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by Empirestateofmind » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:25 pm
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I think that instead of doing OG11, you'd be better off doing questions from OG10. OG10 questions are really good at least SC and CR. I have done them and found them quite helpful.

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by powerpuff » Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:23 am
Empirestateofmind wrote:@powerpuff
I think that instead of doing OG11, you'd be better off doing questions from OG10. OG10 questions are really good at least SC and CR. I have done them and found them quite helpful.
Okay. Have started with OG10 and I think that the CR questions are good. Haven't gone through SC yet.

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by modo » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:56 pm
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powerpuff wrote:Congrats! That's a wonderful improvement in a short period of time. Did you practice the passages in the official Guide and how difficult do you think they were vis-a-vis those you got on the actual exam ?
The OG passages I thought were somewhere in the easy-middle difficulty similar to the rest of the material in the OG. I could tell I was doing a little better this time versus last time because my last passage was very difficult. More like a RC99 passage than a OG passage.
Thanks for the reply. Also wanted to ask whether you used OG11 or OG10 also ?
I just used OG12, didn't mess with the older versions since I heard that they overlap so much.

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by powerpuff » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:38 am
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powerpuff wrote:Congrats! That's a wonderful improvement in a short period of time. Did you practice the passages in the official Guide and how difficult do you think they were vis-a-vis those you got on the actual exam ?
The OG passages I thought were somewhere in the easy-middle difficulty similar to the rest of the material in the OG. I could tell I was doing a little better this time versus last time because my last passage was very difficult. More like a RC99 passage than a OG passage.
Thanks for the reply. Also wanted to ask whether you used OG11 or OG10 also ?
I just used OG12, didn't mess with the older versions since I heard that they overlap so much.
Yeah, after having done OG10 almost 50%, I think that quite a few questions overlap, but then also I think that it's beneficial if someone is looking for extra practice material and wants to practice more.

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by prateek_guy2004 » Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:54 am
Have completed OG 12 i guees i need OG 10 as well.

Nice debrief and congrats for good score.

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by megadeth » Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:36 am
Great improvement. I think that this improvement is great within one month. Did you use the error log also while preparing ?

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by runthegmat » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:33 am
megadeth wrote:Great improvement. I think that this improvement is great within one month. Did you use the error log also while preparing ?
I think that the error log is quite a hyped thing. I use error log but that is not as detailed as the ones here on BTG and GMATCLUB. In my error log, I have kept a column for "Takeaways" which is the most helpful thing so that I can refer to it when I'd want to revise.

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by punewarrior » Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:01 am
runthegmat wrote: I think that the error log is quite a hyped thing. I use error log but that is not as detailed as the ones here on BTG and GMATCLUB. In my error log, I have kept a column for "Takeaways" which is the most helpful thing so that I can refer to it when I'd want to revise.
Yeah, I had downloaded one error log from gmatclub which seemed so elaborate and complex that it seemed as though I'll have to take classes for learning to use that :-D