asfandabid wrote:
Dear Mike,
This question, which you have so casually given an F grade, appeared in my GMAT club CAT. I am assuming you would give an F grade to GMAT club too for their selection of questions? I'd love to hear your reply.
Thanks,
Asfandyar.
Dear
asfandabid,
I'm happy to respond.
Here's what I'll say. Every quant question I have seen from the
GMAT Club tests has been superb. I think there are two reasons for this. First of all, it's relatively easy to write good GMAT quant practice questions--as long as the question is unambiguous, has just one right answer, and is not 100% obvious in what it's asking, then it's a reasonably good quant question. More importantly, the genius
Bunuel has vetted everything on the quant side.
On the verbal side, it's a different story. First of all, it's much much harder to write high quality GMAT verbal practice questions. For example, this question flawlessly fits the general format of SC and it ostensibly tests the kinds of things that GMAT SC tests, but it falls short in a number of ways. More than 50% of the SC practices questions I see from private companies are very poor. The official verbal questions are uniformly superb.
MGMAT and
Magoosh have very good questions, and I have great respect for Veritas' questions as well. The quality varies with some others. Similarly, with the
GMAT Club test, there is high variability in the quality of the verbal questions--some are superb, some are so-so, and some are not good. Furthermore, there's no "verbal Bunuel." In fact, it's not even clear to me what kind of one-in-a-million expertise someone would have to have so that person could do for verbal what Bunuel does for math.
So, no, I certainly would not presume to give any kind of grade to the entire collection. Among other things, I haven't gone through all the questions. The most I am willing to give is my opinion on individual questions in isolation, and that's what I have given here.
Does all this make sense?
Mike