Difficulty of Consecutive questions when doing well

[mbadler]

I noticed on the verbal (and Math) CATs that every so often a 600-700 question will appear, even if I had just answer several 700-800 questions correctly. Is this reflective of the real GMAT?

This is important to my test taking strategy as these questions often provide opportunities to catch up on time.

[RonPurewal]

I noticed on the verbal (and Math) CATs that every so often a 600-700 question will appear, even if I had just answer several 700-800 questions correctly. Is this reflective of the real GMAT?

This is important to my test taking strategy as these questions often provide opportunities to catch up on time.

actually, this is not important to your test strategy at all.
there is no chance whatsoever that you will be able to assess, with any accuracy, the "difficulty level" of problems on the real test; therefore, any strategy based on the precise difficulty levels of problems is a completely useless strategy.

read here:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... 02/05/446/

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also note that about 30% of the problems on the real test sections are experimental questions, which are completely random in terms of difficulty -- so, even if you could tell the difficulty level of problems (which you can't), it still wouldn't be any use.