Usual equalant score of manhattan gmat tests..

[prithviraj.dasari]

Hi,
I am curious to know what is equalant score of manhattan gmat test score. There could be some exceptions, such as exam tension, luck factor.However, I would like to know the equalant score range.

What could be average score we should maintain to reach magical figure of 720 or 700+ ??

Thank you,
Prithvi.

[prithviraj.dasari]

please some body ans to this query...

[StaceyKoprince]

Please don't respond to your own question unless you have new information to add; the questions are answered in order from oldest first (based on the date of the most recent post in a given thread), so replying to your own post changes the date to a later date, and you wait longer for a reply.

We have asked our students to tell us their official test scores and then we have run some analyses based upon that data compared to the students' results on our own tests.

The standard deviation between a student's final MGMAT test and that student's official test is approximately 50 points. That is, most students score within +/- 50 points of their last MGMAT practice test when they take the real test.

There are certain ways to increase the likelihood that you will score at (or above) your last MGMAT practice test score (rather than below):
- take your practice tests under 100% official conditions, including essays, length of breaks, etc.
- take your final practice test 5 to 10 days before the real test (if you take your final test a month before and don't study after that, then your real test score is likely to drop, obviously!)
- make sure you don't have any serious timing problems (too fast or too slow); serious timing problems can result in a big score drop on a "bad" day

As you said, obviously, there are some factors for which we can't plan. You know that the practice tests are practice and you know that the real test is real. Some people who get extra nervous when taking tests might always experience a score drop on the real test as a result.

[prithviraj.dasari]

Thank you for detailed response.I have another question , not related to above.Though anything is not guaranteed, depending on your knowledge can you just answer the following -
Do we have maths and verbal cutoffs in exam for real GMAT score ?
For example,
According to my analysis total score of >=85 is required to touch 700.
Can we achieve this with following scores
Q51,V34
Q50,V35
Q49,V36
In the same manner,not only to reach 700 but also to score above that such as >=720, would it be ok to maintain accumulative scores? or should we need to maintain individual percentiles also?

-Prithvi.

[StaceyKoprince]

The algorithm is not quite that simple - it isn't just a simple addition of the two sub-scores that determines your overall score.

Also, some schools do look at the individual sub-scores. The top 5 schools in particular prefer students who show relatively balanced scores, rather than one very high score and another somewhat-lower score. Some of the schools even use what they call the "80/80" preference: that is, they want the student to have scored in at least the 80th percentile in each of the two sections.

Often, the schools who use the 80/80 rule will relax it a little bit if the person has something else extraordinary on the application - perhaps 70 in one section will be enough. But only if you have something else that makes them willing to relax that preference a bit.