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GMAT Exam Question bank size? [#permalink] New post   03 Nov 2019, 16:52
Hi everyone.

I have searched the forum but perhaps the keywords I am using are wrong or leading me to the wrong place. So apologies in advance if this has been asked already.

I have done the official exam 5 times receiving low scores (sub 600). I recently did my exam a 6th time and also got a disappointing result. Upon reviewing my ESR I noticed some of the questions in Q were on average a lot harder. I understand there are other factors such as potentially getting some of the easier questions wrong but specifically my question is:

What is the size of the GMAT real exam question bank approximately? Is the question bank big enough to sufficiently give a range of difficulty questions based on ones actual level? I wonder given that I have taken the exams so many times with low scores that perhaps I have exhausted a large proportion of the easier questions? Could that be possible?


Thanks and any feedback would be most welcome!
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GMAT Exam Question bank size? [#permalink] New post   04 Nov 2019, 09:40
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kiwihaze111 wrote:
Hi everyone.

I have searched the forum but perhaps the keywords I am using are wrong or leading me to the wrong place. So apologies in advance if this has been asked already.

I have done the official exam 5 times receiving low scores (sub 600). I recently did my exam a 6th time and also got a disappointing result. Upon reviewing my ESR I noticed some of the questions in Q were on average a lot harder. I understand there are other factors such as potentially getting some of the easier questions wrong but specifically my question is:

What is the size of the GMAT real exam question bank approximately? Is the question bank big enough to sufficiently give a range of difficulty questions based on ones actual level? I wonder given that I have taken the exams so many times with low scores that perhaps I have exhausted a large proportion of the easier questions? Could that be possible?


Thanks and any feedback would be most welcome!


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Sorry to hear about your result.
Regarding the Gmat actual test question bank, as far as I know GMAC keeps retiring the Gmat questions and one will only face new questions whenever he/she appears for the test. The retired questions are then published in the Official guide. GMAC has a time period of 16 days within which you cannot re-appear for the test. I think that gap is maintained to avoid seeing any repeated questions.
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Re: GMAT Exam Question bank size? [#permalink] New post   04 Nov 2019, 10:34
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What is the size of the GMAT real exam question bank approximately? Is the question bank big enough to sufficiently give a range of difficulty questions based on ones actual level? I wonder given that I have taken the exams so many times with low scores that perhaps I have exhausted a large proportion of the easier questions? Could that be possible?


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GMAC or the other testing organizations will not normally reveal the size of the question bank for many good reasons.

Each standardized test has a defined margin of statistical error. To maintain this margin, the question bank has to be of corresponding size. This will normally mean that the size of the question bank will be quite large given the range of testtakers and the number of times the test is taken by each testtaker.

Since GMAC allows a testtaker to take up to eight instances of the test, it can also be assumed that the size of the question bank will be sufficiently large to accommodate these attempts. It is not realisric to believe that a testtaker has "exhausted a large proportion of the easier questions". The test would be unreliable in that case.
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Re: GMAT Exam Question bank size? [#permalink] New post   05 Nov 2019, 15:43
Thanks for that guys.

So in short, the answer is that the question bank is sufficiently large enough with a range of difficulty from easy to hard questions regardless of the number of times the candidate has taken the exam.

That is the answer I was expecting so hopefully it works out! It was just interesting to see my average difficulty substantially higher than my last exam (both correct and incorrect) which meant that my score was about the same or slightly lower.

Fingers crossed!

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