Review of GMATPrep Exam Pack 2: Two full length official GMAT tests

I wouldn't say that an incorrect easy question is more harmful than an incorrect hard question. The impact on your score has more to do with where in the test those questions appeared (early, in the middle, or late?).

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Yes, I think both the place of wrong questions and their difficulty (or ease) matter. But from my Exam 6 in EP2, I think the former is more important (especially 10 first questions)

I got a V36 with only 7 incorrect questions (3RC -> RC31, 2CR -> CR38, and 2 SC -> SC 44). In Exam 5, I still got V40 with 11 incorrect questions.

I got 1 incorrect question in the first 10 in both exams, but the noticeable difference was that the incorrect question in Exam 6 was the 1st one (a CR), while that in Exam 5 is the 6th (or 7th) one.

But again, I just do not understand how 3 RC incorrect questions led to a RC 31 even when 3 incorrect ones were not consecutive (2 in the second passage, and 1 in third passage) and when those 3 incorrect ones were not too easy.

I have had a similar observation. I had 2 incorrect RC's and my RC score went down to 34 in (Overall score was 40) I Only had 5 incorrect answers. In another exam I had one wrong RC and my RC score was 41. For more you can read here -> interesting-observations-in-gmatprep-218582.html

Currently preparing for my 5th and final attempt at the GMAT in 2 weeks. I took Exam 5 yesterday under real conditions and scored a 700 Q47/V40. I will post my full breakdown of scores and thoughts once I do my full review later.

I scored a 7 in IR, my highest score ever. I found the IR much easier than what was on my last official GMAT.

There's no way to know for sure, but I would surmise from experience that the issue is not necessarily whether the question you get wrong is easy or hard, but where on the test it appears.

First 1/3 of test = Very Important - The test makes huge adjustments in your score based on your answers.
Second 1/3 of test = Moderately Important - The test makes moderate adjustments in your score based on your answers.
Final 1/3 of test = Barely Important - Just make sure that you finish all the questions. At this point you are only fine-tuning your score, which is mostly decided already.

Getting an easy question wrong might appear to have a larger impact on your score than getting a hard question wrong, but this could be because of its location instead of its difficulty level. A hard question must be "earned" with several correct answers, but you might see an easy question after getting just one question wrong. The GMAT penalizes you severely for getting multiple questions in a row incorrect, and thus the easy question appears to be the culprit, when it has more to do with the fact that it's the 2nd question of the test and thus has a huge impact on your score.

If you get an easy question wrong early in the test, then that could take a long while to recover from, since the GMAT algorithm makes larger adjustments early in the test, thus impacting your score more. Whereas a hard question wrong later in the test, after you've already done well and thus earned yourself yet another hard question, is unlikely to make much of a dent in your score.

Conversely, if you get an easy question wrong later in the test (assuming it's not an experimental question), then it's because you're not doing well already, and this should not affect your score much.

To me, the answer seems to be that an easy question CAN be worth more points than a hard question, but not BECAUSE it's easy or hard. The real issue is QUESTION LOCATION: where the questions happen to appear chronologically.

Hi Experts / chetan2u,

I have given both the test of EP1. If I reset the test, is there any chance that I get NEW questions..??
Please suggest.

If you reset the test, then yes, you will definitely get new questions (there are 400 questions in the software but only 80 questions per test). You will likely get many repeats, but you will also get some new ones, because of the adaptive nature of the GMAT. You could help ensure that you get new questions by making note of the correct answers, and intentionally getting questions wrong (to access a slightly easier question) and intentionally getting questions right (to access a slightly harder question).

However, the essay / IR section will be exactly the same (IR is not adaptive), so I suggest just clicking through the IR answer choices to get to the Quant and Verbal, or just letting time expire if that's easier.

For more information check out this post I wrote.

Hi mcelroytutoring / dabral,

Thanks for your response.

Agreed, the question was confusing and spent around 3 minutes here because i was annoyed on how am i not able to get to the correct answer!! definitely impacted my score, was an easy fish to catch.

Hi , I recently gave the Exam Prep Pack 4 and scored a 660 . ( Q49 V 30 ) Was very surprised as I was scoring above 700 in Kaplan , How good is the Exam Prep Pack 2 Exam 5 Score ? I have my GMAT in 4 days , should I consider rescheduling my exam?

Looks like you bombed the verbal for some reason. How are your scores in other GMAT Prep official mocks? i'd say give another shot to exam 6 in next 2 days. Don't reschedule just because you scored poorly on 1 mock. However, try to identify why score score was low - maybe it was timing issue or may be you were distracted. If you feel you are not comfortable at all in Verbal and will again score poorly - you might have to give it a thought. By now, you should be able to assess where you stand.

Hello Experts,

Need your help to understand one aspect. I have taken Exam 5 and 6 of Exam pack 2 recently and on Exam 5, I scored a V37 and Exam 6 scored V30 and I did not encounter a single Bold-face question on both the tests. Then I reset the tests and retook Exam 5 and got a V46(higly inflated because ~50% were repeat questions) and still did not see a single bold-face question either.

Is it expected? How reliable are these scores?

Thanks
Madhuri

Hi,

Is it possible if my Parents in India purchase exam pack for me thru INR amount such that i can use it in U.S as i am currently residing here.

Thanks

I wasted around 15 seconds figuring this out during the test. The moment I noticed it I felt so dumb.