so i've read from several posts about the goal of increasing your hit rate. i was wondering why that should be the main goal/focus of our studies. on my gmatprep 1 test i missed 17 out of the 37 Q problems and received a 45 score which is decent i think. my hit rate wasn't particularly great, but the score turned out okay. is a high hit rate related to answering more questions consecutively so you can reach the harder questions? or is there some other reason why this should be one of the most important goals?
So, if people are talking about lifting their ability to answer more difficult questions, then yes. That's what studying is all about.
Don't forget, by the way, that you have to get better at doing the questions you already know how to do in order to be able to answer more difficult questions. You can't afford careless mistakes on ones you can do, because then you may not get yourself to a higher level to be offered harder questions. And you also have to learn to be more efficient at the ones you can already do, because the harder they get, the more time they take on average - so you really have to be able to fly through the ones that are below your level (or the level you're hoping to get to).
