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Ofcial Guide (10th ed): Are verbal q's rep. of real thing? 11 Aug 2003, 19:27
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I was just wonering whether the verbal questions in the Official Guide
(10th ed) are representative (in terms of difficulty) of the real test.

Also, I have heard that the real math questions are somewhat harder than
the questions in the official guide. Is this true.

If anyone replies, can you specify when you took your test.

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Ofcial Guide (10th ed): Are verbal q's rep. of real thing? 12 Aug 2003, 12:04
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i took it july 14th and would say the math is much more challenging on the real gmat, but the verbal is pretty similar to what you see in the book.
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Ofcial Guide (10th ed): Are verbal q's rep. of real thing? 13 Aug 2003, 17:46
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can you recommend any study material that compares with real gmat-math? i thought OG math were real gmat questions. if they are, looks like the math has had an increasing difficulty trend
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Ofcial Guide (10th ed): Are verbal q's rep. of real thing? 13 Aug 2003, 18:16
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https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1889

I had 44 on math and found the OG math to be similar to the real test 7/19/03.
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Ofcial Guide (10th ed): Are verbal q's rep. of real thing? 13 Aug 2003, 22:05
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S007r ...From my experience, the verbal section was pretty similar to the OG, except the passages in RC were much longer, and the SC also has much larger underlined sections than those in the book. But the underlying concepts that are tested were pretty much same. I'd say the verbal is way more representative than the quant section!

I think what JP means when he says the actual test is similar to the quant section of the OG, is that you will not find any question types that haven't been covered in the OG (except for a few like prob. combinations etc.), and the concepts that are tested in the OG are actually what are tested on the real thing, though questions on the real thing might be slightly longer and include a few more steps.

I have worried over the quant section of the test myself, I've decided to strenghten my basics and just stick to the OG quant concepts!
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