OG12 and Verbal 2nd tough quesitons

[patelbhavesh_09]

Hi guys,

I am going to take GMAT on 20th. Now a days I am focusing only on verbal and doing OG 12 and verbal 2nd edition. I've solved first 35 questions of RC and I got only 2 wrong. I don't want to do this kins of easy questions because I don't think these kind of quesiton I'll encounter in actual GMAT. So would you please guide me how can I find tough verbal question in these two guides? If possible please provide me list of questions with its difficulty level. I am also using MGMAT OG companion lite verions, but It is also not giving difficulty level.

Please help.

Bhavesh.

[zaur]

doing OG 12 and verbal 2nd edition. I've solved first 35 questions of RC and I got only 2 wrong. I don't want to do this kins of easy questions because

Please help.

Bhavesh.

OG12 is like OG11; the questions' difficulty level is progressive. Try last 70-80 questions for each section (quant or verbal) in OG. Their difficulty levels are at 600-650 and plus!

[StaceyKoprince]

zaur is right: in the OG books, the harder questions have higher numbers (though there is not a strict categorization - Q 50 is harder than Q 1 in that same section, but Q 50 may not be harder than Q 49).

You're right that you don't want to do only the lowest-numbered questions. How do you know what kinds of questions you can expect to get on the test? Have you taken a practice test? That should give you an idea of whether you can skip the lower-numbered questions and go for the medium and harder ones or not.

A few things to keep in mind:
(1) you MUST time yourself and keep to the time constraints; a pure percentage correct (even 100% correct) means nothing without the timing data
(2) it's better to do a random mix of questions of different types (eg, DS and PS) and difficulty levels (eg, Q30, Q41, Q53, Q82) than just a straight list of 5 Qs in a row. The real test is going to mix things up.
(3) in terms of gauging your performance, take a practice test; stats on non-adaptive banks of printed questions... not as useful in terms of gauging your overall performance

(4) stop worrying about difficulty level so much. :) Read this:
http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/03/ ... n-the-gmat

Finally, it sound (from what you wrote) like your focus is mostly on doing lots of problems. It's good to do practice problems, of course, but when actually doing problems, you're learning only about 20% of what you could learn overall from that problem. Most of your learning comes from your review and analysis after the fact, so make sure that you're doing that as well. Here are some articles that show you how to do this:

http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/a ... roblem.cfm

Read the above first, then:
SC: http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/GMATprep-SC.cfm
CR: http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/CR-assumption.cfm
RC: http://www.manhattangmat.com/articles/a ... estion.cfm

Good luck!

[vikramsumer]

Stacey

Your answers and attention to requests is the best among all MGMAT instructors. No one is bad, all are good... you are just great!

Thanks :)

[jnelson0612]

I am filling in for Stacey and will be sure to pass on your nice comment--thank you!