Impact of not finishing verbal section?

Thanks for the feedback all, but I am not sure that the views expressed here are correct.

See this feedback from GMAC:

https://www.mba.com/us/the-gmat-blog-hub ... ssing.aspx

The second bullet point at the bottom of the page notes that: "If you are on the Verbal section, it doesn’t make much difference if you guess when you have up to about 5 questions left. You should finish the item you are on to the best of your ability and not worry about the others."

Hi marshallbrm,

From a critical thinking standpoint, it's perfectly understandable that you might question information that you've been given. Here are a few more ideas that you should probably question though:

1) That article is from 2009. The GMAT has gone through several iterations in the 5+ years since that article was posted. Is it possible that those old deductions aren't quite accurate anymore?

2) GMAC has 0 INTEREST in telling you exactly how the GMAT scoring algorithm functions. If that information were to get out and spread to the masses, then the GMAT could be "gamed", the score curve would be blown and the Test results would likely become meaningless (especially at the higher levels). So why would GMAC give you these "secrets?"

3) To the point brought up in #2 (above), it's interesting that this article was posted on the site at all. Maybe this information isn't perfectly accurate. Maybe it was accurate on older versions of the Test, but now it's "off enough" to keep anyone from using it to "game" the current version of the GMAT.

4) The researchers also don't seem to describe their methodology very well. The conclusions offered are rather general too (re: "don't run out of time" isn't exactly ground-breaking advice). Again, I can't say any of this is accurate or inaccurate because they haven't shown any data, and whatever data they have is over 5 years old.

This is all meant to say that you can believe whatever you want to believe. You asked a question and you got some answers. Take from all of this what you will.

GMAT assassins arne't born, they're made,
Rich