Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
Apr 2711:00 AM EDT
-12:00 PM EDT
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors
macjas
Joined: 09 May 2012
Last visit: 30 Jul 2015
Posts: 306
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 100
Affiliations: UWC
Location: Canada
Schools: Rotman '15 (A) Schulich '15 (M)
GMAT 1: 620 Q42 V33
GMAT 2: 680 Q44 V38
GPA: 3.43
WE:Engineering (Media/Entertainment)
Products:
29 May 2012, 08:41
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hello, I wanted to know how the difficulty levels in the Q Bank correlate to actual GMAT question difficulty. For instance, do the hard questions in quants represent questions in the Q45 and above? So far the quant questions that I've done in the hard category don't seem too challenging so I was just wondering what the correlation is? Thanks!
29 May 2012, 21:25
Kudos
Bookmarks
macjas
Hi macjas,
Unfortunately, it's hard to judge exact difficulties, and we're constantly gathering statistical data to refine out accuracy. That said, we don't have hard-and-fast guidelines for what is "high" difficulty--we make a rough estimate based on the concepts tesed and the proportion of students that get it right.
Hope this helps!
macjas
Joined: 09 May 2012
Last visit: 30 Jul 2015
Posts: 306
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 100
Affiliations: UWC
Location: Canada
Schools: Rotman '15 (A) Schulich '15 (M)
GMAT 1: 620 Q42 V33
GMAT 2: 680 Q44 V38
GPA: 3.43
WE:Engineering (Media/Entertainment)
Products:
29 May 2012, 22:05
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hey Eli,
Thanks for the prompt response. The Q Banks are still IMO good practice: very helpful for building stamina and pace and just overall practice for those need to do a lot of problems. I tend to make a lot of silly quant mistakes and I've been out of school for five years now. Practising many quant problems, even the easy ones, helps me improve my speed and accuracy. One thing though, I wish Kaplan had put some more time into categorizing the problems. For instance, it would have been nice to have categories such as Inequalities, Absolute Values, Percent, Ratios etc. instead of the Algebra and Arithmetic which are very broad categories. Another suggestion is that the user should be allowed to see which questions on a quiz are easy/medium/hard. For example when I create mixed difficulty quizzes, the review/analysis only tells me how many of each type were in the quiz and my percentage accuracy. I would be good to see which questions fall in which difficulty level.
Thanks for the prompt response. The Q Banks are still IMO good practice: very helpful for building stamina and pace and just overall practice for those need to do a lot of problems. I tend to make a lot of silly quant mistakes and I've been out of school for five years now. Practising many quant problems, even the easy ones, helps me improve my speed and accuracy. One thing though, I wish Kaplan had put some more time into categorizing the problems. For instance, it would have been nice to have categories such as Inequalities, Absolute Values, Percent, Ratios etc. instead of the Algebra and Arithmetic which are very broad categories. Another suggestion is that the user should be allowed to see which questions on a quiz are easy/medium/hard. For example when I create mixed difficulty quizzes, the review/analysis only tells me how many of each type were in the quiz and my percentage accuracy. I would be good to see which questions fall in which difficulty level.
