GMATprep harder than OG questions!

Problem Solving — algebra and arithmetic (GMAT Focus Edition)
This topic has expert replies
Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts
Posts: 7
Joined: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:15 pm
Location: New Jersey

GMATprep harder than OG questions!

by Peter284 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:08 pm
Hello All,

I did a quick search on this topic but couldn't find anything on it. I apologize if it's a repeat. G-day is exactly two weeks away and I took my first practice test today with GMATprep. I finished all PS problems in OG and went through the problems I got wrong countless times until I understood the concept. I have read many times that the questions on the GMATprep are very similar to the questions in OG, but when I took it...the questions were so much harder! Has anybody felt this way too? I am imagining the actual GMAT will be even harder than the practice. If that's the case..then I am very discouraged. My goal was to crack 700. I got under 600 on the practice.
Source: — Quantitative Reasoning |

Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
Posts: 10
Joined: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:03 pm
GMAT Score:710

by klamation » Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:10 pm
I took my first GMATPrep today and I too felt the quant section was much harder than the OG problems. The problems had a slightly different style to it than the OG, but I don't know if I was just imagining it or if it was just a small sample size. I only pulled a 40 when I had been scoring in the high 40's on the PR and MGMAT exams. On the plus side, my verbal score was higher than ever even though I've neglected it the past week :? so who knows?

Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 45
Joined: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:24 pm
Thanked: 2 times

by warlock » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:58 am
i too took a test and was surprised that even though i got 12 out of 37 questions wrong, i got a score of 49!! Is it possible.?
Can anyone explain what this means?
and the questions were really really though..
how close does the gmatperp software to the real exams..

thanks,
warlock