Difficulty level of GMAT official practice exams 5 & 6

Question

I have attempted these exams and found that they are very easy and not at all representative of actual exam. It could give us false impression of our ability.

Anybody else felt it?

Suraj0184 · Answer

I have attempted GMAT Official Mocks 1 and 2. It comprises of questions of all difficulty levels.

Any difference of views?

Do I necessarily need to purchase balance Official Mocks for practice?

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi  manmohit10 ,

Tests 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 have small(er) question pools. In terms of question quality, however, no practice tests are better than the official practice tests.

bb · Answer

Ajitesh is correct. Official tests are the best indicator and predictor of your score on the test day.

However, the additional test packages such as three and four, as well as five and six have extremely limited question bank sizes. You only get 31 questions and quant and 36 in verbal. You can retake the test multiple times but you will only get the same questions over and over. Moreover, the difficulty, especially for the test, six is not high. As the result, because the questions are mostly medium and low difficulty, people have reported multiple times, receiving fairly low scores with as few as five incorrect answers. My theory is that the algorithm adjusts to accommodate for the difficulty of the questions in the database, and as the result penalize you more since you can never get to hire difficulty questions.

However, this isn’t really something you should be very concerned about to worry about because the score you will get regardless of the difficulty of questions should be a fairly accurate score. Or perhaps I would say as accurate as you can get since there is always a degree of variance.

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MartyTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi manmohit10.

What makes you think tests 5 and 6 are easier than the real GMAT? Have you taken the GMAT recently? Is is possible that you are just getting better at finding your way to the answers to GMAT questions with the result that tests 5 and 6 seem easy? Did you find both quant and verbal easy?

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Probably fair to say the Official Mocks are the best representation of the actual exam compared to the other mocks available. Might be worth checking out similar posts for the thoughts others have about it. There is the pressure of a real exam, for example, that no mock can replicate.

TargetMBA007 · Answer

I wonder if 6 is supposed to be easier on verbal or quant?
I took Mock 6 today and got a V45 (Pathetic V44 on Q), with 2 questions wrong. However, 3 of my 4 RC Passages were relatively short. In my last 2 attempts, I scored V40, and I haven't looked at Verbal for a while, so this does make me feel that the Verbal for Mock 6 may be relatively easier. I have been consistently bad at Quant, so cant comment on that

. The fact that the score didnt exceed 45, also seems to concur with bb 's theory that there may be a shortage of more difficult questions.

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