rahulraao wrote:
But I wonder....whether the actual GMAT will have quant problems as tough as the ones in GMAT Prep? I hope not!!
It'll be a mixture, depending on how you perform on the test itself. Remember that the GMAT is adaptive, which means the next question's level of difficulty depends on how you did previously. Usually the first question you get is moderate diffculty, then if you get it right, the next one will be harder and the process goes on until you get a question you can't answer, then it goes back one level. However, this will be done several times, so people who guessed and got the question right by fluke, will not be able to capitalise again the next time a question of similar difficulty comes up later. You also do not need to be obsessed with the first question. Even if you got it wrong, there's still plenty of time to make things right. All you have to do is to avoid more mistakes and move up the curve.
Finally, the score is not determined by how many questions you got wrong. It's a wrong conception that if you get many wrong answers, your quant score will be low. It all depends. If you consistently get many intermediate and easy questions right, and the bulk of the questions you make mistakes on come from the diffficult pool, then obviously you will score better than someone who got all the answers for the easy pool right, but got most of his/her answers for the intermediate/difficult pool wrong.