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Test Questions Similiar to OG or Kaplan?

by famber4 » Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:36 pm
Hello all., First of all congrats on beating the GMAT.
My question is for all of the lucky ones who have already taken the exam.

For the quantitative section, to which of these math questions in the test resemble: Official Guide or the Kaplan Books?

Also, in the OG the questions are listed according to their toughness (hard ones towards the end of math problems? Are those the hardest we can get hit by or did you guys have any ugly surprises during the exam?

Please reply. Thanks, Amber
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by VP_Jim » Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:08 pm
First of all, the Official Guides contain problems that were actual problems used in previous GMAT exams, and that were written by the creators of the GMAT. While I cannot attest to the similarity of the problems compared to those in the actual exam in the Kaplan books, you can be pretty sure that the problems in the OG are very representative of the problems you can expect to see on the GMAT.

Yes, in the OG, the questions (for both quant and verbal) go from easiest to hardest in level of difficulty.

Hope this clarifies things up for you a bit. Good luck!
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by VP_Jim » Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:48 am
Another thing I forgot to add: you can definitely get harder math problems if you're scoring really well in quant. However, the OG is fine if you're under about 80th percentile.
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