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11 Jun 2009, 00:27
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First of all has there been any research about how much long periods of studying before the tests increases the score? The reason for asking this is that, after reading just one short “refresher” book, there seams to be some basic concepts that you need to know. If you just know these concepts there seams to be very little you actually can do to increase your score by more than maybe 10-20 points. I might be wrong, and please correct me if I am, but is not this test pretty much about intelligence, and being very used to handling numbers, once you mastered the basics? For instance how do you practise for CR questions? I got no help what so ever from the book regarding those. Sure it’s the ones I have the easiest time solving but there seams to be very little one can do to increase ones chances on those.
Second of all, how tough are the so called “750+ questions”? When I did of the official preparation tests (scoring 650) before doing any studies/refreshers I did not encounter any very tough (intelligence wise) questions. Most of those I missed where “hard” because I did not know the formulas involved (quantitative section), or because I did not understand the text entirely (verbal section) since English is not my native language, not because they where logically hard. Do the really hard quantitative questions involve something in particular (like advanced probability for instance) or do they make them hard by making them more time consuming (meaning that anyone could solve them in 4-5 minutes but only the best test takers can solve them in 2 minutes). When I looked at a practice exam in the Mc Graw & Hill book one question asked about the 23rd decimal of 23/24. Are some of the tough questions on the real GMAT like that?
Christoffer Collin, Sweden
Second of all, how tough are the so called “750+ questions”? When I did of the official preparation tests (scoring 650) before doing any studies/refreshers I did not encounter any very tough (intelligence wise) questions. Most of those I missed where “hard” because I did not know the formulas involved (quantitative section), or because I did not understand the text entirely (verbal section) since English is not my native language, not because they where logically hard. Do the really hard quantitative questions involve something in particular (like advanced probability for instance) or do they make them hard by making them more time consuming (meaning that anyone could solve them in 4-5 minutes but only the best test takers can solve them in 2 minutes). When I looked at a practice exam in the Mc Graw & Hill book one question asked about the 23rd decimal of 23/24. Are some of the tough questions on the real GMAT like that?
Christoffer Collin, Sweden
11 Jun 2009, 01:02
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11 Jun 2009, 01:24
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Before I did anything else regarding the test I took one of those practice tests, scoring 650. Since I had not brushed up my high school math I had no idea of how to solve some questions involving exponents and such (which Im able to solve now). Therefore I may not have encountered any really tough questions.
I will save the second test for the day before I take the test, hence my question.
I will save the second test for the day before I take the test, hence my question.
