GMAT Strategy

Has anyone got the breakdown of all the questions in the offcial guide by the topics .?

Here are the critical reasoning questions by type. If the question is new this is indicated. If it is from the 12th edition the question number is noted in parenthesis.

A breakdown of the types of questions is located at the end of the list - for example, there are 28 strengthen questions out of the 124 total.

I also wrote on article about the changes to the Critical Reasoning in OG13 it is called "The OG 13 and the Future of Critical Reasoning. https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/03/ ... -reasoning

Question Breakdown for the 13th edition

1. New. Strengthen. Conclusion in question stem.
2. (3). Weaken. Describe the Flaw.
3. New. Paradox.
4. (4). Weaken.
5. (5). Plan. Strengthen.
6. New. Paradox.
7. (6). Plan. Choose the Plan.
8. New. Weaken.
9. New. Paradox.
10. (7). Most Useful to Know.
11. New. Strengthen.
12. New. Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
13. (9). Plan. Paradox.
14. (11). Strengthen.
15. (12). Plan. Most Useful to Know.
16. (14). Strengthen.
17. New. Plan. Strengthen.
18. (17). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced. Single portion.
19. New. Strengthen.
20. (19). Weaken. Describe the Flaw.
21. (20). Assumption.
22. New. Strengthen.
23. (21). Strengthen.
24. (22). Paradox.
25. (23). Weaken.
26. (26). Inference.
27. (27). Most Useful to Know.
28. (29). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
29. New. Plan. Choose the Plan.
30. (32). Plan. Strengthen.
31. (34). Weaken. Most Logically Completes.
32. (35). Weaken.
33. New. Plan. Name Flaw. Most Logically Completes.
34. (37). Method of Reasoning.
35. (38). Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
36. (39). Most Useful to Know.
37. (40). Weaken. Cause and Effect.
38. (41). Inference. Most Logically Completes.
39. New. Assumption. Most Logically Completes.
40. (42). Strengthen.
41. (43). Assumption.
42. (44). Plan. Most Useful to Know.
43. (45). Plan. Respond to criticism.
44. (46). EXCEPT. Paradox.
45. (47). Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
46. (48). Assumption.
47. (49). Most Useful to Know.
48. (50). Assumption.
49. New. Paradox.
50. (51). Strengthen.
51. (52). Weaken. Describe the Flaw.
52. (53). Strengthen. Cause and Effect.
53. (55). Plan. Choose the Plan.
54. (56). Inference.
55. (57). Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
56. (58). Strengthen.
57. (59). Paradox.
58. (60). Weaken.
59. New. Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
60. (61). Inference.
61. (62). Paradox.
62. (63). Weaken. Describe the Flaw.
63. (64). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
64. (65). Strengthen.
65. New. Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
66. (66). Inference.
67. (67). Strengthen.
68. (69). Most Useful to Know.
69. New. Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
70. (72). Most Useful to Know.
71. (73). Weaken.
72. (74). Most Useful to Know.
73. (75). Weaken. Cause and Effect.
74. New. Inference. Most Logically Completes.
75. (76). Assumption.
76. (77). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
77. (78). Assumption.
78. (79). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
79. (81). Weaken.
80. (82). EXCEPT. Strengthen.
81. New. Strengthen. Most Logically Completes.
82. (83). Weaken.
83. (84). Assumption.
84. (85). Method of Reasoning.
85. (86). Method of Reasoning.
86. New. Paradox.
87. (87). Weaken.
88. (88). Plan. Weaken.
89. (89). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
90. (90). Plan. Weaken.
91. (91). Inference.
92. (92). Paradox.
93. (93). Assumption.
94. New. Paradox.
95. (94). Strengthen. Cause and Effect.
96. (95). Assumption.
97. (96). Plan. Disadvantage.
98. (97). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
99. (98). Paradox.
100. New. Weaken. Describe the Flaw.
101. (99). Weaken. Most Logically Completes.
102. (100). EXCEPT. Strengthen.
103. (101). Inference.
104. (102). Inference.
105. (103). Inference.
106. New. Assumption.
107. (104) Weaken.
108. (106). EXCEPT. Strengthen.
109. (107). Plan. Assumption.
110. (108). Most Useful to Know.
111. (109). Plan. Strengthen.
112. (111). Weaken.
113. (112). Assumption.
114. New. Most Useful to Know.
115. (114). Weaken.
116. (117). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
117. (118). Plan. Disadvantage.
118. (119). Strengthen.
119. (120). Weaken.
120. (121) Strengthen.
121. (122). Strengthen.
122. (123). Weaken.
123. (124). Method of Reasoning. Bold-faced.
124. New. Most Useful to Know.

Totals for OG 13: 124 questions
Strengthen: 28 (23%)
Cause and Effect: 2
Assumption: 12 (10%)
Paradox: 12 (10%)
Weaken: 23 (19%)
Cause and Effect: 2
Describe the Flaw: 5
Most Useful to Know: 10 (8%)
Inference: 10 (8%)
Method: 12 (10%)
Bold-faced: 9

Plan: 17 (14%)
Strengthen the likelihood of success/ Respond to Criticism: 5
Weaken the likelihood of success/ Disadvantage of the Plan/ Name the Flaw: 5
Most Useful to Know: 2
Choose the Plan: 3
Assumption: 1
Paradox: 1

Of all the above questions: Most Logically Completes: 14 (8 new).
Of all the above questions: EXCEPT: 4

New questions: Total 25. 9 strengthen; 6 Paradox; 2 Assumption; 2 weaken; 2 most useful to know; 1 Inference; 3 Plan. 8 of these are Most Logically Completes.

