Changes in the difficulty levels in Quant and Verbal Forums

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Changes in the difficulty levels in Quant and Verbal Forums:
Transitioning from 3-level to 7-level Difficulty System

Hello everyone,

We have exciting news to share! After listening to your feedback, we have decided to implement a significant change to our Quant and Verbal forums.

Previously, our difficulty system was based on three levels: Sub 600 Level, 600-700 Level, and 700+ Level. While this system served us well, we understood that our members could benefit from a more detailed and granular breakdown.

Therefore, we are thrilled to announce the transition to a 7-level difficulty system. The new levels will be as follows:

Sub 500 Level
500-600 Level
600-650 Level
650-700 Level
700-750 Level
750-800 Level
800+ Level

This evolution of our system was inspired by your requests. It became clear that a more precise categorization of questions would serve you better in your learning journey. The new system will allow us to sort and categorize questions with a greater degree of precision, which will, in turn, enhance your learning and preparation process.

You can now sort questions using dropdowns in the PS/DS/SC/CR forums to filter difficulties by these levels:

* You can also combine the difficulty level filter with other filters, such as Type and Source, to get an even more granulated list of questions.

As well as in our Questions Bank:

In addition, you can access a specific difficulty level in a forum by clicking the respective tag:

The new difficulty level system has also been implemented in the Forum Quiz, offering enhanced flexibility and the ability to target specific questions.

Here are the detailed difficulty level questions by forums:

Problem Solving:

Data Sufficiency:

Sentence Correction:

Critical Reasoning:

Go ahead and leverage our new 7-level difficulty system in the Quant and Verbal forums for a more personalized learning journey.

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bb · Answer

Thank you Bunuel! One more update/announcement related to the update if difficulties:

The new difficulty system system has also been added in the forum quiz, allowing more flexibility and targeting specific questions.

Good luck on your GMAT!

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mysterymanrog · Answer

Great changes guys! I suspect LSAT CR will compose much of the 750+ category

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GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Interesting. Can imagine many people being curious to see which questions made the 800+ tag!

0Lucky0 · Answer

I would just suggest one thing: you know, it's much better when changes as giant as these are announced in advance so that users can prepare themselves for the changes. Just a suggestion.

bb · Answer

Thank you for the suggestion. I appreciate it…. How would you prepare to this change? Sorry if it has disrupted some thing. I’m just trying to understand. Thx.

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Archit3110 · Answer

its a good feature to have , but it will be great if similar feature was also extended to RC and IR is tagged to the forum list of practise question bank..

bb · Answer

I have some ideas for RC improvement.

IR is tricky however. Let’s wait until the new format is announced so we have a better sense of which IR question types will be in the new format. Maybe it will be all of them but may be only some… the annoying side of IR is that some questions have sub questions and it makes it challenging to calculate the difficulty or even have a timer… Sid may have to be correct incorrect type of thing for the time being. Anyone has any better ideas? 🤷‍♂️

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poojaarora1818 · Answer

Hi,

Thank you so much for making such changes. And it would be great if you bring the same changes to the RC section too. But, I have a ques are any new ques also being added to the list or the list of ques would remain the same?

Thanks!

0Lucky0 · Answer

Well, It takes a small amount of time getting used to small changes and a big amount of time getting used to big changes.

Disrupted?, yes, absolutely! But I will only find out the level of disruption after using this for a few days so will see. But that's alright, I think I am good at coming up with out of box solutions to problems so let me try on this.

So, I think difficulty levels have been changed in the below manner: Old "Sub 600" ==> New "400, 500" Old "600-700" ==> New "600, 650" Old "700+" ==> New "700, 750, 800" Is this accurate?

Edit: Yea, so the disruption is potentially major, don't know the whole extent yet, still checking. But you see, I make all my notes and error logs according to the difficulty level of a question so now, the old notes are going to be incompatible with the new ones. Will see if I can figure out a way to integrate the two.

Rahulbasu007 · Answer

Awesome update. It gives me more control and precision on setting the difficulty level of the questions, especially in the forum quiz section

0Lucky0 · Answer

Alright, so I did some digging and figured out how these difficulty levels have been changed. So this is how you can compare the two:
Old "Sub 600" ==> New "400"!
Old "600-700" ==> New "500, 600, 650"!
Old "700+" ==> New "700, 750, 800"!

For anyone trying to integrate their old stuff with the new stuff, this is how to do it.

Cheers.

saswat1987 · Answer

Thanks a lot Bunuel and bb for your hard work and efforts...

This will really help all the GMAT aspirants to track their progress and improve their score gradually...

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