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Experimental questions appear during a GMAT test. They do not count towards your overall score. If people have some ideas or are fairly sure they know how to spot them it could be interesting to share their reasoning. In general, it's probably fair to say it's not a great strategy to look for experimental questions to skip-guess on an actual exam, given the risk of getting an actual question wrong. Still, it's an interesting thing to think about given how these questions are in every Official exam.
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30 Dec 2021, 15:52
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There shouldn't be any discernable difference between experimental questions and counted questions. After all, the experimental GMAT questions are expected to be used as actual GMAT questions.
That said, since experimental questions are assigned randomly, the difficulty level of experimental questions may be quite different from the difficulty level of the other questions you're seeing on the GMAT. So, if a question you see is much easier or much harder than the other questions you're seeing when taking the GMAT, that difference in difficulty could be a sign that that question is an experimental question.
For more on experimental GMAT questions, see this post. What are Experimental Questions in the GMAT?
That said, since experimental questions are assigned randomly, the difficulty level of experimental questions may be quite different from the difficulty level of the other questions you're seeing on the GMAT. So, if a question you see is much easier or much harder than the other questions you're seeing when taking the GMAT, that difference in difficulty could be a sign that that question is an experimental question.
For more on experimental GMAT questions, see this post. What are Experimental Questions in the GMAT?
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The first few questions of any section are supposed to be of medium difficulty for everyone. So a really hard question within the first 2 or 3 questions is probably experimental.
The problem is, I'm not a good judge of how difficult a question is! And that is probably true of most test takers.
We can use a question's location in the Official Guide to get an idea of its official difficulty level. This official difficulty level often does not match how difficult I find the question, especially for SC and CR.
Sometimes I have problems with supposedly easy questions, and sometimes the hard questions at the end of the OG seem too easy.
For RC I'm a better judge of difficulty. And here is one scenario in which I would be fairly certain that the question (or rather the whole passage) was experimental: Suppose a test taker gets a long and difficult RC passage within the first 2 or 3 questions of the Verbal section, that passage, with all associated questions, is probably experimental.
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The problem is, I'm not a good judge of how difficult a question is! And that is probably true of most test takers.
We can use a question's location in the Official Guide to get an idea of its official difficulty level. This official difficulty level often does not match how difficult I find the question, especially for SC and CR.
Sometimes I have problems with supposedly easy questions, and sometimes the hard questions at the end of the OG seem too easy.
For RC I'm a better judge of difficulty. And here is one scenario in which I would be fairly certain that the question (or rather the whole passage) was experimental: Suppose a test taker gets a long and difficult RC passage within the first 2 or 3 questions of the Verbal section, that passage, with all associated questions, is probably experimental.
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