GMAC released a new preparation software GMATPrep 2.0 in April 2012. Around the same time they released the question pack 1, which includes 200 quant, 180 verbal and 24 integrated reasoning questions. The pack provides a set of very good official questions and I highly recommend everyone to practice these questions. Pros 1. Official questions 2. Almost all of the questions are new and were never released before 3. Computer based practice 4. Includes explanations similar to OG for all questions 5. Statistics available to track your progress Cons 1. The default question pack can not be deselected or deactivated. You will need to go through it once before you start working on the QPack 1 2. The Reading Comprehension questions in GMAT Prep 2 practice module are not grouped with a given passage. If you select 5 questions to practice, you may end up working on 5 different passages. This is not helpful at all! The problem could be solved by providing a separate slider to select the number of passages to practice with. In this way all the questions for a given passage will be grouped together, just like the exam. I haven't tried the integrated reasoning, but I think similar grouping mechanism should apply to IR too! 3. Relatively more quant questions are available in the QPack 1 than the verbal questions. If you take a typical exam as a reference, there are 5.4 times the number of questions available in a typical GMAT exam (200 vs 37). On the other hand, the verbal questions are 4.4 times a typical exam (180 vs 41). If you consider the extraneous questions bundled with the passages, the difference will be even higher. 4. Although it was claimed to contain new and unseen questions, it does contain few questions that were released before or were available online . 5. The progress statistics is limited to last 6 sessions. Any practice before that will not be shown in the progress tracker. Question Type Analysis Since the RC questions are not grouped with the passage I was having difficulty doing them. I stopped after trying few of them. So no analysis is available on RC yet. I will take the exam before June. So I did not do the IR questions as well. If someone can provide the analysis, I will be happy to include them. (This section will be updated) Image PS Image DS Image SC Image CR Observations 1. SC questions are very old and not so difficult. I assumed that the question ID reflects the creation time of the question. I found that the SC questions in QPack1 range from 1000 to 3000, whereas the default set contains questions in the 7000 range. See the note below for an explanation how this inference was drawn. 2. Although difficulty did not vary much for CR, the quality of the questions are very good. 3. Few PS questions are as difficult as the OG 13 questions. 4. DS questions are of similar difficulty as in the the OG 13. List of Questions I prepared a list of questions from the question pack 1. I tried to add a title whenever possible. It will help you track questions and/or correction any mistake I made in categorizing the questions. I may have made some mistakes identifying the SC questions. Feel free to correct me in a comment or post a corrected version of the XLS. (Attachement: Questions XLS . Will be attached later) Inference on the Question Order and Difficulty Each question in the QPack 1 and the default set (the 90 questions that are available in GMATPrep for free) has an unique 5 digit question number. For example, a SC question ID would look like VSC01783. The ID VSC01783 says, the question is from 1) Verbal pool - V 2) Sentence Correction sub pool - SC 3) ID number - 01783 Similarly, examples of PS, DS, and CR are QPS05678, QDS04789, and VCR03498, respectively. Grouped questions have a little different format. A group of reading comprehension questions is numbered from VRC00198-01 to VRC00198-05, in which the -XX part indicates question number related to the passage 00198. Integrated reasoning questions may come in group as well as in standalone flavors. An Integrated reasoning questions ID starts with an IIR tag. Interestingly, the IIR IDs are between two to three digits, for example IIR00034, IIR00125, etc. From this fact, I assumed that the question ID reflects the sequence in which it was created. For example, I assumed that question VSC01783 is older that question VSC0345. As I said before, the SC questions in QPack1 range from 1000 to 3000, whereas the default set contains SC questions in the 7000 range. If my assumption is correct, it can be inferred that the SC questions in QPack 1 are older than the default set. On the other hand, the quant questions appear to be newer. All the question numbers used in the section are randomly created by me. I also assumed that the 5-digit ID number has one more part in it. I think the first three digits indicate an exam code and the last two digits represent the question number within the exam. For example, VSC01783 means Verbal - Sentence Correction - Exam Code 017 - Question 83 and VRC00198-01 means Verbal - Reading Comprehension - Exam Code 001 - Passage 98 - Question 01. However, this assumption is not needed for the inference above. FAQ 1. Should I buy it? Despite the problems I mentioned, the questions are very good and come with official explanations. Since practicing the official materials is the best way to practice, in my opinion, the pack is worth buying. 2. Where and how to purchase it? To purchase you will need to go to mba.com and purchase it like any other online product. At the end of your purchase you will be given the download option and a code. See the image below. download.jpg After you double click the .qsp file it opens in GMATPrep. You need to click activate and enter the code that you received after the purchase. activate2.jpg 3. Can I use the question pack 1 in multiple computers? According to a response by GMAC, yes, you can use the question pack in up to three computers. However, you won’t be able to synchronize your responses. I requested the GMAC to release an online version to resolve the problem. 4. Why are the RC questions not grouped? I sent an email about it. The representative replied saying that they are looking into the issue. 5. How do I know which questions were available in the default set and skip those during practice? I will post an XLS file containg the question ids and which set they belong to. You may use it to determine the group. The questions are presented sequentially as well. So you can just skip first 15 question in each set to avoid working on the default questions. GMATPrep Tour Here is how the installed content page looks after the Q Pack 1 installation. installed-content.jpg Note that it is possible to "turn off" or deactivate the Q Pack 1. But it is not possible to turn off the default questions. Here is a screen shot of the more option page. available_quesions.jpg I thought I will be able to select question pack here. But unfortunately that's not possible. So you are pretty much stuck with the default set. There is no way to get rid of it. The statistics is provided as a percent of questions answered correctly. summary1.jpg (This post is an enhanced version of the log I posted earlier.)

