icandy wrote:
I tell you one more reason.
GMAT
OG and companion books will tell you that there are 800 questions to work from. I say load of bull crap. Many guys who do not have access to more resources think its true. They work on
OG and review books diligently. Guess what, on the quant the GMAT is a whole different animal and to do those 37 questions, many of them unseen type in 75 minutes goes beyond the ability of a test taker. You dont have time to peel the onion during the test. Same with Verbal but only SC seems to be out of sync. CR and RC seem to be fairly close.
GMAT has all reasons to keep the scores low. Test is designed for 68% test takers to score between 400-600 and a median of 550 or so. There is a reason why they want to achieve that and will change the test as needed to keep scores in that range.
You are right -
OG is not enough to prepare you for the GMAT. Sure, its purpose was not to prepare, it does not contain thorough review of concepts tested in the GMAT. Its purpose is to guide you into exam by throwing ton of representative questions. Right? Houston, we got a problem... Bitter truth -
OG is not enough, it lacks a number of concepts regularly tested in the last two years.
GMATprep, free prep tool, goes a little further, containing some concepts not covered in the
OG. Furthermore, GMAT Focus, which you have to pay at least $25, goes a little further than GMATprep with more representative questions. And guess what? GMAT Focus is only for math... Of course...
What is next? GMAT Xyz, which costs you "only" $35?