GMAT Prep practice test results evalution

[Gavan]

Hi all,
I got 700 (48Q, 36V) in GMAT Prep (older version) practice test today and the number of errors were 13Q & 9V.
I’m confused by this score because Q score is higher even though mistakes are more. Please help me understand this result. Is GMAT Perp software is computer adaptive i.e I got harder question in quant or this is just a pattern.
Thanks,

[jnelson0612]

Gavan,
Check out this chart: http://www.mba.com/the-gmat/gmat-scores ... means.aspx Those are your raw scores, which are translated to percentiles. You actually did equally well in both math and verbal.
Based on this chart your percentiles were about 80 for both math and verbal.

My guess is that the math questions you missed were rated a little more highly than were the verbal problems you missed. Missing a highly rated problem does not hurt your score as much, because the GMAT does not expect many people to get them right. There may have been a slight effect too on where in the test you missed the questions; there is a slightly larger adjustment of your score earlier in the test.

Anyway, you are doing very well--congratulations!!!

[Gavan]

Thanks for your guidance Jnelson!

Unfortunately I got few known questions in verbal that boosted the score. Anyways I have to do loads of practice.

I’ll ask many more questions in coming days. :)

Thanks again, MGMAT forum is great help.
Gavan

[StaceyKoprince]

good luck!