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While skill (content mastery, and timing skills) is by far the most important factor on the GMAT, I am starting to think LUCK is also a factor to be contended with.
On any given GMAT CAT, I am forced to guess on a handful of questions. Majority are down to 2 answer choices, others 3 and on the rare occasion a blind guess.
The other day i took a CAT and got only 1 out of the 6 educated guessed problems correct.
However, on a different CAT, which was long ago (skill was poor), I got 5/6 blind guesses right. These were difficult problems too. So this raised my score considerably.
My guess is Luck can be a huge factor, u guess on 6 problems get 5 right, man u r in good shape. But get 5 wrong, ouch...
Also another factor I want to address. Sometimes when I look at a problem I get it right away (this goes for all problems in Q and V). However, other times I allow 2min to go by and still nothing comes to mind.
I just wanna say to anyone who feels that they are scoring well below his or her abilities that maybe these factors are causing this.
There are many other factors too (anxiety, sickness, etc...), but I never see these two topics discussed and I wanted to get some input on how to capitilize on luck and avoid the second factor I discussed.
Thanks
On any given GMAT CAT, I am forced to guess on a handful of questions. Majority are down to 2 answer choices, others 3 and on the rare occasion a blind guess.
The other day i took a CAT and got only 1 out of the 6 educated guessed problems correct.
However, on a different CAT, which was long ago (skill was poor), I got 5/6 blind guesses right. These were difficult problems too. So this raised my score considerably.
My guess is Luck can be a huge factor, u guess on 6 problems get 5 right, man u r in good shape. But get 5 wrong, ouch...
Also another factor I want to address. Sometimes when I look at a problem I get it right away (this goes for all problems in Q and V). However, other times I allow 2min to go by and still nothing comes to mind.
I just wanna say to anyone who feels that they are scoring well below his or her abilities that maybe these factors are causing this.
There are many other factors too (anxiety, sickness, etc...), but I never see these two topics discussed and I wanted to get some input on how to capitilize on luck and avoid the second factor I discussed.
Thanks
