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06 Oct 2017, 09:50
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I went to take my test this morning and chose verbal as my first section.
I generally felt really prepared for the exam, but as I was working on my second RC passage a question came up referencing a highlighted text. Low and behold there was no highlighted text to be found. I immediately tried to get the attention of the attendant at the test center who then brought over the manager, this process took about 4-5 minutes and I couldn't go ahead and answer since they needed to see it but by this time my timing was all off and I decided to cancel the exam as soon as I realized I couldn't catch back up...
I feel so annoyed and aggravated, but a case has been made on my behalf by the test center attesting that there was indeed something wrong with the exam. I tried to follow up with the GMAC to reschedule the exam, I was hoping for later in the day or tomorrow but they want to do an additional "investigation" and will only be able to give me an answer on Monday. I am pretty distraught after 6 months of studying continuously that this happened - just feel so burnt out. I am taking the rest of the day off and not studying and looking ahead it looks like there are additional test dates open at the end of the month but my motivation is gone to study with the same vigor as I did up to this point.
Has a situation like this happened to anyone else? Just looking for advice on how to proceed.
I generally felt really prepared for the exam, but as I was working on my second RC passage a question came up referencing a highlighted text. Low and behold there was no highlighted text to be found. I immediately tried to get the attention of the attendant at the test center who then brought over the manager, this process took about 4-5 minutes and I couldn't go ahead and answer since they needed to see it but by this time my timing was all off and I decided to cancel the exam as soon as I realized I couldn't catch back up...
I feel so annoyed and aggravated, but a case has been made on my behalf by the test center attesting that there was indeed something wrong with the exam. I tried to follow up with the GMAC to reschedule the exam, I was hoping for later in the day or tomorrow but they want to do an additional "investigation" and will only be able to give me an answer on Monday. I am pretty distraught after 6 months of studying continuously that this happened - just feel so burnt out. I am taking the rest of the day off and not studying and looking ahead it looks like there are additional test dates open at the end of the month but my motivation is gone to study with the same vigor as I did up to this point.
Has a situation like this happened to anyone else? Just looking for advice on how to proceed.
07 Oct 2017, 15:22
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I took the GMAT today, and I'm 99.99% positive there was an error on one of the questions in the verbal section. On a reading comprehension question, I had one of the "refer to the highlighted text" questions, but there was no highlighted text in the reading comprehension passage (I don't think there is any way I could have not seen it...). This obviously made the question much harder to answer, but I also spent a disproportionate amount of time on this question and was definitely a curve ball I was not expecting. I emailed the GMAT about it, but is this something that has happened before? What do they typically do in these types of situations?
I was literally 1 point away on verbal from getting a 700 (according to the standard score grids), so even though it was only 1 question, it could have been the difference between my target score and having to cancel / retake the test.
I was literally 1 point away on verbal from getting a 700 (according to the standard score grids), so even though it was only 1 question, it could have been the difference between my target score and having to cancel / retake the test.
07 Oct 2017, 15:34
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It is possible there was a glitch. We had a user report an error in their gmat first quant question and they have contacted the GMAC about it (I was very skeptical personally) but 2 weeks later they heard back from GMAC with apology. Their test was rescored.
You can contact GMAC about this and likely get feedback from them. Possibly hitting 700 though I don’t know that you should count on that.
PS. No matter what you should not spend a disproportionate amount of time on any question. You can recover from one mistake but you can’t recover from spending 4-5 mins on a question on verbal.
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You can contact GMAC about this and likely get feedback from them. Possibly hitting 700 though I don’t know that you should count on that.
PS. No matter what you should not spend a disproportionate amount of time on any question. You can recover from one mistake but you can’t recover from spending 4-5 mins on a question on verbal.
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