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While The Official Guide is an invaluable resource as one of the few sources of GMAC written questions, students should be aware of the best way in which to study with it. Specifically, students must be aware of how to use The Official Guide when also taking a GMAT prep course.

The Official Guide includes methods and strategies for taking the GMAT. However, these methods and strategies will be different from, and sometimes conflict with, the methods and strategies you learn in your course. In order to succeed on the GMAT it is vital that you adopt one set of methods and strategies and stick to them, in order to fully master those strategies. If you jump between different methods, you may be unable to master any of them, which will lead to trouble on test day.

Thus, you should take the methods and strategies you learn in your GMAT course and apply them to the problems in The Official Guide. And when applying these strategies to The Official Guide problems, always make sure to time yourself. Keep in mind that you will have two minutes per quantitative problem on test day, and should therefore give yourself two minutes per problem when using The Official Guide.

Finally, remember that as helpful as the practice questions in The Official Guide can be, ultimately you will be tested in a computer-based format, so don’t underestimate the importance of sufficient practice in that format. Many people find their test-taking skills and comfort level thrown off when moving from paper or book-based questions to the computer based experience, so be sure to mix up your study methods to include online practice tests in addition to studying with books such as The Official Guide.

By following these basic rules when using The Official Guide, you will be using the resources at your disposal to their fullest and will ensure that you are fully prepared for test day.

Bret Ruber
Kaplan GMAT

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GMAT Official Guide for Quantitative Review Second Edition

The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2nd Edition is available from Amazon.com

There are 44 new Problem Solving and 31 new Data Sufficiency Questions (a total of 75 new questions out of 300).

List of Changes:
Problem Solving (PS)
- 4 new easy questions
- 21 new medium questions
- 19 new hard questions
Data Sufficiency
- 13 new easy questions
- 8 new medium questions
- 9 new hard questions

The main issue with the first edition was low question difficulty. This edition addresses the issue slightly, but as you can see, not by much. One issue that was fixed is the total number of questions. The first edition claimed (just like this one) to have 300 questions, but only had 294 – how can you make that mistake in the Official Guide for Quantitative Review? The question split is 176 for PS and 124 for DS.

As to content, changes, it is interesting to see many of the tables and data-interpretation questions go and addition of sequence questions. Also, DS lost many of its arithmetic questions, which were replaced by Word Problems.

Overall – pretty much the same book – would have loved to see more new questions, but $12 for 28 new hard and 29 medium REAL questions is not bad. By the way, the first edition is on sale right now The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review for $6.78!

Here is the full list of new questions for reference:
PS: 1, 2, 7, 41, 56, 60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 102, 103, 108, 112, 117, 131, 135, 142, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 162, 173

DS: 1, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 21, 22, 24, 31, 33, 43, 48, 51, 66, 70, 73, 79, 82, 85, 96, 102, 104, 106, 107, 111, 116, 117, 122