I missed the first question!!... and still got a 720!

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Granted I was in a pretty bad cold throughout the day today, I missed the first question on the Quant section. It was a simple sequence question to which I just couldn't focus and panicked in picking a number because I was spending well over 4 minutes on it. The next question I got was something like, what is the average of 10, 11, 22, 33, 44, and 55... I almost like stopped the test right there! A question later I am sure that I missed again because the question was asking me to find the area of a right triangle with all but one side given... I couldn't give up though - God must have been watching over me because I somehow got 48 on the math! Shows that the GMAT really is adaptive, if you get knocked down it'll give you more chances and as long as you hit a couple of hard questions in a row and you get them right you are O-K. I wish I can see where I got the verbal questions wrong though.. some of those critical reasoning questions just didn't have any logical solutions... Just my observation, what do you guys think?

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by karanrulz4ever » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:44 pm
Yes you are right. Hence it is advised that you should concentrate only on getting the question on the screen right and not to think about the nitty-gritties like how many hard questions you are facing, how many of your previous questions are wrong etc.

JUST FOCUS ON THE QUESTION THAT'S ON THE SCREEN.

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by Random Wok » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:30 pm
Congrats on your score. I think there's a good chance I missed the first question of my test too.