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@ fozzy , i have not gone through the posts in details, but i din't find any repeats in the verbal section. But my opinion is based upon my memory not by an written data.

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Great explanation. Thank you very much

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To add on the initiative, I would like to highlight few points.

Currently, I am engaged with SC/CR questions of the QP1.

In my opinion, the SC questions are very easy with just 5-10% of the SC questions lying on the 700-800 level.

However, the CR questions may give you an impression of the same difficulty as the case with difficulty level of last OG questions.

But, since you get a software in which time will kill you, this should be a premium buy for those considering practicing more official questions.

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Can anyone tell how do I make a practice problem set with RC questions from a same Reading passage.

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Do we have GMATPrep Question Pack 1 questions - anywhere on this forum?

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Do we have GMATPrep Question Pack 1 questions - anywhere on this forum?

You have to buy it through GMAC.

I don't think GMAC allows discussion or posting of those questions.

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Thanks for the review, very informing.

Question: Is the whole thing with RC fixed? If I decide to do a drill on RC, will I get different RC passages for each question?

Question 2: Is there a way to remove all number of times I have reviewed a question? I have accidently hit "Retry" when I wanted to just simply review the question, which gives me a whole new "category" if you will, in the dropdown menu

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What do I need to do if I have to install GMAT Prep EP1 and QP1 again on a formatted computer?
I think i have lost the download file too in the process of formatting

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Just download the GMATPrep and the remaining files and install it again. You will need the activation code that GMAC emails you for both Question Pack 1 and Exam Pack 1.

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Just download the GMATPrep and the remaining files and install it again. You will need the activation code that GMAC emails you for both Question Pack 1 and Exam Pack 1.

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If I enter the code again, wont the application throw an error that the code has been used already?

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No, you can reuse the activation code. I have done this several times to move the exam pack 1 from my mac to the pc.

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Hi Ankur,

Can you please let me know if you are aware of the relative difficulty level of questions in the GMAT prep question pack 1? I see that you have attempted the GMAT 3 times and assume that you might be able to correlate the questions in question pack to the actual questions on the GMAT exam (w.r.t to the difficulty level)?

I have taken a couple of quiz questions (20% Easy, 40% Medium, 40% Hard) from the question pack pool and found that the questions are not very convoluted and with right set of concepts in place should be easily doable.

Though i understand difficulty to be a relative term, can I at least safely infer that the questions on the actual GMAT will be at the same difficulty level and the questions on question pack can give you a safe understanding of how you are expected to perform on the D-Day?

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What do I need to do if I have to install GMAT Prep EP1 and QP1 again on a formatted computer?
I think i have lost the download file too in the process of formatting

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Vijay,

Questions in the Question Pack 1 are very much in line with the real GMAT questions. Further, the two tests in the Exam Pack 1 are also very close to what you will encounter in the real exam.

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hello everyone!!! Nice to have found this thread!

I have a question.Can someone tell me how many questions out of the 404 are medium or hard? Does the software tell you this?

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I have a question.Can someone tell me how many questions out of the 404 are medium or hard? Does the software tell you this?

Yes, it does. For example, if you select "all questions" (494, because this set will include the initial 90 questions), you'll be able to see the number of "easy" questions, the number of "medium" questions, and the number of "hard" questions. The total comes to 348 (again, out of 494).

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I have a question.Can someone tell me how many questions out of the 404 are medium or hard? Does the software tell you this?

Thank you very much for your quick reply!!

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Please see the attached screenshot of GMATPrep Question Pack 1 that shows the distribution of easy, mediium and hard questions in all of the different question types tested on the GMAT.

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Dabral,

Could you please tell me what is the difference b/w practice mode and exam mode?

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In the study mode the software gives you the answer and explanation right after you submit the answer, whereas in the exam mode you answer one question after another and only after you have completed the entire set then only it displays the answer and explanations.

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thank you very much mr dabral!!! This doesn't get more detailed

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