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[color=#760780]himanshusb09[/color] To clarify, what I said about more than one subquestion applies also to Two Part Analysis, Table Analysis and Graphics Interpretation (e.g. any question that has more than one subquestion
on the same page).
In MSR (Multi Source Reasoning) you have several questions across
different pages, and each page/question has several subquestions. (so on a given page you either get all points or no points, but you can still get points on the following page if you got the previous page wrong)
MSR tends to be a trickier one to guess because of the amount of information you have to read. If you read all of it but then guess half of the questions associated with it then that may not be an optimal use either, because you dont amortize all that reading across many questions. But on the other hand guessing a whole MSR set of questions is a lot. If you do that then you should probably not guess anything else in the whole exam!
In general, for choosing which questions to guess, there are several strategies
- guess more of a a certain category you dont like or dont tend to do well on (e.g. Table Analysis, or Two Part Analysis, but typically
not MSR or DS)
- guess based on reading topics (e.g. I personally hate questions that involve archeology lol - i would guess those if i had to take it again!)
- skim read each question initially and decide within 5-10 seconds whether to guess based on whether you've seen similar questions before (or your general feeling of whether you'll be comfortable / or not with the question)
Remember this is only for a couple of questions, I would recommend to not guess more than 3 in a whole DI section, but guessing 0 is probably not an optimal timing strategy.
Hope this helps!
himanshusb09
GraemeGmatPanda
How was your timing on Data Insights? If you’re scoring much lower on DI vs the others, you may benefit from deliberately guessing a couple of the questions to give yourself more time on the other DI questions. Not everyone knows this, but in DI you have to get all the subquestions on one page right to get any points (e.g. you make one mistake out of 2 or 3 subquestions and you get 0 points for that question!). Hence appropriately managing your time is even more important than in the other sections
Hope this helps!
@graemeGmatPanda
In this kind of situations, would you suggest to:
(A) Guess the MSR and save time to solve shorter form of questions? OR
(B) Solve MSR and guess other shorter form of questions?
Why (A)? -- This saves time for shorter form of questions
Why (B)? -- Guessing MSR with sub-questions, has lesser probability that your guess would be correct. While in the shorter question forms, you have 1/4th probability. So its better to solve MSR and guess those where the probability is more.