Question Regarding Verbal Scoring

[kmasonbx]

I'm curious about the scoring. My last CAT I scored 38Q, 36V, but it doesn't make sense to me. On the Quant section I got 18 out of 37 questions right with my weighted average difficult of my correct answers being roughly 584. The overall difficulty of the Quant section was roughly 618.

In the verbal section I got 24 of 41 correct, with my average right answer having a difficulty of about 708, while facing an overall difficulty of 710.

I don't understand how I scored higher on the quant when I got a higher percentage correct on verbal while facing much harder questions.

[jnelson0612]

I'm curious about the scoring. My last CAT I scored 38Q, 36V, but it doesn't make sense to me. On the Quant section I got 18 out of 37 questions right with my weighted average difficult of my correct answers being roughly 584. The overall difficulty of the Quant section was roughly 618.

In the verbal section I got 24 of 41 correct, with my average right answer having a difficulty of about 708, while facing an overall difficulty of 710.

I don't understand how I scored higher on the quant when I got a higher percentage correct on verbal while facing much harder questions.

Hi kmasonbx,
The scaled score is highly dependent on how you END the section. Look down the percentile column on the farm right (as you look at your list of questions). Do you see the verbal percentiles dropping down as the list goes on? That could explain things.

Let me also suggest that you repost your question in our General forum: general-gmat-strategy-questions-f9.html Stacey is the absolute expert at answering questions such as this and she will pick it up.

Thanks!