Are early questions actually worth more points than late questions?
Yes. Answering an early question correctly will increase your score much more than answering a late question correctly will. At each point of the test the computer has an estimate of what it thinks your final score will be. This estimate is based on how you’ve done on all of the questions up to that point. So at the start of the test your score can change rapidly. For example, question three will account for one-third of your score estimate–getting it right will raise your score dramatically, getting it wrong will lower your score just as dramatically. But when you get up to question 20, it will only count for one-twentieth of your score estimate, so this one question won’t affect you nearly as much. In addition, the computer rewards you more for answering a late “hard” question correctly than it does for getting a late “easy” one right; it will also lower your score estimate less for getting a late “hard” question wrong than a late “easy” one. In other words, you need to make it to t
