math difficulty level

[saadiagha]

hey guys

just wanted to ask a very general questions, I hope this is the correct forum to post it in, but I was going through the OG quant review, and found that the first 80 questions were quite easy (barring a few difficult ones of course). However, the next 70 questions seem to be much more difficult, including more integration in the word problems, and more gaps in the questions. I was wondering if anyone knew what 'level' questions the first 80 are, compared to the last part of the book?

[Jim@StratusPrep]

The question are divided relatively evenly across easy, medium and hard. They profess (for the most part) in difficulty levels.

[brianlange77]

hey guys
just wanted to ask a very general questions, I hope this is the correct forum to post it in, but I was going through the OG quant review, and found that the first 80 questions were quite easy (barring a few difficult ones of course). However, the next 70 questions seem to be much more difficult, including more integration in the word problems, and more gaps in the questions. I was wondering if anyone knew what 'level' questions the first 80 are, compared to the last part of the book?

Good question -- take a look at the quant chart on this page (https://www.mba.com/the-gmat/gmat-scores ... means.aspx). You could do some general back of envelope math (# of question / # number of questions in book to get to the percentile ranking.)

The bigger thing I'd offer/suggest is for you to find a good practice test or two that will allow you to get rich diagnostics to understand your performance and where to focus going forward.

Ping me with more thoughts/questions.

-brian

[Tommy Wallach]

Hey Saadiagha,

The last thing that's worth mentioning here is that difficulty is, to some extent, a relative issue. I have a lot of students who become really obsessed with solving only difficult questions, and then they continue to make silly arithmetical/technique errors on easier questions. So as other instructors have suggested, make sure that you're doing questions that are relevant to what you'll see on the test. If you're scoring a 600, focus on questions from 500-700, not 700-800, until you are NAILING the questions in the correct range. Then you can move on to harder ones.

Also, don't become preoccupied with difficulty while studying/taking the test. If it's hard for you, it's a hard question!

-t