Just Took GMAT Prep: Help

Hi aaronwhite1989,

If this was your first practice CAT, then you did fairly well - even with all of the unanswered questions (the average score on the Official GMAT hovers around 540-550 most years). For future reference though, every question that you do NOT physically answer is 'penalized' and that penalty is WORSE than if you had simply gotten the question wrong. This is meant to say that you really MUST make sure to answer every question when you take the Official GMAT.

Unfortunately, there's no way to tell exactly how bad your overall score was hurt by not getting to all of those questions. You left over 1/4 of the questions unanswered - and that would incur a BIG penalty on the Official GMAT.

1) How long have you studied so far?
2) What study materials have you used?
3) Did you take the FULL CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
4) What is your goal score?
5) When are you planning to take the GMAT?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Different people will have different opinion regarding the penalty of missing questions. You can try running your scenario in GMATprep software.

There are different opinions on this, but it depends on how well a test taker is doing before the last stretch. If he or she is doing very well, the algorithm is more likely to penalize him or her heavily. But if he or she is not doing well, leaving even a lot of questions at the end won't affect the final score significantly.