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I went back and checked, and noticed that they say "under an hour" - I will probably purchase these once I get through the official guide, and could drop an update here once I have more clarity!
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Have you heard of the GMAC focus quant practice quizzes that you can purchase?
ScottTargetTestPrep Are you referring to these? https://www.mba.com/exam-prep/gmat-offi ... e-practice
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Moving forward, I aim to include SC as a part of my daily routine (I am terrified of this, to be honest), and take up more non-official questions from the GMAT Forum
I am afraid that solving unofficial questions (especially in SC) is not a recommended practice at all.
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I second what Ashish has written above. Questions by third parties are almost always either too simplistic or too convoluted, sometimes with elements of each on display in the same question, and I could provide a seemingly endless list of examples. The following two come to mind from recent threads I have been following:

1) The frog...

2) Trying to learn...

At best, such questions are pale imitations of their official counterparts; at worst, they can be flat-out wrong and mislead the people who come across them to study.

To keep this post constructive, I would invite you to download a master spreadsheet of 800+ official SC questions that have appeared in the official guide in one version or another, a spreadsheet that I put together at the beginning of the year. You will not run short of high-quality questions to practice, and there will no question of whether the content could be brought to bear on the test (even if some older questions were based more on knowledge of idioms).

As always, good luck with your studies.

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Hi Ashish,

Thank you for pointing that out! I was not aware of that at all. I'll reconsider my options with SC.

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Moving forward, I aim to include SC as a part of my daily routine (I am terrified of this, to be honest), and take up more non-official questions from the GMAT Forum
I am afraid that solving unofficial questions (especially in SC) is not a recommended practice at all.
I second what Ashish has written above. Questions by third parties are almost always either too simplistic or too convoluted, sometimes with elements of each on display in the same question, and I could provide a seemingly endless list of examples. The following two come to mind from recent threads I have been following:

1) The frog...

2) Trying to learn...

At best, such questions are pale imitations of their official counterparts; at worst, they can be flat-out wrong and mislead the people who come across them to study.

To keep this post constructive, I would invite you to download a master spreadsheet of 800+ official SC questions that have appeared in the official guide in one version or another, a spreadsheet that I put together at the beginning of the year. You will not run short of high-quality questions to practice, and there will no question of whether the content could be brought to bear on the test (even if some older questions were based more on knowledge of idioms).

As always, good luck with your studies.

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Hi Andrew,

Thank you so, so much for sharing this! I just know this is going to be the anchor for my SC preparations. Y'all are awesome!

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Hi Ashish,

Thank you for pointing that out! I was not aware of that at all. I'll reconsider my options with SC.

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Do official questions only, but avoid questions from the GMATPREP tests.
Do questions from recent Official Guides, Verbal Reviews and Quant Reviews.

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While Manhattan Prep should show conservative scores, many prep providers tend to use the same or a variation of official mocks. So, as others have pointed out, the official mock should feel more familiar to you, thus the higher score. At this point I would take the actual exam sooner than later to see a real score.
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The discrepancies here are actually something I very commonly encounter with my students. Generally, such a gap between GMAC Quant scores and Manhattan Prep scores can be attributable to discrepancies between your skill set and the skill set that the exam you're taking rewards.

Manhattan Prep exams generally reward mathematically-intensive, algebraic solutions, so if you have any gaps there, they'll be magnified on those exams and will subsequently lead to a lower score. On the other hand, GMAC questions are designed to test your reasoning skills and are crafted in a much more deliberate and nuanced way to ensure that they are indeed measuring what they intend to measure. The major consequence of this fact is that you can often strategically reason through questions on official GMAC questions in a way that you can't on Manhattan exams. Ultimately, your goal is to master the GMAT, not Manhattan Prep's curriculum, so you should be comforted by your Quant performance on the GMAC exams: these scores better represent your skillset and should be more in line with what you score on the real thing. That said, identifying potential conceptual gaps based off of your Manhattan Prep performance would probably be worthwhile, just make sure that you don't get so lost in the weeds on concepts that you forget to look at the big picture.
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I went back and checked, and noticed that they say "under an hour" - I will probably purchase these once I get through the official guide, and could drop an update here once I have more clarity!

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Hello!
Coming back to this - the question contain 24 questions to be completed in 45 minutes. On exceeding the time limit, the test doesn't end, but the "scoring" stops. The report at the end gives a range of possible scores and a quick overview of "expect success" with different question types (the question types are very broad buckets). An important thing to note here is that they have declared that the scoring algorithm is different from the actual GMAT exam.
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The discrepancies here are actually something I very commonly encounter with my students. Generally, such a gap between GMAC Quant scores and Manhattan Prep scores can be attributable to discrepancies between your skill set and the skill set that the exam you're taking rewards.

Manhattan Prep exams generally reward mathematically-intensive, algebraic solutions, so if you have any gaps there, they'll be magnified on those exams and will subsequently lead to a lower score. On the other hand, GMAC questions are designed to test your reasoning skills and are crafted in a much more deliberate and nuanced way to ensure that they are indeed measuring what they intend to measure. The major consequence of this fact is that you can often strategically reason through questions on official GMAC questions in a way that you can't on Manhattan exams. Ultimately, your goal is to master the GMAT, not Manhattan Prep's curriculum, so you should be comforted by your Quant performance on the GMAC exams: these scores better represent your skillset and should be more in line with what you score on the real thing. That said, identifying potential conceptual gaps based off of your Manhattan Prep performance would probably be worthwhile, just make sure that you don't get so lost in the weeds on concepts that you forget to look at the big picture.
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Hello!

Thank you so much for your insights with this. I wasn't able to get to this before, but now that I look back on the official questions and mocks I've attempted over the last few months, and even in my official attempt today, the quant emphasis was definitely more on reasoning rather than pure math. The whole thing makes a lot more sense now!
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