Ok I made the thing simple enough trying to answer to your question.
On one hand, for quant side: a tough question is only a simple question wrapped in a more complicated way, formulated to intimidate you and to pick wrong. Nothing more than this. If your foundamentals are really strong you can get right the most difficult questions.
Look at this example:
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Set S contains seven distinct positive integers. What is the standard deviation of S?
1) The range of set S is 6.
2) The average (arithmetic mean) of set S is 24.
It is a really tough question unless you have clear the concepts behind the same.
I'm not a professor, I'm only a diligent student: now the SD is how the elements in a set spread out the mean. If the range is 6 the difference between the first term and the last is always six, no matter what: 1 ---> 7 or 900 ---> 907 tha SD is always the same, so we know all of the distances withinn our set. So is sufficient. the second NO because the average doesn't help us enough.
As you can see if you have strong foundamentals, a difficult question is not a crazy puzzle. It is only like an onion, with different layers in which you have to go down to the core
On the other hand, for verbal part: you are ok because it reflects well the exam; if you are really strong on verbal, then you could achive a 700 score.
People have not a decent score because are obsessed by the quant part but for the GMAC a formula is less important than a truly understand of verbal: tense, logic reasoning and so on. We communicate via words not formulas. So the verba part is more important than quant. (and of course I'm not saying that quant part is NOT important)
In other words: a 45% percentile on verbal, and you pick right only the 60% quant questions right, then you can achive a 700 score (mine is just an example to show you what I'm saying)
Hope now is more clear to you.
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