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Did you know that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free? We\u2019re not kidding! <\/i><\/b>Check out our upcoming courses here<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve written about how many GMAT questions you can miss<\/span><\/a>. But it\u2019s time to revisit it, because we\u2019ve got something that\u2019s even better than birthday presents (when you\u2019re a test prep nerd): <\/span>new data<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n A few years back, the GMAC started providing the <\/span>Enhanced Score Report<\/span><\/a>. This report gives you a ton of extra data about your performance on the GMAT\u2014you can even use it to figure out approximately how many questions you got right.*<\/span><\/p>\n For this article, I looked at 44 different Enhanced Score Reports, with scores ranging from 410 to 750. I focused on two things: the score each test taker got on each section of the GMAT, and the percent of the questions he or she got right in that section. <\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s what you need to know about the Quant section.<\/span><\/p>\n Even though several students got a 49 on Quant\u2014two points from a perfect score\u2014<\/span>nobody got more than 82% of the Quant questions right.<\/b> In fact, more than half of the test takers got<\/span> between<\/b> 55% and 70% <\/b>of the questions right. Statistically, that\u2019s where you\u2019ll probably end up on test day!<\/span><\/p>\n If you\u2019re getting about that many GMAT Quant questions right when you practice, you\u2019re probably working at a realistic level. If not, consider either challenging yourself more or backing off a bit. <\/span><\/p>\n One student who earned a 49 only got 68% of the Quant questions right. That would be a lousy grade in almost any college class\u2014but it can correspond to a nearly perfect GMAT score. Several others got even fewer questions right, and still got (excellent) Quant scores of 45 to 47. <\/span><\/p>\n The numbers don\u2019t lie! You don\u2019t have to get every Quant question right to get a strong score, or even a truly excellent score. You <\/span>will<\/span><\/i> get GMAT questions wrong! The trick is to recognize those questions, move on from them quickly, and not let them mess with your head.<\/span><\/p>\n Good test-taking strategy means you don\u2019t have to get a ton of questions right to score well. Unfortunately, poor strategy can keep you from scoring well overall, even if you really nail some hard GMAT questions. One test taker scored a 38\u2014in the 36<\/span>th<\/span> percentile\u2014despite getting 75% of the Quant questions right. The ESR doesn\u2019t include enough data to figure out exactly why this happened, but it\u2019s probably down to poor timing, careless errors, or missing lots of questions in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n This might seem like bad news, but you should actually find it heartening. Getting a lot of GMAT questions right won\u2019t get you a 700, so you can stop beating yourself up over missed problems and start focusing on the test as a whole. Taking the GMAT is about much more than just each individual problem\u2014it\u2019s a challenge for your <\/span>executive reasoning skills<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n There is <\/span>some <\/span><\/i>relationship between how many GMAT questions you get right and the score you get on the Quant section. For instance, test takers who got 55 to 65% of questions right got an average score of 39.9, while test takers who got 65 to 75% right got an average score of 46.3. <\/span><\/p>\n However, the variance within each group is <\/span>huge<\/span><\/i>. Check out this table:<\/span><\/p>\n The numbers do trend upwards, but they\u2019re also all over the place. Test takers who got virtually the same \u2018grade\u2019\u201455 to 65% correct\u2014scored anywhere from 25 to 47 on the Quant section. The number of GMAT questions you get right might be related<\/i> to your score, but it definitely doesn\u2019t determine<\/i> your score.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the situation for the Quant section of the GMAT! Everyone misses questions on the Quant section, and most of us miss a lot of GMAT questions. But that isn\u2019t a problem\u2014you can still get an excellent score with a lot of wrong answers, provided you approach the test thoughtfully. How to do that (and what the data says about Verbal) will be the topics of a couple of upcoming articles! ?<\/span><\/p>\n Want more guidance from our GMAT gurus? You can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free! We\u2019re not kidding.\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Check out our upcoming courses here<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Chelsey Cooley<\/a> Did you know that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free? We\u2019re not kidding! Check out our upcoming courses here. This isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve written about how many GMAT questions you can miss. 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1. Nobody got an A.<\/b><\/h4>\n
2. You can miss a lot of questions and still get a high Quant score. <\/b><\/h4>\n
3. You can get a lot of questions right and still get a low Quant score. <\/b><\/h4>\n
4. In fact, the number of GMAT questions you get right doesn\u2019t have that much to do with your score. <\/b><\/h4>\n
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<\/a>\u00a0is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Seattle, Washington.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/b>Chelsey always followed her heart when it came to her education. Luckily, her heart led her straight to the perfect background for GMAT and GRE teaching: she has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and history, a master\u2019s degree in linguistics, a 790 on the GMAT, and a perfect 170\/170 on the GRE.\u00a0<\/em><\/i>Check out Chelsey\u2019s upcoming GMAT prep offerings here<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"