator. It's not. Difficulty level is the major indicator. Percentage correct only becomes an indicator artificially, at very high and very low levels. Otherwise, you pretty much get a decent number of questions wrong regardless.

The major explanation for this: the difficulty level of the questions you're answering is very different for a 28 vs a 42.