Schrute Beets wrote:What is the best use of the OG books? Do most people break them up into sets of 40 questions and take them timed?
bad idea, because the problems are ordered by rough level of difficulty.
this means that if you did the
first forty problems of a section on a timer, you would very likely end up with a lot of surplus time, and would get almost all the problems right. on the other hand, if you were to do the
last 40 problems of a section on a timer, you would find that a very difficult and disheartening exercise indeed.
if you have a theoretical idea of your possible score (i.e., from taking a gmatprep test, or one of our practice tests), then you could use a linear approximation* to try to guess which 40 problems come closest to your adaptive difficulty level, but that's more trouble than it's worth.
instead, what you should do with o.g. problems is do them in SMALL SETS (say 5-7 problems), with the appropriate time limits. that should be good enough practice for time management. but you are right that you should ALWAYS practice with a stopwatch.
if you have our strategy guides, they break the o.g. problems down into SUBJECT AREAS. for REVIEW purposes, this is better than random blocks of problems, because you can scan all the problems in a given topic together, hunting for commonalities that you wouldn't ever see by doing individual problems.
* i.e., the middle of the section = approx. 500's, etc.
Schrute Beets wrote:Also - Does anyone know if the free Manhattan GMAT CAT exam includes the two 30 minute AWAs?
yes.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.
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