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The reality of the test is that it starts with medium and easy questions and if you can’t get through those efficiently, you will never get to the hard ones... it is always much better return on investment of your time to focus on the easy and medium questions.

There’s often the misconception that if you can solve hard ones, you can automatically do the medium and easy ones but the goals of easy and medium questions are different from the hard ones. Your goal was easy and medium is to solve them quickly and correctly to save time for the hard questions whereas hard questions require more methodical and unusual approach and time so these are ultimately two different types of questions and approaches that should be equally visited.
People struggle to realize this. For 15 years now, I still hear people need to solve hard questions, searching only them , to reach a considerable score.

The reality is the other way around!!
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What is your current sectional score in Quant?

Do you have any data on your current accuracy % in Easy, Medium and Hard questions, respectively?

bb has laid out the principles very clearly above. A more specific suggestion will likely depend on where you are right now.

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I've been preparing for the past 4 months now and have started with Sectional tests for each section. I'm from a non-engineering background and have difficulty with the quant section. I feel like I've been focusing too much on hard questions and that in turn is hampering medium question accuracy. What do you guys suggest and how to tackle this? Only one month left to D - Day. Thanks.
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Hi ShreyTandonn,

I’m glad you recognized the flaw in focusing only on hard questions. The best way to move forward is to take a topical approach to your quant prep. Start with easy questions, then progress to medium, and finally hard. This ensures you build a strong foundation before tackling the more difficult problems.
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Yeah I'm averaging 14 - 16/21. I'm still getting the hard questions wrong though. Easy accuracy is 100% with medium on the lines of 85-90% accuracy. Hard questions are just pure guesswork to be honest.
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What is your current sectional score in Quant?

Do you have any data on your current accuracy % in Easy, Medium and Hard questions, respectively?

bb has laid out the principles very clearly above. A more specific suggestion will likely depend on where you are right now.

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Hi Guys,

I've been preparing for the past 4 months now and have started with Sectional tests for each section. I'm from a non-engineering background and have difficulty with the quant section. I feel like I've been focusing too much on hard questions and that in turn is hampering medium question accuracy. What do you guys suggest and how to tackle this? Only one month left to D - Day. Thanks.
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Hi, thanks for your reply.

It seems to me that you may still have some gaps in Quant topics. I would suggest that you should practice question one topic at a time, and try to get your accuracy up to more than 90% in medium questions across topics. Imo it will be a better investment of your time.

In addition to what people have advised above, another GMAT Club Youtube video may also provide you with some perspectives on GMAT Focus scoring:


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Yeah I'm averaging 14 - 16/21. I'm still getting the hard questions wrong though. Easy accuracy is 100% with medium on the lines of 85-90% accuracy. Hard questions are just pure guesswork to be honest.
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What is your current sectional score in Quant?

Do you have any data on your current accuracy % in Easy, Medium and Hard questions, respectively?

bb has laid out the principles very clearly above. A more specific suggestion will likely depend on where you are right now.
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Try to push the accuracy for medium questions higher. It will not only improve the score, but build confidence and may be strengthen the foundation for hard questions.

All the best!
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Hi Guys,

I've been preparing for the past 4 months now and have started with Sectional tests for each section. I'm from a non-engineering background and have difficulty with the quant section. I feel like I've been focusing too much on hard questions and that in turn is hampering medium question accuracy. What do you guys suggest and how to tackle this? Only one month left to D - Day. Thanks.
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