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Difficulty Order in OG11?

Problem Solving — algebra and arithmetic (GMAT Focus Edition)
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Difficulty Order in OG11?

by elmiko » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:39 pm
Just wondering if anyone knew if questions got more difficult as the numbers advanced, specifically in the problem solving section. I've done questions 1-80 and have really not found them to be terribly challenging. In my actual GMAT experience and in my experience with other prep workbooks, the questions are most certainly NOT that easy.

Should I skip to somewhere further on in the workbook or are they not in any particular order?

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by Ian Stewart » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:04 pm
Yes, the Official Guide questions progress from easy to hard. If the early questions aren't challenging for you, that's a good sign, and if the later questions still aren't challenging, that's a very good sign. If you have time, I'd suggest doing all of them, but if you don't, you might want to skip ahead.
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by logitech » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:22 pm
Ian Stewart wrote:Yes, the Official Guide questions progress from easy to hard. If the early questions aren't challenging for you, that's a good sign, and if the later questions still aren't challenging, that's a very good sign. If you have time, I'd suggest doing all of them, but if you don't, you might want to skip ahead.
Ian, I solved all of the OG Quant books in both books and my hit rate is 98% and my average timing is 1:34 seconds.

I got this data from my OG tracker.

I am having hard time to push my quant score from 49 to 50 and 51.

How do you score 51 ?

During my CATs, I usually have no mistakes till 15th question and I get 2-3 wrongs between 15-25 and since I get by tougher and tougher questions, and I guess couple of questions with POE if I am falling behind and I usually find myself barely finishing the section STRONG and ON TIME.

Any recommendation ?
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by elmiko » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:25 pm
Any recommendations, then, for the most efficient way to practice if I start to make an unacceptable amount of errors around problem 110 of 250 in the problem solving section? Time is not an issue, really - if I know how to solve the problem I can do it quickly enough. But from question 100 to 115, I simply did not know how to approach 4 of the questions!

I'd like to get my quant score up as high as possible, ideally, but realistically my goal is to shoot for a minimum score of 680. I regularly score in the 95+ percentile in verbal, but average mid 30s in quant.
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