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For me as a student, learning was often the last thing on my mind to try to score well – especially right before exams.

I remember, before my class 10th exams, I bought books with previous 10 years’ questions. I spent the last few days before my exams going through the books to find trends for what kind of questions might or might not be asked in the exams.

During the period I devoted the most time and effort to studying, I learned the least. In fact, learning was not even on my mind. Scoring was.

While I did learn things along the way, I hacked through most of my education. What’s more, at that time, I did not even realize that there could be another way. My objective was not to be a LEARNER but to be a SCORER – by pretty much any means necessary.

🔘 A poorly designed test would reward scorers and punish learners.
🔘 A somewhat well-designed test would somewhat reward learners and would allow smart scorers to do well.
🔘 A really well-designed test would reward learners and punish scorers.

The GMAT falls in the third category. And for many test-takers, especially those from a typical Indian education system, I believe it is their first experience with a test of this kind. For many, I think this is where the struggle starts.