Problem Sets for Verbal and Quant Review 2016

[ryanstephen22]

Good day,

I have recently finished the 9-week online course and during my PCA the instructor advised me to focus on problems in the Verbal and Quant Review 2016 books (the orange and green books). I was wondering if there are pre-structured problem sets for these books (similar to the "Do This" pages in the Course Syllabus). The Official Guide Problems Sets printout lists problems from these guides, but are by topic whereas I am looking to do random sets.

Is the best idea simply to work through them from the low to the high numbers for each section?

Thanks and kind regards,
Ryan

[StaceyKoprince]

We don't have pre-made sets for those books, no - but you really should just do them randomly.

Random means:
- mix PS and DS for quant
- mix SC, CR, and RC for verbal
- do NOT just go in order, as the lower-numbered questions are generally easier and the higher-numbered ones are generally harder; instead, mix easy, medium, and hard in one set*

* If your skills are lower overall in Q or V, don't include the hardest questions yet; work your way up. If your skills are higher overall in Q or V, don't include the very lowest-numbered questions

* The difficulty thing doesn't apply to RC, since those questions are grouped by passage rather than difficulty

We recommend doing sets in multiples of 4 for quant (4, 8, 12, or 16) and multiples of 8 for verbal (8 or 16). If you haven't yet watched the Timing Strategies lesson in session 6 of your Interact* assignments, do so - you'll see why we recommend these multiples.

*To get here, log into your student center, click to launch your Online Syllabus, click the number 6, and then click Lessons. Choose the Timing Strategies lesson.

Finally, if you would like, you have access to the OG problems via some online software that will give you random sets. You can tell the software which question types to include and which difficulty levels (easy, medium, or hard) to include. Look on page 4 of any of your OG books to see how to access this software.

On caveat for this software!! Don't do any RC through the software. The system isn't programmed to give you multiple questions per passage. It gives you a passage plus only one question at a time. So RC is pretty useless in the software. Instead, you can set up a set of, say, 5 SC + CR, and then somewhere in the middle, open up your book, pick an RC passage and do 3 questions for it. That's your 8 questions. (For RC, do 3 questions for a shorter passage and 4 questions for a longer one. Some passages have more questions than this; you can re-do these passages with the other questions at a future time.)

Finally, remember that 80% of what you learn will come after you've selected your answer. Make sure you're really analyzing these problems after the fact! Here's how:
http://tinyurl.com/2ndlevelofgmat

Have fun!