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by 7OO » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:26 am
I took the GMATPrep Cat exam this morning. I took it in the library on my laptop, but since there was no outlet near by I did not plug-in the power adaptor of my laptop.

My laptop SHUT DOWN on question #35 on the verbal section!!!

I ran home to find an outlet, plugged in my computer, and *whew* found out my test answer were not erased. HOWEVER, i tried to "resume" the exam and it wouln't let me - the GMATPrep just took me to the "review screen" (meaning the endd of the exam). I still had about 6 questions left on verbal. Not a big deal BUTTT

GMATPrep won't show me a score whatsoever.

Any suggestions??!
Or did I just waste 2 hours//I will have to re-take the exam all over again?

Please Please help me!! :cry:
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by blue_lotus » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:38 pm
Hi,

The best thing you can do now is note down the answers you have
marked for all attempted questions. Then re-install the software.
Then try to attempt the same test again.
Almost certain the same questions will be repeated in the same order.
You can now use your previous ticked answer to reach where you left.
From there on you can complete the test.

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by frantastic » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:46 pm
I do not recommend that idea at all! It won't resemble a real experience, because you will have so much time left over to do the other questions. It would totally skew your score.

Just uninstall the software and reinstall it. You'll get pretty much all new questions since you didn't get that far.

And next time, plug in your powercord. ;-)
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by Stacey Koprince » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:19 pm
If you reinstall, it is NOT highly likely that you'll see the exact same test - the test is adaptive and has a decent number of questions from which to pull, so it just depends. Still, if you take it again very soon, you'll likely be performing at about the same level, so it's likely you will see some of the same questions.

The real issue is this: if you see more than 2 or 3 questions that you've already seen, and you remember them, this will skew your score higher - not just for those questions, but for other questions b/c you will spend less time on the ones you've seen.

You don't have one great option here, unfortunately. You can try to contact GMAC to see if they can give you any tech support for the issue, but it's a free product so I wouldn't count on that. Your next best option is probably just to re-take the test but, if you do, first review the questions you've done already (and maybe even print screen shots) so you can learn from the ones you've already seen.

I know everyone takes GMATPrep to see their scores but that's really not the best use of these tests anyway. The best use of the tests is to go look at each question, whether you got it right or got it wrong, and learn everything you can, and also to review your broad strategies and pacing for the entire test to make sure you executed in the way you wanted to. The test has a wide standard deviation already and you knew it wasn't an official test as you were taking it - those two things introduce such a wide potential variance in scores that the number spit out at the end is far from the most useful data point here.
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