GMAT Club Guide to the GMAT Official Guide 2016

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The GMAT Club Guide to The - Official Guide - for GMAT Review 2016th Edition The Official Guide is a great resource - it has real GMAT questions, all questions are arranged in order of difficulty, good explanations, etc but it has one major flaw - no way to sample specific questions or ability to target a specific area - for example all CR questions with idioms or all DS questions that deal with geometry. This Guide attempts to correct that flaw (and a little bit more), making Official Guide even better. The latest 2017 version can be found here: gmat-club-guide-to-the-gmat-official-guide-2017ed-229823.html Use this guide to: Find details about every question available in the - Official Guide for GMAT Review Help find specific practice questions and build your custom practice tests that focus on your weak areas Understand difficulty of each question (it is not very linear as you will notice). We have split difficulty into 4 groups (easy, medium, hard, and very hard). This split is based on the percentile of the question difficulty as determined by GMAT Club Timer sessions Explanations are linked to each question for easy reference You can find previous OG 12, 13, 14, and 15 versions here MGMAT Navigator is another/similar tool available from MGMAT 2016-03-23_1626.png

sdlife · Answer

This will be very helpful! Thanks a lot bb. :-D

FacelessMan · Answer

Hi  bb

Under PS Tab, questions 51 to 65 are incorrectly tagged. They belong to DS. Please correct and re-upload the file. I had reported the same issue earlier on the post "Official Guide Quant GMAT Review 2016 Directory". But looks like it has not been fixed yet.

bb · Answer

Thank you. Yes, we still have an issue in the OG directory in the quant forum it seems. I have updated the file here. Welcome any other feedback!

alwaysnewbie · Answer

bb,

I think the below answers need to be corrected in the GMAT Club guide .xls. Please cross-check with the 2016 OG.

Thanks

Bunuel · Answer

Thank you for your feedback.

PS-108 on the forum has different options (from older OG) than in the OG 2016, but the answer (11) is the same.
DS-103 is edited.

bb · Answer

Thank you! It seems GMAC has a number of questions with the same setup/question text but different answer choices, which is interesting in the CR, especially. Why would they do that to questions that have previously been vetted on the actual test?

I have updated the spreadsheet for now. However, we will also create new discussions for OG 2016 specifically with slightly different OA's

gmatlo · Answer

Hello,

Thank you for this useful tool.
I have some issues using it though... It seems that the spreadsheet links directly to "'\Users\Bogdan\Desktop\GMAT CLUB\2008\Projects\Guide to the OG\ Error Log'!$C$6:$G$813" in the pivot table ("Analysis") and thus it doesn't really work.
Aside from this, the error log doesn't seem to include reading comprehension questions? Or maybe I overlooked...

mcelroytutoring · Answer

Hi bb,

Thanks for the helpful resource! I have created a google docs version of the spreadsheet that some of you might also find helpful:

GMAT Club Guide to the Official Guide 2016 - Google Docs Version

MA = my answer
1 = 1st repeat
2 = 2nd repeat

(eliminates need for separate error log)

I have also shortened the links (format / text wrapping / clip) to maximize available screen space and added a column called "Lessons Learned?", among other edits (most of them cosmetic).

mcelroytutoring · Answer

By the way, is there a similar resource available for the 2016 Quantitative and Verbal Review Guides?

StoneOneFour · Answer

Thanks a lot for this, this is great. Does anyone else get an error when trying to refresh the analysis pivot table? Any easy method to fix?

I too would appreciate this if it exists.

jcastiel · Answer

Hi,

Thanks for the great guide!

Only thing that seems to be missing is the Reading Comprehension tab.

There is a tab titled CR+RC, but only the CR questions are featured.

Are you able to repost with RC questions?

Thanks,
Jesse

mvictor · Answer

great..I was using another one from GMAT Prep now, but this one is way better.
thanks.

jcastiel · Answer

Do you have the level of difficulty for each Passage and/or question for the Reading Comprehension?

Thanks!

RubenFernandezCano · Answer

Dear BB

Thank so much for the Excel, is amazing job!! really useful!!

Ruben.

carleethian · Answer

This is really awesome, thanks a lot.

Echoing that this would be extra helpful if it was done with the 2016 OG Quant and Verbal guides!

Manick9 · Answer

The pivot table does not work when trying to refresh the analysis pivot table. Any easy method to fix?.
However it is very useful. Great Work.
This would be extra helpful if it was done with the 2016 OG Quant and Verbal guide as well.

diegocml · Answer

thank you, bb & team!

Are you guys planning on releasing the 2017th edition any time soon?

Cheers!

chuy2256 · Answer

Would love to see a 2017 Official Guide Error log version of this as well. One month into my studies, please say you're in the works right now.

bb · Answer

Thanks for the reminder. I have prepared all the files and spreadsheets this summer but never finished the project. I just put it all together and you can find it here: gmat-club-guide-to-the-gmat-official-guide-2017ed-229823.html

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