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This post is to discuss an experience and then trying to see if the same thing happened to anyone else.
So I went in feeling confident of skills, testing conditions etc. to modulate on pressure point patterns etc and right around the mid-point in the GMAT practice in verbal the computer decides to mark a correct answer as a wrong answer. The exact question:
As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing the bee to sustain a fatal injury.
As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing
As the heavily barbed stinger of the honeybee stays where it is inserted, with the result that the act of stinging causes
The honeybee’s stinger, heavily barbed and staying where it is inserted, results in the fact that the act of stinging causes
The heavily barbed stinger of the honeybee stays where it is inserted, and results in the act of stinging causing
The honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed and stays where it is inserted, with the result that the act of stinging causes
I was confident that between C and E it would be E
https://gmatclub.com/forum/as-the-honey ... fl=similar
The computer however decided to mark it as wrong and thereby goes my 2nd part of the verbal journey. Having given multiple tests I knew I was performing well at the 650-700+ level - the above also being 650-700 (subject/modifier/concise and grammar all being tested together).
GMAT being adaptive then started giving me 500-600 level questions suddenly - short 1 term sentences - fewer vs most; those vs that; etc being tested suddenly from hybrid SC's - only mute to say confusing me highly given I was like but I answered that question correctly so why this suddenly? This resulting in 2 out of 4 SC's wrong - obviously when one is making the correct decisions and suddenly you are said no you are not one's test flow gets disrupted.
story of Q 17-21
Now prior to this 1 SC and one CR incorrect - that too the SC is a dicey one - so the computer decided - no this person can never do all SC's correct - its some kind of revenge so after 17 needs to be beaten to death and she needs to be put in the trenches --- I am all jumbled up - how come she is not?
after 21 then suddenly the level of CR picks up (tested for particularly fine granularity rather than big picture plus assumption questions) which is fine given that I had done all correct previously. Funny thing is I knew I was doing 1 right and 1 wrong, especially because now I wanted to gain back time towards the end - yet the questions stayed at the 700 level constantly till the end eating up time for the RC which I was sure would be tough.
Now given all these games and jokes were finished computer decided to throw some very detailed oriented RC (eating up on time further), which I still had a 75% correct hit. But then that proves nothing - because suddenly the last RC - despite a 15/16 split of correct answers, thrown is a very short decently simple passage which I left because I mostly had time eaten up.
After all of this - still the computer was not satisfied - from the watch I was keeping with the watch in GMAT there was a 2 mins mismatch ...which is actually quite a lot in the world of GMAT
So you see - the computer had already predetermined that after 1/2 time there can be nothing right for this person - I mean how dare does she dream of getting a 700+? Do you even know who the hell I am, you well functioning human being with decisions made real time as you move along the test? I mean I am finding the artificial intelligence (not the real kind) of the GMAT computer quite ridiculous I have to say...
Now only mute to say that I went into Quants with a slightly not-so confident jumbled mindset, still thinking - ah! but something was wrong there, and made silly mistakes not even worth mentioning. Not only that Quants gave me question with half answers revealed - half giving me options such as
"small{fraction}/-1]p9 or
what is the approximate value of (root 2 +root 5)squared? but no answers revealed ... only if you can make sense - u get the correct answer -
again strange mentality kicks in "how she dream of getting a 700+? Do you even know who the hell I am, you well functioning human being with decisions made real time as you move along the test?" only jumbling my mindset further -
I have actually faced this now multiple time in the GMAT prep test where right around question 15-20 especially in verbal a correct answer is marked as wrong changing the whole direction thereafter. This time it was just 1 question - I have had 1 test which had 1 SC and 1 CR correct ones marked as incorrect and the score given as 590 - obviously the score should have been definitely 620 and infact more, 650+ if the direction was maintained according to my rhythm.
This time I just could not not post this for I am finding it ridiculous and losing all faith in the GMAT scoring. I know the adaptive nature will pose questions accordingly but gaming right questions as wrong and thereby deciding the path is a little too much. As is the below (see quants experience). I mean this is a well known internationally accepted test and if the practice test works like this how can I say the real one does not? 1 glitch matters tremendously.
Has anyone faced any similar experiences? What has anyone done if so?
