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19 Mar 2017, 11:59
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Hi all,
Sorry that this probably been asked before, but say hypothetically you are crushing RC, doing ok at CR and doing poorly at SC, would your RCs start getting really hard, and your SC questions stay really easy? Or would you all your questions stay relatively around the same difficultly level since you are doing well in one area, but poorly in another?
thanks.
Sorry that this probably been asked before, but say hypothetically you are crushing RC, doing ok at CR and doing poorly at SC, would your RCs start getting really hard, and your SC questions stay really easy? Or would you all your questions stay relatively around the same difficultly level since you are doing well in one area, but poorly in another?
thanks.
19 Mar 2017, 23:00
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Hi all,
Sorry that this probably been asked before, but say hypothetically you are crushing RC, doing ok at CR and doing poorly at SC, would your RCs start getting really hard, and your SC questions stay really easy? Or would you all your questions stay relatively around the same difficultly level since you are doing well in one area, but poorly in another?
thanks.
The difficulty is not decided by question type. It's decided by how you've been doing in your test till that point. Sorry that this probably been asked before, but say hypothetically you are crushing RC, doing ok at CR and doing poorly at SC, would your RCs start getting really hard, and your SC questions stay really easy? Or would you all your questions stay relatively around the same difficultly level since you are doing well in one area, but poorly in another?
thanks.
20 Mar 2017, 03:32
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As far as I have seen from a couple of ESR - what maters is average difficulty. All that we are sure of - the first set of question is of "average medium level".
Now coming into sectional part, I have attached two Verbal ESR for you review. Additionally, you can review my detailed ESR here : https://gmatclub.com/forum/need-a-score ... l#p1823121 and post any suggestions on the same.
100% accuracy in the first set: 
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60% accuracy in the first set: 
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As per the second ESR, even if you have 100% accuracy in RC, with 50% in SC and CR - then the level in the next set of questions will still be medium and not medium high. Moreover, in GMAT question pack-1, even with 100% accuracy in a set of RC questions, at all levels, the "level of difficulty" stick somewhat around "2" or "high 2". From this we can infer that the level of RC question is not much a deciding factor or RC is not as adaptive as opposed to CR and SC.
To sum up, the overall score is dependent on the average performance in each section. So, as mentioned above, the question presented is dependent on the accuracy and the average difficulty of the preceding set of questions.
Now coming into sectional part, I have attached two Verbal ESR for you review. Additionally, you can review my detailed ESR here : https://gmatclub.com/forum/need-a-score ... l#p1823121 and post any suggestions on the same.
100% accuracy in the first set:
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Verbal_2.PNG [ 21.75 KiB | Viewed 767 times ]
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Verbal_1.PNG [ 31.57 KiB | Viewed 772 times ]
brandon7
Hi all,
say hypothetically you are crushing RC, doing ok at CR and doing poorly at SC, would your RCs start getting really hard, and your SC questions stay really easy? Or would you all your questions stay relatively around the same difficultly level since you are doing well in one area, but poorly in another?
thanks.
say hypothetically you are crushing RC, doing ok at CR and doing poorly at SC, would your RCs start getting really hard, and your SC questions stay really easy? Or would you all your questions stay relatively around the same difficultly level since you are doing well in one area, but poorly in another?
thanks.
As per the second ESR, even if you have 100% accuracy in RC, with 50% in SC and CR - then the level in the next set of questions will still be medium and not medium high. Moreover, in GMAT question pack-1, even with 100% accuracy in a set of RC questions, at all levels, the "level of difficulty" stick somewhat around "2" or "high 2". From this we can infer that the level of RC question is not much a deciding factor or RC is not as adaptive as opposed to CR and SC.
To sum up, the overall score is dependent on the average performance in each section. So, as mentioned above, the question presented is dependent on the accuracy and the average difficulty of the preceding set of questions.
