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is the focus edition harder than the classic gmat?

It all depends on how good you’re at DI. For me, when I attempted the mock for the first time, I took way too long on some of questions and in the end I ran short on time and I couldn’t even attempt a few questions.

It’s really gonna suck to prepare for DI now lol since I think I’m not very good at DI

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I read that they have also made some changes to data sufficiency problems?

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I read that they have also made some changes to data sufficiency problems?

In Focus edition, for quant only Problem Solving questions come and Data Sufficiency questions are included in DI section.

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Hi everyone! I gave the GMAT today (the classic version) and am absolutely dejected by my verbal score. I gave the Manhattan mocks and was scoring around 35-38 in the verbal section, with my overall mock score ranging from 630-640. I was relatively confident in verbal but got an abysmal scaled score of 21 in the official exam I wanted a 650 but verbal brought me down. I still can’t believe the score as I did not score this low in the official prep mocks either did anyone have a similar experience with verbal?

Happened with me as well but not in Verbal but in Quant, I was getting Q49-50 in mocks but got Q45 in main exam and hence fell short of my desired goal.
Will be starting preparation for Focus Edition now, does anyone have any suggestion which resources are good for Focus Edition preparation ?

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Hi all, I am appearing for the Focus Edition on Feb 2nd (day after). I can say I have given close to 3 months of full-fledged prep and used a couple of sources (in addition to OG and the GMAT Club forums). My target score is 655 and above (90th percentile and beyond). However, I am struggling to make sense of my mock scores.

For anyone who’s kind enough to take out the time - would you mind looking at the score breakdown below and help speculate as to why my verbal and quant scores (and hence, the overall) keep stagnating around 555-575? As for DI, I know DS is a weak area for me, but besides that I’m clueless.

PS - the odd 535 and 545 in Magoosh was a bad, below-average attempt on my part due to stress and lack of sleep. So discounting that a little for now.

Any advice/recommendations would be highly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance!

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Hi,
My sincere advise would be to give an official mocks- as they are closest to the real exam.

I got a 555 on my actual exam and was getting 10-20% lower scores in my magoosh mocks.

The mistake that I made was to rationalise the low scores and blame it on the situation/ nerves/ lack of sleep, etc. rather than focusing on what I was doing wrong.

Having said that, my advise would be to focus on quant and DI- as they currently look like your weak areas.

V-81/82 is a decent score
Q- you should target close to 88
DI- target should be above 80

Quant and DI scores indicate that you may be struggling in solving 700+ (hard questions) either conceptually or you are not able to manage time. Please have a detailed look at the error logs of your mocks- that will give you best direction

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Hi, My sincere advise would be to give an official mocks- as they are closest to the real exam. I got a 555 on my actual exam and was getting 10-20% lower scores in my magoosh mocks. The mistake that I made was to rationalise the low scores and blame it on the situation/ nerves/ lack of sleep, etc. rather than focusing on what I was doing wrong. Having said that, my advise would be to focus on quant and DI- as they currently look like your weak areas. V-81/82 is a decent score Q- you should target close to 88 DI- target should be above 80 Quant and DI scores indicate that you may be struggling in solving 700+ (hard questions) either conceptually or you are not able to manage time. Please have a detailed look at the error logs of your mocks- that will give you best direction

Okay, makes sense. I do struggle with 700+ questions in Quant, so I know that’s something that needs work. DI has been a hit and miss for me in all question types except DS, so I’m unable to figure out my areas of strength. . .

Thank you for the input though, this was helpful!

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Hi, My sincere advise would be to give an official mocks- as they are closest to the real exam. I got a 555 on my actual exam and was getting 10-20% lower scores in my magoosh mocks. The mistake that I made was to rationalise the low scores and blame it on the situation/ nerves/ lack of sleep, etc. rather than focusing on what I was doing wrong. Having said that, my advise would be to focus on quant and DI- as they currently look like your weak areas. V-81/82 is a decent score Q- you should target close to 88 DI- target should be above 80 Quant and DI scores indicate that you may be struggling in solving 700+ (hard questions) either conceptually or you are not able to manage time. Please have a detailed look at the error logs of your mocks- that will give you best direction

just wondering how many questions you need to get right to get to 87-88Q? I got 3 questions wrong in my actual Focus exam (4 wrong but turned one from incorrect to correct at the end). And my Quant score ended up at 81.

Thought it would’ve been abit higher with only this many questions wrong

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Really? I’ve been consistently getting 83-84 Q in focus mocks with around 5 wrong(6 actually but I somehow correct 1 at the end)

Does the score gets less in the actual tests?

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I’m not sure about the scoring mechanism itself. But the official mock and actual exam scoring system should be identical.

I got 14 consecutive correct answers, and only 3 incorrect answers in total but still got 81Q :\.

But I might have missed all the hard questions which could have dragged my score down, but didnt think it would have such a big effect.

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Same thing happening to me. I’m losing score over the hard ones

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Can anyone tell me if there are any other free FOCUS mocks other than
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are there any new quant/verbal questions in the OG2023 to OG2022 ? I have the OG 2022 and plan to buy the new DI only ?

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are there any new quant/verbal questions in the OG2023 to OG2022 ? I have the OG 2022 and plan to buy the new DI only ?

Are you buying the physical copy

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DI ebook and online question bank

i have the OG 2022 book so i just dont want to waste money if the questions for quant and verbal are the same in 2022 and 2023 book

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Hi guys what do you recommend for doing the GMAT, I have been practicing the classic version for the last few months, does it change much?

sorry wrong chat

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Hello Team,
I just completed a section from verbal called ’Analyzing passages’ where they explained about the arguments, premises and conclusions e.t.c. Although, i understood the concept i was wondering if i can find set questions to practice it or see more examples on it.
Any recommended source?

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Hi guys! I’m giving the GMAT FE tomorrow, I suck at the data insight section. Is there any way I can manage it within time? And also how much does it affect the total score?

I’m scoring around 82/83 in both quant and verbal