1000 CR

[Guest]

Can someone please guide me where to find the 1000 RC questions?

Thanks.

[Guest]

www.beatthegmat.com

[StaceyKoprince]

Hey - I strongly discourage my students from using the 1000 questions, and they are not permitted to be posted here. It is the case that the 1000 sets contain some very good questions. Here are the problems:

1) some of the questions are downright bad
2) some of the questions contain typos in the official answer (so, for example, it will say the official answer is A when it's really D)
3) some of the questions contain typos in the right answers (so, for example, there will be a grammar error in the right answer!)
4) the only really good questions in those sets are from past official tests - and the creators of the document did NOT get copyright permission to copy and distribute those questions... so they are in the document illegally

I know lots of students don't care about #4 (though I do), but #1-3 should be enough to make you very wary of the 1000 sets.

[Guest]

Stacy is correct.

The 1000CR SC RC questions are pretty bad. Many typos. I think they messed me up more than they helped.

[StaceyKoprince]

Thanks for the back up. :)

[Don2007]

Hi Stacy,

Please I have a question. If you don't encourage us to use the 1000SC set, then what additional verbal materials can we use??? i have exhausted all the prep test CAT materials.


Thanks,

Don.

[StaceyKoprince]

If you don't yet have the score you want, then you have not adequately studied OG. Just because you've done the questions before does not mean you are done with the questions.

You can get official problems from:
OG (3 books)
OG10 (about 25% of the questions are not in the 11th edition books)
GMATPrep
GMAT Focus (quant only)
old paper and pencil tests

DO NOT just race through problems and "use them all up" without getting what you need out of those problems. You actually have to analyze the problems themselves - the structure, the language, the traps, different techniques, the tricky stuff, how they tend to test specific concepts, how they create / structure wrong answers (esp. in verbal), how to do a problem more efficiently than the first way you tried, etc.

All leading to your ultimate goal: how will I RECOGNIZE a (different) problem of the same type in the future? If I can recognize what to do (at least partially) within 15-20 seconds, I have a huge advantage, because I'm trying something that I know has worked before on a similar problem. If I have to figure everything out from scratch... then my chances of getting this one right have just gone way down.