mk96 wrote:
MikeScarn wrote:
It looks there will be 100 brand new questions. 46 verbal questions and 54 quantitative questions are never before seen and have not appeared in any previous GMAT Official Prep products.
I, for one, am very much looking forward to taking a look at these 100 new questions.
GMATNinja - hey, how would you rate the level of difficulty of the question provided by GMAC in their advanced book?
Are they really "that" tough as the actual difficult ones thrown by them on test day?
Thanks, please respond.
I'm not a big fan of the
GMAT Advanced book, to be honest. Apparently, Wiley Publishing handed ~1500 retired questions to a contractor, and asked them to pick 300 of them for inclusion in the book. Generally speaking, Wiley doesn't succeed in hiring great people to tackle this type of task, and it shows.
I won't go too crazy with my list of complaints about the book, but the quant categories make very little sense, and the SC questions are overwhelmingly idiom-based, and not at all a reasonable sample of what the exam actually looks like. Basically, the questions were selected based on one person's opinion of what "advanced" means, and that didn't produce a very good result. Also, a substantial proportion of the questions appeared in much older resources (paper tests or old
OG editions), so it's not entirely new.
Is it worth buying? Sure, if you just need more official practice questions, it doesn't hurt to use this one. But it's not fundamentally a good product.
I hope that helps a bit!