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20 Jul 2021, 16:10
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Okay, hear me out.
I have heard people continuously tell me that the first few questions do not matter more than the rest of the questions. But from my experimentation, I seriously consider that as false.
I have taken a total of 6 practice exams. For the sake of this discussion, I will only talk about my latest 5 (since the first one was my initialization exam and because my first one was Manhattan Prep while the last five were GMAT Prep).
For the last 5 exams I have taken, I have consistently scored a quant score of 46 or higher, EXCEPT for the very last one I took; on the last one I took, I got a quant score of 39, a complete outlier.
I put my investigation hat on and started looking into why this might be.
On my latest exam, I got a total of 9 questions wrong, three of them being the first three questions on the exam (makes me wonder, what score would I have gotten had I gotten the other 6 right).
On all my other exams (from the last 5 exams), I got at least the first three questions right (that is, got 3 or more of the first questions right before getting a wrong one).
On one of the exams, I got 8 wrong and scored a 46 but with the first three correct (8 wrong was the lowest amount of questions I got wrong on any of the exams).
So, I'm calling it, I think the first few questions do matter more, and that a little extra time should be spent on getting them right. Of course, do not take too much time on them; that might screw you over at the end as you will get many wrong in a row.
As a disclaimer, on my better performing tests, I have gotten 3 wrong in a row mid-test, so I do not think the reduction in my latest score was because I got many wrong in a row at the beginning.
Also, the claim that "getting many right in a row will do wonders for your score since you would be promoted to harder questions" is also false in my opinion. In my latest exam, I had a correct streak of 13 questions.
Anyways, I am not entirely mad, I have received consistently good scores to the point where this outlier means not very much to me. BUT, I have learned something from this experience, and ultimately, that is what matters
For reference, the questions I got wrong on my latest exam for quant are 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 25, 28, 29, 31 (you can see that at 28 I started to hit a time crunch lol; I need to work on that as well).
In my opinion, this is NOT the correct way to administer standardized exams.
ACTION ITEM: from your experience, have you experienced the same phenomenon? Am I crazy, or have you guys seen this as well?
I have heard people continuously tell me that the first few questions do not matter more than the rest of the questions. But from my experimentation, I seriously consider that as false.
I have taken a total of 6 practice exams. For the sake of this discussion, I will only talk about my latest 5 (since the first one was my initialization exam and because my first one was Manhattan Prep while the last five were GMAT Prep).
For the last 5 exams I have taken, I have consistently scored a quant score of 46 or higher, EXCEPT for the very last one I took; on the last one I took, I got a quant score of 39, a complete outlier.
I put my investigation hat on and started looking into why this might be.
On my latest exam, I got a total of 9 questions wrong, three of them being the first three questions on the exam (makes me wonder, what score would I have gotten had I gotten the other 6 right).
On all my other exams (from the last 5 exams), I got at least the first three questions right (that is, got 3 or more of the first questions right before getting a wrong one).
On one of the exams, I got 8 wrong and scored a 46 but with the first three correct (8 wrong was the lowest amount of questions I got wrong on any of the exams).
So, I'm calling it, I think the first few questions do matter more, and that a little extra time should be spent on getting them right. Of course, do not take too much time on them; that might screw you over at the end as you will get many wrong in a row.
As a disclaimer, on my better performing tests, I have gotten 3 wrong in a row mid-test, so I do not think the reduction in my latest score was because I got many wrong in a row at the beginning.
Also, the claim that "getting many right in a row will do wonders for your score since you would be promoted to harder questions" is also false in my opinion. In my latest exam, I had a correct streak of 13 questions.
Anyways, I am not entirely mad, I have received consistently good scores to the point where this outlier means not very much to me. BUT, I have learned something from this experience, and ultimately, that is what matters
For reference, the questions I got wrong on my latest exam for quant are 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 25, 28, 29, 31 (you can see that at 28 I started to hit a time crunch lol; I need to work on that as well).
In my opinion, this is NOT the correct way to administer standardized exams.
ACTION ITEM: from your experience, have you experienced the same phenomenon? Am I crazy, or have you guys seen this as well?
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21 Jul 2021, 01:41
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When you get a bunch of Qs wrong initially, you start seeing easier Qs and your score is lowered as well. So, obviously, that's the case. The key is to not sequentially answer wrong in the initial Qs, that makes score go down beyond recovery.
Don't fight to get ALL answers correctly in the inital Qs, if you see a very tough one, skip, no problem. What you don't do is (btw, if this happens that means you have some gaping holes in prep) answer wrong in a sequence of Qs, GMAT gives you varying difficulty of Qs initially and answering wrong to all will mean your level must be lowered.
Don't fight to get ALL answers correctly in the inital Qs, if you see a very tough one, skip, no problem. What you don't do is (btw, if this happens that means you have some gaping holes in prep) answer wrong in a sequence of Qs, GMAT gives you varying difficulty of Qs initially and answering wrong to all will mean your level must be lowered.
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