GMAT Club Tests - Adaptive?

Question

Hello all,

Does anyone know if the Mocks on GMAT Club are adaptive?

I've given one and didn't feel at all that they're adaptive.

If anyone knows for sure, would appreciate their response.

Thanks.

Yogananda · Answer

Hey, yes the tests are adaptive. Follow this link : https://gmatclub.com/forum/adaptive-gma ... l#p1092766

anirudhmittal23 · Answer

Thanks for your response.

I didn't feel that way though, because multiple times:

I got a 500 level question wrong and next got a 700 level.

700 right, next got 500.

Also, in quant felt that the first 6 questions were tougher than rest of the whole exam.

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ostrick5465 · Answer

I have the same feeling to you. I tried GMAT Club Test in the open day. We should wait for an official answer from the admin team.

bb · Answer

Yes, the tests are adaptive. However, keep in mind that it does not mean that every question will always be the perfect level of your performance. 
1. There are experimental questions that do not match your performance level. They are also there to throw you off
2. There are possible variations in difficulty if insufficient number of questions are available. e.g. if you need a probability question and your performance is really bad, we don't have easy probability questions so you will get one that is above your level.

aashigarg · Answer

Hi,

Fact 1 : 
I gave two CAT's on 15 August 2020 and got Q47 on one and Q37 on another. I noticed that I got many questions from Stats, P & C , Probability and Geometry in the CAT in which I scored which also happened to be my weaker areas.

Fact 2:
I scored Q 48 in GMAC Mock 1.

Thus from these facts I drew the following inferences:- 
a) I should work on the weaker areas to maintain consistency in my score
b) I can expect Q48+ in most of my mocks.

Is my assessment right? If not, what am I missing and how can I improve it using GMAT CLUB?

Thanks in Advance!

bb · Answer

Your test scores will jump around depending on the topics tested and difficulty of the questions that test those topics. 
E.g. some people have said they got quite a few geometry questions on the real test and they were weak in geometry where someone else may not get many of those. If you have gaps and holes, that's one element that will make your score vary quite a bit depending on the topics.

As to Q48, I hope you get that score.... but keep in mind that official GMAT has Arithemetic, Word Problems and Geometry as the bulk of its questions. Probability, Stats, and Combinations are more rare and reserved for higher scores but they do show up. You do want to know how to solve a basic Probability question (nothing fancy) but you definitely do not want to have any weak spots in geometry, arithmetic, or word problems.

Good Luck!

aashigarg · Answer

Thank you so much BB!

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