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mehrabounr
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Hi Rebecca,
i have 3 questions regarding time issues and their effect on the score.
1- Some people say "your answers to the first 10 questions is very important because it makes the base of your scoring. so you should take more time for answering these first questions".
Is that true?
Cause i think GMAT considers your whole performance and even if you start bad you can get a good score.
Can you explain about this?
2- Can you explain about the "penalty for not answering questions" is there a negative score?
I think if you get 5 wrongs from 37 you get a fraction 5/37. if you don't answer 3 questions,which leaves you with 34 in total, you would have 5/34 which is a bigger fraction meaning your wrong percentile would be higher so your score would become lower.
Is this explanation right?
or penalty really means penalty like negative score?
3- I know they say that "If you know you don't have time to answer all questions, choose randomly and don't leave any questions unanswered". this is what most people say.
A tutor/consultant told me that "for example if you have 10 minutes for 15 questions and you know you have to choose 7 randomly, don't leave the last 7 for that random choosing. It will drop your score seriously. Spread these 7 questions. answer 1 and choose one randomly then solve another and so on."
Is this true?
Does it matter if you answer 7 questions wrong successively or at random intervals
for example if in Quantitative section, you answer the first 30 right and the last 7 wrong would you get a different score from someone who has 7 wrong in total
If you could answer these questions specially the third one, i would really appreciate it
thank you.
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I remembered one more question. About break times on test day.Is it 5 minutes,7minutes or 8?
From the time you leave your seat till you come back, including scanning your palm?
(I've taken the exam before. They didn't scan me again! maybe because i didn't leave their sight.But there was no clock to tell me how long i was on break so i went back soon not to miss anything)
i have 3 questions regarding time issues and their effect on the score.
1- Some people say "your answers to the first 10 questions is very important because it makes the base of your scoring. so you should take more time for answering these first questions".
Is that true?
Cause i think GMAT considers your whole performance and even if you start bad you can get a good score.
Can you explain about this?
2- Can you explain about the "penalty for not answering questions" is there a negative score?
I think if you get 5 wrongs from 37 you get a fraction 5/37. if you don't answer 3 questions,which leaves you with 34 in total, you would have 5/34 which is a bigger fraction meaning your wrong percentile would be higher so your score would become lower.
Is this explanation right?
or penalty really means penalty like negative score?
3- I know they say that "If you know you don't have time to answer all questions, choose randomly and don't leave any questions unanswered". this is what most people say.
A tutor/consultant told me that "for example if you have 10 minutes for 15 questions and you know you have to choose 7 randomly, don't leave the last 7 for that random choosing. It will drop your score seriously. Spread these 7 questions. answer 1 and choose one randomly then solve another and so on."
Is this true?
Does it matter if you answer 7 questions wrong successively or at random intervals
for example if in Quantitative section, you answer the first 30 right and the last 7 wrong would you get a different score from someone who has 7 wrong in total
If you could answer these questions specially the third one, i would really appreciate it
thank you.
----
I remembered one more question. About break times on test day.Is it 5 minutes,7minutes or 8?
From the time you leave your seat till you come back, including scanning your palm?
(I've taken the exam before. They didn't scan me again! maybe because i didn't leave their sight.But there was no clock to tell me how long i was on break so i went back soon not to miss anything)
