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im a banking exam aspirant can i get some advance tips to improve my reasoning

I have no idea what the banking exam is …. Is it similar to the GMAT? Or why are you asking questions about the banking exam on the GMAT forum?

Best suggestion to prove your reasoning is to get a book on critical reasoning. It’s pretty easy as far as improvements go

ok thank you i thought i can get some tips or something nevermind

Does anyone any idea about UN online Volunteering services? And does it impact our resume?

did anyone notice perchance that GMAT Prep Focus questions are verbally more difficult than the rest?

Yes, I get the same feeling, but I am not sure that is it just me or is that a general thing?

R1 vs R2 - chances for the same GMAT score, is there any existing thread on this, wanted to understand more about the prospects.

ak898989, we have a calculator that takes round into consideration. You can see how your chances go up/down as a result

I am looking into buying materials from Manhatten Prep. Is the Self Study Toolkit worth it? I do not own any learning materials yet and I am planning on doing the Focus Edition in ~2,5 months. Is this kit worth it over the "All the GMAT Strategy Guide Set", which is ~$200 cheaper?

The tour includes $100 worth of official tests plus tax so it’s probably worth $120.
I’m not sure if you value the navigator and some of the organizational tools they will provide. The additional value is more of streamlining your studying and make it more effective rather than giving you tools or materials.

also, keep in mind that the new Manhattan books are coming out in one month. The new edition.

I just noticed that the two kit also has additional books, foundation of GM and foundation of GM verbal. I would say the value is very close so you may as well buy the tool kit if you were looking to buy all of those books anyway… Unless you already have the official exams. Again the caveat is that the new book edition is coming in one month.

can someone explain difference between gmat club quiz and gmat focus tests? seems quite similar.

You are not incorrect. After introducing adaptive algorithm to the quiz a month ago, the differences are fewer and fewer.

Here is something: gmat-club-tests-vs-forum-quiz-differences-411572.html

thanks. I’m wondering, how much can we trust DI questions posted? It’s common knowledge that only Verbal from OG resources are useful, other not too much. What about DI? Should we use OG as well?

So the whole thing that people claim that you should only use the official verbal questions is way overblown.

Yes if you have a choice, use the official questions. It’s an easy choice.

However, probably millions of people have used unofficial verbal questions and scored quite well. I am personally the epitome of it. I was too poor to afford an official guide probably too stupid to download it from the Internet. As the result, I have prepared only with Kaplan questions from their Gmail books. The only official questions I’ve seen were from the gmat prep exams. I took four tests today is the number of verbal questions from the official sources I have seen.

It was the difference. There’s definitely a difference that you can spot in some questions. Not at all but the harder ones you can spot it… And still, being a non-native speaker, I still got 96% tile in verbal. No OG.

People blame unofficial questions, people blame a lot of things. It’s super easy to do but it’s just an excuse that that avoids the real truth which is it’s all about your effort. You just have to know the concepts and focus on that instead of solving hundreds and thousands of questions. A lot of people get stuck in the loop of solving so many questions and then they forget all underlying concepts. So if you are taking a course from a prep company and they have unofficial questions, I don’t think it’s the end of the world. I don’t think Manhattan books or questions are bad even though they are unofficial….

I’m sure for the integrated reasoning and data insights some genius will also come up with the concept that you can only use official questions. Can that hard to argue against because the official questions are the most expensive ones. However, if you’ve blown through all the official guide questions and nothing is working, I would recommend stopping and looking at what you can do better because if you solve 100 questions, solving 1000 is not gonna make a big difference, Sometimes makes no difference sometimes it hurts. Try to solve a few questions as you can get away with is my recommendation.

The other myth is people only wanting the 2024 questions and not the old ones. I laugh at it because all of the 2024 questions are actually super old from exams that were taken about 20-25 years ago. This is not LSAT where you get last year‘s questions. This is again the reason why you should not put your trust into questions but into the concepts. If you have strong concepts, you can solve any question.

thanks. Nope, actually I haven’t started DI yet. Soon will start. Just want to understand how to approach it cause it’s my biggest weakness in the exam.

I think everyone is trying to crack this nut. I am really waiting for the Manhattan books. I may be overblowing and will be disappointed just like I’ve been disappointed with the official guide that has maybe 30 new questions out of 900

but I hope maybe Manhattan comes up with some thing as a strategy…

true story. What’s the source for GMAT Focus Prep? Is it official questions people face on the exam? Cause I feel they’re quite different from OG.