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20 Jul 2025, 04:05
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Hey,
I recently wrote a mock test here and got the following distribution of questions(75% hard and 25% easy to medium). Can this happen on real test? Obviously most of the questions for hard I plainly left out due to lack of time in all three sections. What I find a bit odd is that all the DI questions are labelled hard.
Are these tests even adaptive? If so, should I just leave even all medium questions and go for hard question practise?
I recently wrote a mock test here and got the following distribution of questions(75% hard and 25% easy to medium). Can this happen on real test? Obviously most of the questions for hard I plainly left out due to lack of time in all three sections. What I find a bit odd is that all the DI questions are labelled hard.
Are these tests even adaptive? If so, should I just leave even all medium questions and go for hard question practise?
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25 Jul 2025, 23:15
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Hi srik410,
Yes, GMAT Club Tests are adaptive, but not on the same level as the GMAC algorithm. On GMAT Club, if you keep answering correctly, the system tends to keep you in the hard zone for longer. On the real test, however, you might still see an easier question even after getting an 805-level one right, it’s more balanced and less linear in that sense.
I’d say the real exam doesn’t give you such a high percentage of hard questions back-to-back. Even if you’re doing well, it might average out to around 50% hard-level questions but that’s just my hypothesis. No one knows the exact GMAC algorithm or dataset, so the official mocks would be your best mirror here.
On GMAT Club, question difficulty is crowd-sourced based on how previous test-takers performed. Since Q and D sections are generally tougher here, it’s likely that more questions skew toward the hard level by default. Because the test serves questions from the same pool, this kind of distribution shouldn’t typically occur unless you were performing quite well, especially if you haven’t already used up the easy and medium-level questions. That said, really appreciate the feedback, let me take this up with the team.
As for your own prep, I’d recommend focusing on mastering easy and medium-level questions first. Unless you’re hitting over 90% accuracy at those levels, it doesn’t make sense to shift entirely to hard-level sets just yet. Treat this as a one-off experience, and build up that foundation before fully shifting gears.
Yes, GMAT Club Tests are adaptive, but not on the same level as the GMAC algorithm. On GMAT Club, if you keep answering correctly, the system tends to keep you in the hard zone for longer. On the real test, however, you might still see an easier question even after getting an 805-level one right, it’s more balanced and less linear in that sense.
I’d say the real exam doesn’t give you such a high percentage of hard questions back-to-back. Even if you’re doing well, it might average out to around 50% hard-level questions but that’s just my hypothesis. No one knows the exact GMAC algorithm or dataset, so the official mocks would be your best mirror here.
On GMAT Club, question difficulty is crowd-sourced based on how previous test-takers performed. Since Q and D sections are generally tougher here, it’s likely that more questions skew toward the hard level by default. Because the test serves questions from the same pool, this kind of distribution shouldn’t typically occur unless you were performing quite well, especially if you haven’t already used up the easy and medium-level questions. That said, really appreciate the feedback, let me take this up with the team.
As for your own prep, I’d recommend focusing on mastering easy and medium-level questions first. Unless you’re hitting over 90% accuracy at those levels, it doesn’t make sense to shift entirely to hard-level sets just yet. Treat this as a one-off experience, and build up that foundation before fully shifting gears.
26 Jul 2025, 02:23
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Thanks for the reply. What you said makes sense. Just to be sure, I wrote a mock test at MBA.com today and scored 100 percentile without a sweat in Math. In stark contrast, Math mock in the GMATClub full mock made me weep. So, I think there is a large disconnect here. One distinction I see is what defines as a hard problem. In official mocks, only 3-4 could be calculation intensive such as the large probability problems which a test taker has to compute to finish. Other hard problems(another 4-5) are just subtle non calculation intensive questions. But the mocks here maybe don't distinguish this somehow?
Other sections are fine for me. Maybe DI needed a few more mediums along with hards, but I find the original exam's DI is usually quite hard and intensive.
Finally, I think the Forum Quiz's adaptiveness maybe bleeds into the full mocks somehow? Only that could explain that full mocks start at Hard and remain so in both Quant and DI. But for Verbal they rarely go above 700.
Other sections are fine for me. Maybe DI needed a few more mediums along with hards, but I find the original exam's DI is usually quite hard and intensive.
Finally, I think the Forum Quiz's adaptiveness maybe bleeds into the full mocks somehow? Only that could explain that full mocks start at Hard and remain so in both Quant and DI. But for Verbal they rarely go above 700.
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