Guess or skip - on the GMAT?

I think whoever wrote that article either did not fully understand how the GMAT works or maybe missed something in translation.... because what is a quarter of a point? Is that the scaled point? In any case, since the test is adaptive, it cannot work that way as Marty pointed it out. My guess this was an outsourced article....

It seems that some of that logic may have been borrowed from here without properly being applied to the GMAT framework:
https://www.webassign.net/manual/instru ... stions.htm

Thank you for sharing this. I would not worry too much about it. It seems a pretty strange article to start with. You can't even skip questions on the GMAT. 🤷‍♂️

P.S. It is really a confusing piece now that I think about it.... and damaging too!

So now I am extremely confused? What's better, guess and mark or skip when run out of time?

If you want to move to the next question on the GMAT, you have to choose an answer choice. There is no "skip" option.

Hi Rochix123,

That part of the article ("formula scoring") is about (many) standardised tests other than the computer adaptive GMAT. In other words, they were not discussing the current GMAT in that part of the article. That's why they go on to say this:

AjiteshArun is spot-on here. The article is as clear as mud, unfortunately. There's no such thing as "formula scoring" on a computer adaptive test, and the article was written badly, so it's not obvious that they mentioned that type of scoring solely for the purpose of contrasting it with the actual GMAT scoring system.

Honestly, I would completely ignore this particular piece of silliness on the mba.com website. Sorry that it wasted a bit of your time and energy, Rochix123!