essay and ir not necessary

[elenis297]

hi!i take my gmat exam in 2 weeks.i need only Q and V.at the exam day i just skip IR and AWA? is it possible like cats or should i have mentioned it when i registrated?
do you think it would be helpful for me to answer IR ?

[StaceyKoprince]

You should actually do both sections. The people who make the test say that they "reserve the right" to cancel tests that they think don't conform to standard procedure and one of the things they've cited as a possible trigger is skippig one of the test sections.

So do write a short essay and do go ahead and try some of the IR problems, but don't take those two sections very seriously. Save your mental energy for the Q and V sections.

Good luck!

[elenis297]

thank you very much!
i d like to ask you one more thing:
I'm self taught and i didn't know that this could happen,my friends had told me that there wasn't any problem at skipping these two parts. So I have my exam in two weeks and I haven't been prepared for AWA and IR.
if i write a bad awa and ir, does it affect my other two parts at all?
if i take the risk not to answer them there is a possibility to cancel my results ?or they do so anyway?

[StaceyKoprince]

The scores are separate for those two sections, so they won't affect your scores on the Q and V sections.

If you didn't answer them, you would still get scores for each section (the lowest possible scores of course). They wouldn't just say "not done" or something like that.

So you're going to get a score on those sections no matter what. If you don't do anything at all, then they reserve the right to possibly cancel your entire test scores (I don't know that they would necessarily do so-- they just say that they could).

So go ahead and answer the questions and write the essay. Just don't spend a ton of time / brain energy doing so. That way, your Q and V test scores are safe, and you might even score higher than the lowest possible scores on the other two sections even though you haven't studied for them. :)