gmatprep CAT

by **grumppee** Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:43 pm

Hi,

I was a little confused about my verbal score on the gmatprep software. I got only 10 wrong but received a quant score of only a 35? I know the exam is adaptive and the number of questions that are correct/incorrect doesn't really matter. But If I had 31 correct, isn't that pretty darn good? I was hoping that if I was getting all those questions correct, I'd be at least answering some difficult questions. Also, the incorrect choices were scattered throughout the exam, and I got the last 7 questions correct. Is the algorathim skewed? thanks in advance.

by **grumppee** Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:06 am

sorry, i meant i received a verbal score of 35, not quant.

by **StaceyKoprince** Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:16 pm

A 35 corresponds to about the 76th percentile, so that's a pretty good score. :)

I can't answer for sure because, of course, they don't release the algorithm that they use, but I do know that it gives experimental questions, just as you'll see on the real test. So it may be the case that the 10 you got wrong were ones that counted and another 10 that you got right were experimental questions. (About 10 questions per section are experimental.) They don't tell you which ones did and didn't count, of course, so there's no way to know for sure... but something like that is probably what's going on.