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PS and DS 50/50?

by isisalaska » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:05 am
In the real exam, is PS and DS about 50/50?, for instance if you are better in DS and not that good in PS can you still do well in the quant. section?
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by aim-wsc » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:15 am
It will again depend on the no. of difficult questions you answer correctly.
not on whether it is PS or DS.

bytheway
i have one similar query:

what if you are better at only one types of questions say PS... then as difficulty level raises does GMAC ask more DS questions?

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by isisalaska » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:37 am
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Are you answering questions at 1 am? :shock:
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by aim-wsc » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:04 pm
dont worry ma'am
I am not high or drunk :lol:

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by venkb » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:38 am
i am not an expert but in the actual exam i did find tough PS questions too. I got one on combinations and one on probability. The probability question was really tough. Btw, i dont remember any tough DS questions. But for some DS questions i did take more than 2 minutes.

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by Stacey Koprince » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:36 pm
There are exactly 15 DS questions and 22 PS questions in every 37-question quant section - so you have a few more PS. You will see difficult questions of both types - just depends what mix you get on the test.
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by aim-wsc » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:21 pm
Stacey Koprince wrote:There are exactly 15 DS questions and 22 PS questions in every 37-question quant section - so you have a few more PS. You will see difficult questions of both types - just depends what mix you get on the test.
so that means this ratio never change significantly even if you are performing too well in one of the types?

I heard that proportion changes a bit for verbal section.. say if you are tackling CR well & SC poorly then it ll ask you more SC questions...
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by Stacey Koprince » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:54 pm
The # of math questions of each type never changes - 15 DS, 22 PS, always. The # of each of the 3 types of verbal questions does vary, but they haven't said how the algorithm determines how many of each to give. It's probably a combination of multiple factors, including experimentals and the natural constraints of RC (you have to give a certain number of questions in a clump) - but I have no idea whether individual performance is one of them. Only the people who make it know - and they don't release that info.
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by aim-wsc » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:11 am
thanks for the info

still i have a feeling that it depends on the individual performance///

sigh i ll know about that once i d take my real test :twisted:
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by Stacey Koprince » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:35 am
Just in - I just got the report from one of our instructors who took the test last month, and he did NOT have 22PS / 15DS. So they are starting to mess with the format - they just haven't made any formal announcement. I'll put a big notice on the main thread too.
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