GMAT/GRE Test adaptivity

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GMAT/GRE Test adaptivity

by mariosmk » Wed Aug 07, 2013 6:03 am
A friend of mine took the GRE and scored 165 at quant but a bad score at verb section.

He started the test with the verbal section and the continued to the quant.

His background is the same as mine. We are attending Mechanical Engineering, a polytechnic uni in Greece which has a very mathematically strong curriculum with difficult lessons.

My question is: One individual's bad performance on verbal can affect the level of difficulty of quant section? Because he told me that he took 165 which is nearly 790 for fun. What is your opinion on that? It is maybe the fact that from the high school the level of mathematics that we learn is pretty high?
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by [email protected] » Wed Aug 07, 2013 12:03 pm
Hi mariosmk,

Each of the sections on the GRE and GMAT is independent of the other sections. So NO - doing poorly on the Verbal section did NOT affect the Quant section.

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