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Gave GMAT this week - seems like making 1st question incorrect totally change your score irrespective rest of the performance during the section - 2 incorrect - 19 correct - Makes it to just Q79 - 2 incorrect - 19 correct - Makes it to just Q79 - 57th percentile
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very strange to see why it considered so less for only 2 questions incorrect.
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GMAT Focus 1: 715 Q83 V90 DI83 
GMAT 1: 780 Q50 V51
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Sarthak1012
Q79 with only 2 mistakes is just painful. If bb adds this to the horrible score report directory, we'll have a new low for quant.
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That is brutal. I did a practice exam from MBA.com with 10 wrong including the first one and got Q79. You should petition the score if possible.
When it comes to Quant according to the current algo one CANNOT make MISTAKES in the INITIAL (7-8) QUESTIONS. It just pulls you down massively.
It’s most probably getting the 1st question wrong which sealed the test takers fate.
Brutal and unfair to say the least but a harsh reality.
It’s most probably getting the 1st question wrong which sealed the test takers fate.
Brutal and unfair to say the least but a harsh reality.
You have an amazing Quant score but do you have any examples of this theory? about mistakes in the beginning?
I have been testing various scenarios in GMAT Prep but have not spotted patterns...
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I have been testing various scenarios in GMAT Prep but have not spotted patterns...
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I am really sorry about the score and experience 😭
Added you to the "hall of fame" that nobody wants to join:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/horrible-gma ... l#p3446979
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bb
One thing I can confirm is that I have taken the focus edition thrice, and I only got questions wrong towards the end (the last five questions).
1st one was a Q87 and 2nd one was a Q90 (yes I got that Q90 with an incorrect response)
However, my wife has got Q81 with 4 wrong questions and she had 1 of those in her first initial questions (though not in the first 2-3)
The mistake in the first seven questions again brought her score down quite a bit, even though she did quite well in the rest.
One thing is clear (based on above data and what I have seen other test takers also post) - the position of the wrong questions in the test matters a lot rather than how many are wrong.
Of course, it also depends on the section-wise adaptiveness (if your earlier sections went off well you are likely to start off with a hard question which reduces the impact of a wrong one), but I think it's a very safe assumption that making a mistake in the first few questions brings it down pretty brutally in most cases.
That being said, 79, in this case, is super-brutal. Maybe the first question thrown to the test-taker was super easy, hence the super-high penalisation.
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I also took the exam on 20th November 2024. My section order was Q, DI and, V. I also ended with the same Q79 but with 3 incorrect(1, 3 & 21). I feel devasted by seeing my score since I scored (515) 100 points lower than my lowest score on my official mock(615).
The question order in Verbal was a nightmare for me. From the 1st to 6th questions, I got CR, and from the 7th to 18th questions, I got 3 different RC passages continuously. 19 and 20 the questions were CR and again from 21 to 23, I got an RC passage.
In DI also the algorithm gave a similar experience. The first 5 questions from DS, the next 6 questions from MSR, the next 3 questions from TPA and the last 4 from the table and graphical analysis.
I haven't had these kinds of question orders in any of my 6 official mocks. I felt like the algorithm made the day (20 November) miserable.
bb
The question order in Verbal was a nightmare for me. From the 1st to 6th questions, I got CR, and from the 7th to 18th questions, I got 3 different RC passages continuously. 19 and 20 the questions were CR and again from 21 to 23, I got an RC passage.
In DI also the algorithm gave a similar experience. The first 5 questions from DS, the next 6 questions from MSR, the next 3 questions from TPA and the last 4 from the table and graphical analysis.
I haven't had these kinds of question orders in any of my 6 official mocks. I felt like the algorithm made the day (20 November) miserable.
bb
That’s strange, i did mocks from MBA.com and i always got above Q80 with 3-4-5 wrong.
Ayeka
You are correct in your observation. I have never been able to reproduce this with GMAT prep either but I have taken a lot of tests...
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similar thing happened to me. i only got one question wrong and i got a Q84.
wondering if i had gotten that last question right if i would have got Q90, or if it would have somehow changed the difficulty of subsequent questions....
wondering if i had gotten that last question right if i would have got Q90, or if it would have somehow changed the difficulty of subsequent questions....
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