Had 28 correct answers in Powerprep but scored me 154.

[kar.ar.424]

Hello, I have a couple of questions about the math section on the GRE. I took this morning a practice test, in the POWERPREPII software and had 28 correct answers in the math section, and as I have read in the official guide every question is weighted the same (1 point), but the scored I got was 154 in this section. Also in the Verbal section I had 23 corrrect answers, which should score a 153, but I got a 152. Why did this happened? are these scores given by POWERPREPII right?, or I should have scored 158 and 153 (311) as I thought?

Another doubt I have is about the on-screen calculator, It has the decimal point moved, some times one digit, sometimes two digits, 1/2 should equal 0.5 and it gives a 5 for example.

Lastly, in a numeric entry question, I was asked to determine a average, which was 36.52, exactly what I entered; it was incorrect, and when I checked the correct answer they had 36.5, but nothing was speficied about the amount of deciaml digits in the question. I can know this without any specification from the question?

Thanks in advance.

[tommywallach]

Hey Karar,

1) The scoring is much more complicated than "each question removes one point," so don't worry about that. Trust that the scoring algorithm did the work it was supposed to do.

2) I've never heard anyone seeing the calculator make an error, but maybe there's something going wrong over there. You should tell them!

3) I really doubt this one. Can you provide a screenshot of the question?

-t