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Hey, I used TTP course and they recommended to follow the order in which you do the most challenging section first. In my case, I have a fear of verbal and quant seems to be very easy for me. So, based on TTP strategy, I thought my strategy should be (Verbal - Break - DI - Quant). Also, I am able to score the maximum in Quant even though I am doing it at the end.
But I read a post from another company and they recommended to start with the section most comfortable/most scoring to you because of section adaptiveness.
Can you please help me with this?
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But I read a post from another company and they recommended to start with the section most comfortable/most scoring to you because of section adaptiveness.
Can you please help me with this?
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I would recommend using the order that is most suitable to you - not necessarily the easiest or toughest first. The order that leaves you feeling comfortable. If you want to get the hardest out of the way first, ok. If you want to take DI at the end because its exhausting, ok. If you want to go all guns blazign at the beginning with your strongest section, ok. Essentially the order that helps you feel most at ease and leaves you with maximum stamina to tackle the next. Theoretically, it should make no difference to the result and here is the logic for it:
As per GMAC, only the first few questions (perhaps 2 - 3) will be affected by your previous section but they won't be much far from 'medium' level. The idea is that normally people have similar performance in sections so once one section is done, the algo "knows the candidate a bit better" so it should use that info. But keep in mind that it will adjust to your performance very quickly so that overall impact on your score will be little.If you do very well in one section and then go on to the weaker section next, you might get some harder questions to begin with but if you answer them incorrectly, they will go down to medium and the algorithm will take it from there. Of course, your penalty for missing harder questions won't be much.
If you do your weaker section first, you will start off with easier questions and as you answer them correctly, the algorithm will up the level. But you won't get much score for answering easy questions currently.
Hence all in all, the impact is the SAME. Do not worry about the algorithm and what it does. Worry about your own comfort - only about which section you would want to do first. Which section saps out your energy? What works better for you? For most people DI works before or after a break i.e. they take Quant-Verbal together in some order and DI first or last. Try 2-3 sequences and figure out which is most comfortable. Use that.
That said, the student feedback is somewhat different. As per that, getting first few questions wrong in the Quant section can be quite detrimental to your Quant score so if Verbal is your nightmare, one might do well to start with it and follow up with Quant so that first few questions are relatively easier and you answer them correctly.
Alternatively, usually between Quant and DI, DI is a bigger problem, so one could start with DI and then go on to Quant and Verbal.
So then I would suggest either
Verbal - Quant - DI or
DI - Quant - Verbal.
Mind you, it is still too early to infer about FE Algo with certainty but we learn as we go along.
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Hi vic231,
As KarishmaB pointed out, choose the section order you're more comfortable with. All the public statements by GMAC on the new algorithm seem to indicate that the impact of an earlier section is extremely limited.
