The Myth of the First 10 GMAT Questions

Overinvesting time in answering the first 10 questions in the Quant and Verbal sections will not give you an advantage on the GMAT and is actually likely to sabotage your score. Thus, it is essential that you have a solid GMAT pacing strategy in place, one that allows you to balance your time appropriately so that you are not rushing to complete a section or guessing on many questions because you’re almost out of time.

Of course, a key move in any GMAT strategy is to seek to consistently answer medium- and easy-level questions correctly, whether such questions appear among the first 10 or later in a section.

So, yes, every test-taker should be careful when answering the first 10 questions of a section, but that doesn’t mean you can hack your way to a high GMAT score by overinvesting time in those questions.