satacer

I am praying to break 2250

BlizzaP

cool story

owen7770210

Can you explain your use of insane and soft.

hotinpursuit

December = Hard test
January = One of the easiest tests (produced most 2400s on CC)
March = Extremely harsh curve, pretty hard Reading section imo.
May =
June =

Even though there isn't much evidence, I would conjecture that there's a pattern. Every other test seems to be hard(either curve or test itself)
So it would seem that May is going to be easy, and June hard.

xrCalico23

satacer, more generous curve only occurs because the exam itself is harder (or for some other reason such that you find the general population of test takers scoring less than the norm). It balances out.

ireland13

xrcalico23, im going to pretend i never heard that

xrCalico23

Oops. Sorry to disappoint.... :P.

shahdin

But the reading on the March was so hard. Why was the reading curve harsh? I don't get it :/

Luminouzz

^I felt that the reading was relatively easier.

BlizzaP

Reading was pretty difficult and had one of the harshest curves ever.

satacer

They might as well make it as a % score rather than percentile. Who cares. They do not even take into account the degree of difficulty. Every qn has the same point value. Then who cares about the bell curve. The whole standardized exam is a hoax. We should follow what India and China does. The bell-shaped stats has so biassed and it does not take into account for offering extra credit for hard qns.

I miss some 3s and 4s and nail most of the level 5 qns. I missed three level 4 qns and got all ;evel 5 qns in Math. Still my score is 710. It should have been like 750 considering I did answer all Level 5 qns. That is the right way to curve.

ghost1782

so what you are saying is that because you can answer a hard question, you should get more points, right? so, the converse should also be true: you should get negative points for getting the easy questions wrong? I'm not saying the -1/4 of a point, but more points added or subtracted depending on the difficulty? This system is flawed, since by rewarding for the harder level questions, and this being a multiple choice test, you could potentially guess your way through the hard ones, get many or all of the easy and intermediate ones wrong, and still get the same score as someone who got all the easy and intermediate one's right, but skipped the hard one's because of the penalty. By giving each question the same value, ETS assures that you know ALL the standards that must be learned, not just the higher level ones. And the bell curve ccorrects for people who just randomly guess on the test.

xrCalico23

Be careful what you wish for .

Thispakistanigir

The January test was SO easy but the curve was pretty harsh.

In the end, I really don't think that the curve matters. If it's a hard test you might score lower but you'll get a more lenient curve and if it's an easy test, you'll get a higher score but a harsher curve.

So in the end, doesn't it just balance out?

Practice enough and your score will go higher. The test might be hard, but sort of always get the score you deserve, ignoring all the stupid mistakes of course

fignewton

^It does balance out, exactly; that is the entire purpose of the curve on each test: a 770 on an easier test means the same as a 770 on a harder test.