Official GMAT Review Book Quant Problems and Difficulty Mix

I was able to get a 750 with 50Q, 41V. Making sure you have the basics down and can do the first few easy problems in <30 seconds is helpful. It all comes down to how quickly you can dissect the problem. For the ones that are taking you 5 minutes, are you struggling with setting the problem up? Actually solving the problem? Checking your answer? Once you identify what is taking most of your time, you can work on that aspect.

If you were able to get 49Q in a practice test, there's no reason you can't get 50 / 51Q on the actual exam (assuming you took the practice test under exam-like conditions).

Hi EFTW,

If you took the FULL CAT (including the Essay and IR sections), in a realistic and test-like fashion, then you're remarkably close to your score goal right now. The 'tough' part is that, at this scoring level, the GMAT becomes really 'sensitive' to little mistakes - so if you make too many of them, you just won't be able to hit a 750+. With your Scaled Scores, you also don't have an obvious 'weak spot', so your missing points are likely due to procedural mistakes that you're making (not taking enough notes, doing work 'in your head', etc.). As such, you don't need to practice 'hard' questions, you need to fix the little mistakes that you're making. I suggest that you start with your last CAT and take a good look at every question that you got wrong - ask yourself WHY you got it wrong and what you could have done differently to get it correct. It might be that there are some 'easy' fixes to your situation; it's also possible that you'll need to invest in some new resources and learn some new tactics.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Thanks for the advice.

Mostly both. Dissecting problem takes too long and solving it takes to long. The question that are #160 above are difficult... sometimes I cant even figure a easy way of solving it and take the long route.



Thanks for the advice.

Mostly both. Dissecting problem takes too long and solving it takes to long. The question that are #160 above are difficult... sometimes I cant even figure a easy way of solving it and take the long route.



it was full CAT. I did skip 1/3 of IR, however.

You are definitely correct. I took 20 easy practice problems and still got 2 wrong... and both for misreading questions.

Appreciate the advice, I will probably spend more time on my verbal score up while fool proofing quants.

EFTW

If you end up with a score of Q50/Q51, I would say you should expect 8 to 9 difficult problems similar to the ones you referred to from the Official Guide Quant Review.

Dabral