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hi everyone,

I am starting to study for the GMAT exam. As I am not aiming for a 700+ but rather a 680 I do not want to lose time with learning some concepts that will not appear frequently considering my objective. So I would like to know what kind of questions are the more scarce for the Quand and the Verbal section

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hi everyone,

I am starting to study for the GMAT exam. As I am not aiming for a 700+ but rather a 680 I do not want to lose time with learning some concepts that will not appear frequently considering my objective. So I would like to know what kind of questions are the more scarce for the Quand and the Verbal section

Thank you in advance for your answers,

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Hi Julien,

680 is a score almost as good a s 700; securing this score will also require you to thoroughly study almost all the required concepts. However, if you want to leave a few topics you may leave some of them is quant and a few scarce question types in Verbal.

Scarce topics in quant: Permutation and combinations, advanced geometry/ mensuration

Scarce topics in verbal: CR flaw questions, CR logical parallelism questions, RC tone questions. Apart from these its really hard to say which question types are scarce. Almost everything in Verbal is interrelated.

To sum up though the above topics are a little scarce, but they could show up in your test at crucial points. In fact the questions from the less frequently tested topics could be really easy. I suggest that you go through all the concepts tested on GMAT, but do a good deal of practice on the frequently asked question types such as weaken/ strengthen in CR, arithmetic/ number properties in Quant, etc..

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Thank you very much Vercules. this is exactly what I wanted to know. For sure, I'll try to study everything.

Have a nice day,

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In addition to Vercules' comments - Magoosh put together a really impressive article on the frequency of GMAT Quant concepts. They went through a number of tests and kept track of the types of questions they saw and put together a breakdown.

While it would certainly benefit you to go over all of the basics, this gives you an idea of the types of questions they encountered the most over the course of a few tests.

https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/breakdown- ... frequency/
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this is great !!!

thank you so much for this Ryan !

Another question that I was wondering was:

Well, I'm gonna take the diagnostic tomorrow. So after that, should I focus my studies on the concepts I missed or should I study all the books of MGMAT and start with the first ?

Thank you very much for your advice,

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Happy to help!

The first time I went through the MGMAT guides, I felt like I made some progress but not nearly as much as I did after Total GMAT Math and then the MGMAT Guides, but that's different for everyone- I see plenty of people who can jump right into the MGMAT guides. You may be able to sit down and, right away, take a lot away from the MGMAT guides as they're a great resource. I'd recommend starting with the books and working on the problems from there. If your plan is to go through all of the MGMAT books anyway - what good is a diagnostic right now? You're better off going through your books and then working on the problems. Once you do that, you'll be able to see which problems are still hazy after going through your book set and hone those through re-review.
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If you need free video explanation from Official guide 10-13, quant review etc you can check out Dabrals' gmat quantum site it has free video explanations

https://www.gmatquantum.com/og13th/
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