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The Myth of the First 10 GMAT Questions
Overinvesting time in answering the first 10 questions in the Quant and Verbal sections will not give you an advantage on the GMAT and is actually likely to sabotage your score. Thus, it is essential that you have a solid GMAT pacing strategy in place, one that allows you to balance your time appropriately so that you are not rushing to complete a section or guessing on many questions because you’re almost out of time.Of course, a key move in any GMAT strategy is to seek to consistently answer medium- and easy-level questions correctly, whether such questions appear among the first 10 or later in a section.
So, yes, every test-taker should be careful when answering the first 10 questions of a section, but that doesn’t mean you can hack your way to a high GMAT score by overinvesting time in those questions.
09 Mar 2022, 19:00
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Yes, it seems to me that this whole myth was a big correlation/causation confusion. People who get high scores tend to get many of the first ten questions correct... But that's because they're someone capable of getting a high score.
Yes, missing an easier/medium question early might put you in a place where you have to convince the test 'no no, that was a dumb mistake, I can get those,' but it's recoverable. Now if you do it twice? Okay... Three times? On easy/medium questions? The problem isn't that you missed three questions in the first ten questions, it's that you're not consistent at easy/medium questions.
Yes, missing an easier/medium question early might put you in a place where you have to convince the test 'no no, that was a dumb mistake, I can get those,' but it's recoverable. Now if you do it twice? Okay... Three times? On easy/medium questions? The problem isn't that you missed three questions in the first ten questions, it's that you're not consistent at easy/medium questions.
09 Mar 2022, 21:38
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Good point about correlation/causation.
There is a strong correlation based on our research and scenario simulations with GMAT Prep: https://gmatclub.com/forum/new-format-g ... 69682.html
There is a strong correlation based on our research and scenario simulations with GMAT Prep: https://gmatclub.com/forum/new-format-g ... 69682.html
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Yes, it seems to me that this whole myth was a big correlation/causation confusion. People who get high scores tend to get many of the first ten questions correct... But that's because they're someone capable of getting a high score.
Yes, missing an easier/medium question early might put you in a place where you have to convince the test 'no no, that was a dumb mistake, I can get those,' but it's recoverable. Now if you do it twice? Okay... Three times? On easy/medium questions? The problem isn't that you missed three questions in the first ten questions, it's that you're not consistent at easy/medium questions.
Yes, missing an easier/medium question early might put you in a place where you have to convince the test 'no no, that was a dumb mistake, I can get those,' but it's recoverable. Now if you do it twice? Okay... Three times? On easy/medium questions? The problem isn't that you missed three questions in the first ten questions, it's that you're not consistent at easy/medium questions.
