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08 Dec 2018, 16:21
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We all know that there are various levels of difficulty when it comes to GMAT questions.
My question is, does anyone know how they form the questions for the various difficulty levels?
Do they base it on:
1. Time - basically take an average of the length of time it takes to answer a question, and then based on that time set the difficulty? I.e. the longer it takes the average person to answer it, the higher the difficulty level becomes?
2. Steps - if for example, to get to an answer, one must figure out 1 thing, and then another, and then another, before ultimately landing on an answer. I.e. the more steps it takes, the higher the difficulty?
3. Complexity - the more outside the box one has to think to answer the question. But how is this quantified?
4. Any others?
In short what I'd like to know is, if I were hired by GMAC to write questions for them and I've never written a single one before, what would the set of instructions on how to do so look like?
Thanks!
My question is, does anyone know how they form the questions for the various difficulty levels?
Do they base it on:
1. Time - basically take an average of the length of time it takes to answer a question, and then based on that time set the difficulty? I.e. the longer it takes the average person to answer it, the higher the difficulty level becomes?
2. Steps - if for example, to get to an answer, one must figure out 1 thing, and then another, and then another, before ultimately landing on an answer. I.e. the more steps it takes, the higher the difficulty?
3. Complexity - the more outside the box one has to think to answer the question. But how is this quantified?
4. Any others?
In short what I'd like to know is, if I were hired by GMAC to write questions for them and I've never written a single one before, what would the set of instructions on how to do so look like?
Thanks!
08 Dec 2018, 19:08
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In short, the GMAC would give you a list of skills that they want the questions you make to test. You would then make questions that fit within the guidelines the GMAC has for its questions.
None of the points mentioned above (time, number of steps etc.) is used to determine the characteristics of a question. Those are determined by one thing only: the responses of test takers. See this post for more information on how the difficulty level of a question is determined.
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