Focus on harder math problems as strategy?

[Guest]

I feel very comfortable with all the math in the MGMAT materials.


Is it better to just do hard problems from this point forward, given if you want to ace the math section, you'll mostly be seeing really hard questions anyway?

Where are the best resources for this?

[Guest]

Btw, where can we find the more advanced math problems?

Does anyone know?

[StaceyKoprince]

You can try the Challenge Problem archives, but be aware that probably half of those questions are harder than anything you'd ever see on the official test.

We also have two Quest for 750 math workshops - I'm not sure if you've also done those. These two one-day workshops (and a third that focuses on SC) address only the hardest questions - but you won't even see these questions on the real test unless you're scoring at the 80-90th percentile and up. The workshops address problems and strategies that won't help you on the whole test, but they will help you answer an additional 4-6 questions on average (and, of course, those correspond to the hardest questions you'd be offered). Check out the One-Day Workshops section of our web site for more details.

Also, can you answer even the hardest OG and MGMAT math questions correctly in less than 1.5 minutes? Don't forget that timing is an important issue - if you can do something correctly in 2 minutes, one of the things you need to practice is how to do the same question in, say, 1min 45sec. You'll need to pick up small increments of time on the problems you already can do in order to have small increments to spend on even harder questions.

[Guest]

Stacey,

Are the question bank problems independent of the exams? i.e. if i do those they won't then skew my exam results?

[dbernst]

Howdy. Yes, the problems from the question banks are independent from those on the exams. Thus, you don't have to worry about falsely inflating your score by working through the question banks.

-dan