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Do not assume a section is weighted more heavily just because it felt harder. Unless Bain or the assessment instructions provide a weighting, candidates generally cannot infer the scoring model from difficulty alone.
Different question types can feel harder depending on your strengths, and the assessment may combine multiple signals. Your personal experience of difficulty is not enough to determine how the firm scores each component.
A quantitative section may feel much harder to you than a verbal section, while another candidate experiences the reverse. That does not establish that one carries more weight in the firm's evaluation.
Review the official instructions for anything they explicitly say about scoring or sections, then focus your preparation on the areas where your accuracy or pacing is weakest rather than trying to reverse-engineer unknown weights. If useful, this guide on Bain TestGorilla guide gives more detail.