waiwai wrote:
I have one question on verbal.
Of all the variety of SC/CR/RC you practiced, which source did you find the difficulty level to be similar to GMAT ?
Namely OG12, Kaplan,
OG-Verbal, 1000series ?
Can you give an approx breakout as to how many were easy and how many were diff for you ? I know its adaptive, but still If I aim to score 750 I should know what I should be expecting.
And on quants : Approx how many questions did you face which you found difficult ? I know since you scored 51 in Q you might be good at it. But still, there might be some which were sitters and some twisted. A breakout will do.
I am scoring 49-50 in quants in the practice tests regularly (with regular 4-5 mistakes, and almost all of them silly), just checking if same level can be achieved in real GMAT.
in my verbal exam, i thought i had screwed up by the time i reached Question 28, cause 3-4 questions around that were so difficult, i couldn't make head or tail of them. Kaplan verbal is more difficult than the actual GMAT, and the 1000 series is a good indicator. i do not know about the
OG. But, for sure the best indicator is the GMAT Prep software.
in quant, i had very similar experiences. in all my practice tests, the most i got was 50, and always with 3-4 stupid mistakes which i should not have made. but in most practice tests, i did not really pace my quant enough, and always finished around 15-20 minutes early. that did not happen on my gmat. i took extra care on each of the first 10 questions, and it was obvious the difficulty was increasing. according to me, there was no question for which i had to think of a method to reach the solution, it was how complex the calculations were and how much time i spent on rechecking. but all of the last 5-6 questions were of decent difficulty level, so that might be an indicator that you've more or less got all correct till then.