A doubt from mba.com

[abhijeetace]

https://www.mba.com/mba/thegmat/teststructureandoverview


How does it work?

For each multiple-choice section of the GMAT exam, there is a large pool of potential questions ranging from a low to high level of difficulty. Each section of the test starts with a question of moderate difficulty. If you answer the first question correctly, the computer will usually give you a harder question. If you answer the first question incorrectly, your next question will be easier. This process will continue until you complete the section, at which point the computer will have an accurate assessment of your ability level in that subject area.

In a computer-adaptive test, only one question at a time is presented. Because the computer scores each question before selecting the next one, you may not skip, return to, or change your responses to previous questions.


The question is that we can't skip any question while giving GMAT??..we have to attempt all questions even if we dont want to??

[karanrulz4ever]

I guess you are a newbie in the GMAT world...

Yes...you CANNOT skip any question. You have to attempt the question to get to the next question...

[David@VeritasPrep]

You cannot "Skip" a question and go back to it is what they are saying. So you have to put in an answer, so at least guess at it before you move on.

Don't worry, this is not "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" you do not have to get each one right. I often use the term "skip" informally to mean a student guesses at a question quickly without attempting it. But that is not truly skipping since the student answered the question and cannot go back to it.

Do recall that most students miss something in the neighborhood of 1/2 of the questions on a quant section. So questions are missed and that is not fatal. Even guessing at a question and moving on is not always so bad.

Oh and one more thing...never try to anticipate if you are doing well on the test or a practice exam based on the "difficulty level" of the questions. It is not possible for you to accurately determine the difficulty of the questions you see and even if you could remember that a number of questions are experimental and do not count and may not even be of the difficulty level you would expect. And, of course, it does you know actual good to try and predict how you are doing, the score appears at the end of the exam soon enough!