Reading Comp to follow...

Categories of Reading Comprehension Question in the Official Guide 13th Edition.

Categories of reading comprehension questions vary depending on who is doing the categorization. At Veritas we use a simple, but very useful 4-part categorization. Here are the categories:

Specific - Specific questions at those that feature an answer choice that is a paraphrase of something directly from the text. These questions often start with "according to the passage" and are directly answered by the correct portion of the text.

Inference - Inference questions are an extension of what is specifically said in the text. These questions say "the passage implies (or suggests)" of "the author would most likely agree with" or "it can be inferred."

Function - The function question asks why a particular paragraph or piece of information is used. What is its function in the passage?

Universal - The universal question asks you about the passage as a whole. The "primary purpose" is the best known universal question, but other questions may ask for the best title or what the author is most interested in.

1) SPECIFIC
2) SPECIFIC
3) SPECIFIC
4) UNIVERSAL
5) UNIVERSAL
6) SPECIFIC
7) INFERENCE
8) UNIVERSAL
9) INFERENCE, EXCEPT
10) SPECIFIC
11) SPECIFIC
12) FUNCTION
13) FUNCTION
14) SPECIFIC
15) INFERENCE
16) INFERENCE
17) SPECIFIC
18) INFERENCE
19) SPECIFIC
20) INFERENCE
21) FUNCTION
22) INFERENCE
23) INFERENCE
24) FUNCTION
25) UNIVERSAL
26) UNIVERSAL
27) INFERENCE
28) INFERENCE
29) SPECIFIC
30) FUNCTION
31) UNIVERSAL
32) SPECIFIC
33) INFERENCE
34) FUNCTION
35) SPECIFIC
36) SPECIFIC, EXCEPT
37) INFERENCE
38) INFERENCE
39) FUNCTION
40) INFERENCE, EXCEPT
41) UNIVERSAL
42) INFERENCE
43) Weaken
44) INFERENCE
45) UNIVERSAL
46) SPECIFIC
47) INFERENCE
48) INFERENCE
49) INFERENCE
50) FUNCTION
51) SPECIFIC, EXCEPT
52) INFERENCE
53) SPECIFIC
54) FUNCTION
55) UNIVERSAL
56) SPECIFIC
57) INFERENCE
58) INFERENCE
59) SPECIFIC
60) FUNCTION
61) UNIVERSAL
62) INFERENCE
63) UNIVERSAL
64) INFERENCE
65) INFERENCE
66) SPECIFIC
67) INFERENCE
68) INFERENCE
69) UNIVERSAL
70) FUNCTION
71) INFERENCE
72) SPECIFIC
73) INFERENCE
74) INFERENCE
75) UNIVERSAL
76) SPECIFIC
77) SPECIFIC
78) SPECIFIC
79) SPECIFIC
80) FUNCTION
81) SPECIFIC
82) INFERENCE
83) INFERENCE
84) INFERENCE
85) INFERENCE
86) UNIVERSAL
87) UNIVERSAL
88) SPECIFIC
89) INFERENCE
90) INFERENCE
91) INFERENCE
92) INFERENCE
93) SPECIFIC, EXCEPT
94) INFERENCE
95) INFERENCE
96) SPECIFIC, EXCEPT
97) INFERENCE
98) INFERENCE
99) UNIVERSAL
100) INFERENCE
101) INFERENCE
102) FUNCTION
103) SPECIFIC
104) UNIVERSAL
105) SPECIFIC
106) INFERENCE
107) INFERENCE
108) INFERENCE
109) FUNCTION
110) SPECIFIC
111) SPECIFIC
112) INFERENCE
113) Strengthen
114) INFERENCE
115) UNIVERSAL
116) SPECIFIC
117) Weaken
118) INFERENCE
119) SPECIFIC, EXCEPT
120) UNIVERSAL
121) INFERENCE
122) INFERENCE
123) INFERENCE
124) INFERENCE
125) SPECIFIC
126) FUNCTION
127) INFERENCE
128) SPECIFIC
129) INFERENCE
130) INFERENCE
131) FUNCTION
132) SPECIFIC
133) INFERENCE
134) SPECIFIC
135) INFERENCE
136) SPECIFIC
137) SPECIFIC, EXCEPT
138) Assumption
139) UNIVERSAL

Thanks David.

Do you have the topic wise breakdown for quant portion

Thanks for sharing the improvement chart ,Brent.

I am looking for a breakdown of quant question in OG such as the one posted by David for verbal questions where i can look up the questions by topic

In the improvement chart i can only find out the topic of the question once i have answered it and logged it in the cell

Thank you David for providing the breakdown of CR and RC questions.

Would you also have the break down for the SC questions?

Thanks in advance!

Unfortunately, a breakdown of the SC questions by topic would render them useless for students to use. You see, if you know in advance that you have a strengthen CR question that is no big deal because the question stem will tell you that it is a strengthen question!

But if you know in advance that a particular SC question is about parallelism or subject-verb agreement, well that is what sentence correction is about right? Figuring out what to focus on for each question. So no chart for SC.

I am glad that the CR and RC charts were useful!

David

Brent is quite right...

A CR question is not a strengthen and a weaken, a Word Problem is not a work/ rate and a venn diagram, but a sentence correction problem is often many things at once.

Thanks Brent!