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16 Jul 2017, 04:27
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Its of course a speculation, but I sensed it was coming. With option to select the section order, the balance shifted towards the test takers, and GMAC had to counter balance the test to ensure there aren't a slew of 700s; That will defeat the purpose of the exam. They must have changed something. For any analysis of this magnitude, we need more experiences shared to understand what's happening here? There is something out of the ordinary happening here and there is no denying it. Whether its just the new order of the exam that's playing with the psychology of test takers, or something in the exam has changed!
Again, all of this is just speculation until we have more data to analyse.
16 Jul 2017, 05:53
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I took the exam yesterday and scored 720 (Q46, V44) -- for me, the exam wasn't much different from the first time I took it (600, horribly under-prepared but that's another story). The questions were what I was expecting. Made a few silly mistakes in Quant (maybe because I needed to warm up? or maybe I just love silly mistakes?) but for the most part the exam was similar to GMATPrep.
Mocks:
GMATPrep 1: May 29th - 660
GMATPrep 2: July 4th - 710
GMATPrep 3: July 9th - 700
GMATPrep 4: July 10th - 660 (Rushed through quant, made too many mistakes. Was a friendly reminder to slow down!)
I liked the option of going Q, V, IR then AWA. I will say that by the time AWA rolled around, I was at pure exhaustion.
Mocks:
GMATPrep 1: May 29th - 660
GMATPrep 2: July 4th - 710
GMATPrep 3: July 9th - 700
GMATPrep 4: July 10th - 660 (Rushed through quant, made too many mistakes. Was a friendly reminder to slow down!)
I liked the option of going Q, V, IR then AWA. I will say that by the time AWA rolled around, I was at pure exhaustion.
16 Jul 2017, 08:50
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A drop in scores can happen (and used to happen earlier as well), but the algorithm has definitely not changed. That is, the GMAT is not using different algorithms for the different section orders. Whether something is systematically wrong with the exam is (extremely) doubtful though. You'd need a better sample to take that call, as it is very likely that people who are getting positive outcomes are just not posting in this thread.
