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crazy4gmat
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at what level were these questions?
there are 2 things that may be at work here:
(1) some of our highest-level problems contain a bit more work than do comparable problems on the official tests. they aren't necessarily harder; they just require more steps / more labor than do the official problems.
(2) our tests don't currently contain any experimental questions, so, if you're scoring at a high level, all of the problems on the test will be pretty hard. by contrast, on the official exam, the experimental questions (of which there are 9-10 per section) will always be of random difficulty levels, so you're guaranteed at least a few easier ones even if you're nailing the exam.
if you're scoring at a high level, then either or both of these may be affecting your test.
we realize that this causes a slight discrepancy with the official exams, but, because the vast majority of students have problems with taking too much time, the extra time pressure is a very good thing indeed: it really lights a fire under students in terms of better time management.
also, if you're not seeing relatively large numbers of 700+ level questions in your cat exam analysis, then neither of the above issues should matter very much in your case.
. i have got 16 correct out of the 31 attended which ended up in Quants score of 40. But having to miss 6 questions in Quants pissed me off so much i refused to take the verbal section.
This clears a lot of doubts I had.