So I went in feeling confident of skills, testing conditions etc. to modulate on pressure point patterns etc and right around the mid-point in the GMAT practice in verbal the computer decides to mark a correct answer as a wrong answer. The exact question:
As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing the bee to sustain a fatal injury.
As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing
As the heavily barbed stinger of the honeybee stays where it is inserted, with the result that the act of stinging causes
The honeybee’s stinger, heavily barbed and staying where it is inserted, results in the fact that the act of stinging causes
The heavily barbed stinger of the honeybee stays where it is inserted, and results in the act of stinging causing
The honeybee’s stinger is heavily barbed and stays where it is inserted, with the result that the act of stinging causes
I was confident that between C and E it would be E
https://gmatclub.com/forum/as-the-honey ... fl=similar
The computer however decided to mark it as wrong and thereby goes my 2nd part of the verbal journey. Having given multiple tests I knew I was performing well at the 650-700+ level - the above also being 650-700 (subject/modifier/concise and grammar all being tested together).
GMAT being adaptive then started giving me 500-600 level questions suddenly - short 1 term sentences - fewer vs most; those vs that; etc being tested suddenly from hybrid SC's - only mute to say confusing me highly given I was like but I answered that question correctly so why this suddenly? This resulting in 2 out of 4 SC's wrong - obviously when one is making the correct decisions and suddenly you are said no you are not one's test flow gets disrupted.
story of Q 17-21
Now prior to this 1 SC and one CR incorrect - that too the SC is a dicey one - so the computer decided - no this person can never do all SC's correct - its some kind of revenge so after 17 needs to be beaten to death and she needs to be put in the trenches --- I am all jumbled up - how come she is not?
after 21 then suddenly the level of CR picks up (tested for particularly fine granularity rather than big picture plus assumption questions) which is fine given that I had done all correct previously. Funny thing is I knew I was doing 1 right and 1 wrong, especially because now I wanted to gain back time towards the end - yet the questions stayed at the 700 level constantly till the end eating up time for the RC which I was sure would be tough.
Now given all these games and jokes were finished computer decided to throw some very detailed oriented RC (eating up on time further), which I still had a 75% correct hit. But then that proves nothing - because suddenly the last RC - despite a 15/16 split of correct answers, thrown is a very short decently simple passage which I left because I mostly had time eaten up.
After all of this - still the computer was not satisfied - from the watch I was keeping with the watch in GMAT there was a 2 mins mismatch ...which is actually quite a lot in the world of GMAT
So you see - the computer had already predetermined that after 1/2 time there can be nothing right for this person - I mean how dare does she dream of getting a 700+? Do you even know who the hell I am, you well functioning human being with decisions made real time as you move along the test? I mean I am finding the artificial intelligence (not the real kind) of the GMAT computer quite ridiculous I have to say...
Now only mute to say that I went into Quants with a slightly not-so confident jumbled mindset, still thinking - ah! but something was wrong there, and made silly mistakes not even worth mentioning. Not only that Quants gave me question with half answers revealed - half giving me options such as
"small{fraction}/-1]p9 or
what is the approximate value of (root 2 +root 5)squared? but no answers revealed ... only if you can make sense - u get the correct answer -
again strange mentality kicks in "how she dream of getting a 700+? Do you even know who the hell I am, you well functioning human being with decisions made real time as you move along the test?" only jumbling my mindset further -
I have actually faced this now multiple time in the GMAT prep test where right around question 15-20 especially in verbal a correct answer is marked as wrong changing the whole direction thereafter. This time it was just 1 question - I have had 1 test which had 1 SC and 1 CR correct ones marked as incorrect and the score given as 590 - obviously the score should have been definitely 620 and infact more, 650+ if the direction was maintained according to my rhythm.
This time I just could not not post this for I am finding it ridiculous and losing all faith in the GMAT scoring. I know the adaptive nature will pose questions accordingly but gaming right questions as wrong and thereby deciding the path is a little too much. As is the below (see quants experience). I mean this is a well known internationally accepted test and if the practice test works like this how can I say the real one does not? 1 glitch matters tremendously.
Has anyone faced any similar experiences? What has anyone done if so?
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