GMAT result experience - 20 Nov 2024

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Gave GMAT this week - seems like making 1st question incorrect totally change your score irrespective rest of the performance during the section - 2 incorrect - 19 correct - Makes it to just Q79 - 2 incorrect - 19 correct - Makes it to just Q79 - 57th percentile

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Sarthak1012 · Answer

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VIJAYCS · Answer

very strange to see why it considered so less for only 2 questions incorrect.

AjiteshArun · Answer

Q79 with only 2 mistakes is just painful. If bb adds this to the  horrible score report directory , we'll have a new low for quant.

Fullridedreams · Answer

That is brutal. I did a practice exam from MBA.com with 10 wrong including the first one and got Q79. You should petition the score if possible.

cric_fan · Answer

When it comes to Quant according to the current algo one CANNOT make MISTAKES in the INITIAL (7-8) QUESTIONS. It just pulls you down massively.

It’s most probably getting the 1st question wrong which sealed the test takers fate.

Brutal and unfair to say the least but a harsh reality.

bb · Answer

You have an amazing Quant score but do you have any examples of this theory? about mistakes in the beginning? 
I have been testing various scenarios in GMAT Prep but have not spotted patterns...

bb · Answer

I am really sorry about the score and experience 😭 Added you to the "hall of fame" that nobody wants to join: https://gmatclub.com/forum/horrible-gma ... l#p3446979

cric_fan · Answer

One thing I can confirm is that I have taken the focus edition thrice, and I only got questions wrong towards the end (the last five questions). https://gmatclub.com/forum/download/file.php?id=83172 https://gmatclub.com/forum/download/file.php?id=83173 1st one was a Q87 and 2nd one was a Q90 (yes I got that Q90 with an incorrect response) However, my wife has got Q81 with 4 wrong questions and she had 1 of those in her first initial questions (though not in the first 2-3) https://gmatclub.com/forum/download/file.php?id=83174 The mistake in the first seven questions again brought her score down quite a bit, even though she did quite well in the rest. One thing is clear (based on above data and what I have seen other test takers also post) - the position of the wrong questions in the test matters a lot rather than how many are wrong. Of course, it also depends on the section-wise adaptiveness (if your earlier sections went off well you are likely to start off with a hard question which reduces the impact of a wrong one), but I think it's a very safe assumption that making a mistake in the first few questions brings it down pretty brutally in most cases. That being said, 79, in this case, is super-brutal. Maybe the first question thrown to the test-taker was super easy, hence the super-high penalisation. GMAT-Club-Forum-p1o0eoar.png GMAT-Club-Forum-6gthmvuf.png GMAT-Club-Forum-dmqycc3e.png

Krishsharan1998 · Answer

I also took the exam on 20th November 2024. My section order was Q, DI and, V. I also ended with the same Q79 but with 3 incorrect(1, 3 & 21). I feel devasted by seeing my score since I scored (515) 100 points lower than my lowest score on my official mock(615).

The question order in Verbal was a nightmare for me. From the 1st to 6th questions, I got CR, and from the 7th to 18th questions, I got 3 different RC passages continuously. 19 and 20 the questions were CR and again from 21 to 23, I got an RC passage.

In DI also the algorithm gave a similar experience. The first 5 questions from DS, the next 6 questions from MSR, the next 3 questions from TPA and the last 4 from the table and graphical analysis.

I haven't had these kinds of question orders in any of my 6 official mocks. I felt like the algorithm made the day (20 November) miserable.

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Ayeka · Answer

That’s strange, i did mocks from MBA.com and i always got above Q80 with 3-4-5 wrong.

bb · Answer

You are correct in your observation. I have never been able to reproduce this with GMAT prep either but I have taken a lot of tests...

Dbrunik · Answer

similar thing happened to me. i only got one question wrong and i got a Q84.

wondering if i had gotten that last question right if i would have got Q90, or if it would have somehow changed the difficulty of subsequent questions....

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