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09 Jan 2026, 23:16
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Anyone else feel GMAT Focus mocks are slightly misleading? Scored consistently higher in official mocks, especially Quant, but the real exam felt more time-pressured and trickier in wording. DI felt closer to mocks, Quant definitely didn’t. Curious if others had the same gap. Got too many wrong in verbal when I was consistently scoring 87+ earlier ???
10 Jan 2026, 14:15
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I feel the same. I think both the OG guide and the official mocks have relatively easier Quant questions. On the real test, the questions felt a bit longer and some had more convoluted wording. That said, I’d say only about 5–7 questions were truly like that; the rest were still on the easier side. That’s why I usually advise people to test themselves using GMAT Club Quant mocks, so they’re prepared for a slightly higher difficulty level.
Most people have reported that Verbal is at a similar level to the mocks, while DI can be a bit hit or miss. In my case, I ended up getting a lot of non-math-based questions, which was something I had never seen in my mocks, so you really need to be prepared for the worst.
Most people have reported that Verbal is at a similar level to the mocks, while DI can be a bit hit or miss. In my case, I ended up getting a lot of non-math-based questions, which was something I had never seen in my mocks, so you really need to be prepared for the worst.
10 Jan 2026, 14:41
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l have heard a number of people comment about the quant specifically. I feel this is in part because it is really hard and expensive to develop GOOD HARD questions (both conidiations have to be met) and as the result GMAC tends to hang on to these for a longer period of time and also there are fewer of these in the question banks so when the OG or GMAT Prep are released, they are targeting someone who is going to score 545 or 565. When you are aiming for 705, the book and the GMAT Practice tests have a limited ability to help or evaluate your level as they are not designed for you. This is esp. true with the mocks 3, 4, 5, and 6 that have a limited question bank but the free question bank in GMAT Prep esp for the exams 1-3 should be more accurate (at least logically).
Anyway, you are correct to notice a difference between the official practice materials and the real exam. This is not purposeful though - this is just because these products are designed for a mass audience, not for the top 1% or 2% of the population.
Not to self-promote GMAT Club tests, but that was the challenge many of the moderators and experts here felt was that there was a lack of harder quant questions available in the official materials (for reasons stated above)
