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Option B or Option D?

by Dean Jones » Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:22 am
Hi friends,

Just wanted to know that whether there is any likelihood that a correct answer in GMAT lies mostly in Option B and Option D and an incorrect answer lies mostly in Option E.

Please share your thoughts.

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by Ian Stewart » Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:17 am
I checked a set of about 600 official GMAT Quant questions, and statistically no answer choice is correct more often than another; each is correct 20% of the time. There's also an official GMAC report that says that they control for answer position. So to answer your question, no, B and D are no more likely to be correct than E.
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by Dan@VinciaPrep » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:47 am
I agree with Ian.

In addition, and you might already know this, if you're backsolving it's good to start with either option B,C, or D.

If you start with B then go to D next. Afterward you should know the answer

If you start with C then you should go to either A or E depending on whether the answer should be smaller or larger.

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