Using the Official Guide

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Using the Official Guide

by kidboc1 » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:41 pm
I have the Three OG books (Comprehensive, Math, Verbal).
Does anyone have a recommendation on which to start off with? Would it be better to go through the comprehensive book, then go through the Math and Verbal separately? Also, are the majority of the questions unique or should I expect alot of overlap between the books?

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by beatthegmat » Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:01 pm
There all great books, and they all feature actual GMAT questions. Perhaps starting with the area where you are weakest is a good idea, since it will give you more time to prep in that area.

There should be no overlap of questions.
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by kidboc1 » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:09 pm
thank you Eric

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by mlane25269 » Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:43 pm
I have all three books myself and I can tell you that they are all very good resources. I find the PS in the Orange book to be a lot more challenging than the purple quantitative book. I bought all three books though because I felt like I needed additional practice.

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by lunarpower » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:28 pm
mlane25269 wrote:I have all three books myself and I can tell you that they are all very good resources. I find the PS in the Orange book to be a lot more challenging than the purple quantitative book. I bought all three books though because I felt like I needed additional practice.
agreed: the DIFFICULTY RANGE is much greater in the yellow o.g. than in either of the supplements, especially on quantitative questions. ironically, there are more quant questions in the yellow book than in the quant supplement! (...and the same for verbal questions in the yellow book vs. the verbal supplement)
therefore, if you want the whole spectrum of difficulty, then you should go with the yellow book first.
if you want easy portability and have to run up a bunch of stairs with the book in your backpack, then go with the supplemental books, as they are much more compact.

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by the way, the quant supplement is green, at least here in the u.s.; the purple book is the verbal one.
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by mlane25269 » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:39 pm
What you should really be concerned with though kidboc1 is which book contains question that most closely resemble the questions on the actual GMAT. I've been getting a lot of mixed answers on this because the questions in the official guide are nothing like some of the questions that I've been getting on the GMATprep practice test software so this is really confusing me now since I don't know what I should concentrate on to maximize my score.