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Thank you for watching and your question! On the GMAT Classic/Legacy, if you made more than 2 mistakes in the first 10 questions, you would be penalized quite severely and sometimes not even able to recover as the test would serve you easy and medium difficulty questions. On GMAT Focus, the placement of mistakes does not matter as much or almost at all. We have ran some experiments making 7 mistakes in the first 10, making 7 mistakes in the middle and the last 10 questions (out of 21 Quant) and the results did not show almost any difference, so you no longer have to stress about the first 10 questions and spending more time on them. Instead, you can focus on answering the questions and doing the best work you can regardless of the question's placement in the test.
@@gmatclub thank you for the extremely valuable information - just started studying for the Focus and was wondering about that “loophole” with the legacy exam, glad to hear it’s been addressed in some way
@@frostyphish7149 it was not so much of a loophole but rather an annoying "tax" - the difficulty of the test was heavily influenced by the first 10 questions and if you made several mistakes, the test would pigeonhole you into a lower score bracket. Thankfully this is gone now, so this is a good thing for time management. Imagine having to be paranoid for every question out of the first 10. Many people have messed up their scores just being anxious. Hopefully, not something you need to worry about a whole lot :-)
"You will lose between 4 and 5 points on a section for leaving just one question without an answer, whereas you would lose 2 points at most, for getting it wrong." So basically what you are saying is that there is a negative marking for the questions you answer incorrectly?
Hi. Thank you for the question and to clarify what we intended to communicate: 1) A test taker would lose 1-2 points when getting a questions wrong on the GMAT, out of Max of 90 for example. 2) A test taker would lose 4-5 points if they leave a question without an answer. Hope this answers the question. Let us know if we can clarify further BB, Founder of GMAT Club.
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Thank you for the summary! I'm taking the GMAT Focus in 2 days and this video helped me feel less nervous.
best of luck!
We are glad this video helped! Good luck with your test!
How did you do? Was it as you expected?
How was the outcome?
Hello! Could you clarify what the allowance for early errors without penalizing the overall outcome means? Great content as always - thanks!
Thank you for watching and your question! On the GMAT Classic/Legacy, if you made more than 2 mistakes in the first 10 questions, you would be penalized quite severely and sometimes not even able to recover as the test would serve you easy and medium difficulty questions. On GMAT Focus, the placement of mistakes does not matter as much or almost at all. We have ran some experiments making 7 mistakes in the first 10, making 7 mistakes in the middle and the last 10 questions (out of 21 Quant) and the results did not show almost any difference, so you no longer have to stress about the first 10 questions and spending more time on them. Instead, you can focus on answering the questions and doing the best work you can regardless of the question's placement in the test.
@@gmatclub thank you for the extremely valuable information - just started studying for the Focus and was wondering about that “loophole” with the legacy exam, glad to hear it’s been addressed in some way
@@frostyphish7149 it was not so much of a loophole but rather an annoying "tax" - the difficulty of the test was heavily influenced by the first 10 questions and if you made several mistakes, the test would pigeonhole you into a lower score bracket. Thankfully this is gone now, so this is a good thing for time management. Imagine having to be paranoid for every question out of the first 10. Many people have messed up their scores just being anxious. Hopefully, not something you need to worry about a whole lot :-)
@@frostyphish7149 Hi bro
Are you prepping up for FE
Which resources are u using?
TTP vs EGmat
"You will lose between 4 and 5 points on a section for leaving just one question without an answer, whereas you would lose 2 points at most, for getting it wrong." So basically what you are saying is that there is a negative marking for the questions you answer incorrectly?
I'm also having the same question. Please answer this question.
Hi. Thank you for the question and to clarify what we intended to communicate:
1) A test taker would lose 1-2 points when getting a questions wrong on the GMAT, out of Max of 90 for example.
2) A test taker would lose 4-5 points if they leave a question without an answer.
Hope this answers the question. Let us know if we can clarify further
BB, Founder of GMAT Club.
@@gowriuh09 Just replied to the other comment - let me know if this does not quite answer your question. I also got one of these via a PM 😇
@@gmatclub thank you for the clarification