General questions relating to Manhattan Prep, the GRE exam and just about anything else you can think of.
Christopher.Stronski
Students
 
Posts: 1
Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:23 pm
 

Confidence in questions given during the exam are correct.

by Christopher.Stronski Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:57 pm

At what point in a question should I start to wonder if a problem exists? As far as thinking that I may want to alert the proctor but not in what could be considered an alarmist way. Sorry I had written out a more detailed paragraph but my computer froze. I will just add that I have ADHD and math or science is fairly easy to me. But for verbal when you start to add in varying degrees of subjective thought I don't always view things from the same perspective as what most people would. So I might pick an answer that to me is most appropriate. I don't quite know how to phrase it but it usually only occurs if two answers are really similar but one is concluded to be most appropriate by the team that came up with the question. It probably won't really affect my application to grad school when combined with the other parts of my application but I still want to get the best score I can.
tommywallach
Manhattan Prep Staff
 
Posts: 1917
Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:18 am
 

Re: Confidence in questions given during the exam are correct.

by tommywallach Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:31 pm

Hey Christopher,

It's a common fallacy to believe that verbal questions are based on subjective readings. They are not. There are always four wrong answers and one right answer. I've been teaching this test for seven years, and I've only seen a couple of problematic questions (whereas I've seen maybe a dozen problematic LSAT questions). If you're picking an answer that isn't the credited answer, it's simply incorrect. Keep in mind, you might be reading a weak explanation for why the wrong answers are wrong, but that's the fault of the explanation, not the original question. I promise!

-t