General OG Question

[ajafari]

In the class we learned that if you answer 50% of your questions correctly and 50% incorrectly, your score gets calculated based on the level of difficulty of those questions.

I'm getting 50-60% correct on the very last set of problems on Sentence Correction in the Official Guide Verbal Supplement. Is that considered good? I'm shooting for a 700+, so I'm hoping those are 700 level questions, and thus I'm honing in on 700 at least in Sentence Correction.

Also, this question applies to all other math and verbal topics found in the OG. If one is shooting for a high score on the GMAT, is the goal then to get at least 50% of the hardest OG problems (the end of the section) in their respective sections correct?

[StaceyKoprince]

Yes, that's a great way to think about it - assuming you're timing yourself and doing things just the way they'd be done on the real test. (FYI - the percentage is probably more like 60%, not 50%.)

Obviously, there's also fuzziness because we don't know exactly where the 700+ level questions start - they don't tell us. But, in general, the highest-numbered questions are the hardest.