OK, so my question in the title says it all. I am preparing to take the GMAT again and this time, I've changed my study philosophy. I have the Official guide 11 and 12 as well as the quant official guide supplement and have spent the last 3 months really picking apart the questions. My goal in the q...

It seems that there is a camp that is in consensus that the GMAT is getting harder. Has this been confirmed? It seems to me that there is a limit to the difficulty level of the questions.

10 years ago, a 700 was ~98th percentile. Not too long ago, 700 was 95th percentile, now it is ~90th percentile. Over the same time, the average score has risen from ~500 to 538-ish. The sub scores of math and verbal are slifing up, too. If you look at the LSAT as a benchmark, the average score in t...

Since there are 22 problem solving questions and 15 data sufficiency questions, does that mean that problem solving performance is a higher percentage of one's overall quant score?

The "hard" question bins are real ball busters....
http://www.platinumgmat.com/practice_gm ... _questions

Thanks for replying, but I'm not sure you hit on the crux of what I'm asking. Or, may be I am misunderstanding how the GMAt is scored. The way I understand it- a 700 GMAT is indicative of a certain skill level. Whether that 700 was 10 years ago or last year, a GMAT score, (much like an IQ score) SHO...

Thank you for replying. What you are saying, to me anyway is that the test is actually evolving to more of what it SHOULD be- a test of how well someone can critically think and connect ostensibly unrelated concepts.

Thank you for replying...again. Is there a difference between 800 level and 760 level questions. I thought that at the extreme tail of the exam, the question difficulty doesn't change much, your score adjusts based on whether you miss more than 1 in a row? It is surprising, I must say that as you do...

this is what i think of as an "easy" question disguised to be a ~700 level question.


http://www.platinumgmat.com/practice_gm ... stion_id=2

Is there a rule of thumb for when to use a matrix vs a venn diagram?
Thank you.

This is a great question and one that I would get wrong almost 100% of the time unless I practiced "thinking" this way. I think that once you figure out what the question is asking, you don't have to do all the algebra- just think something like: "If both the numerator AND denominator...

Not affiliated in any way, I just stumbled on the website and the questions seem like great questions to me. I'm just sharing the info because if most on here are like me, they are finding it hard to find good 48+ level quant questions.

The link is a quant + verbal score converter to a 200-800 score. I've tried a lot of combos and found some flaws at the high end, but mostly, the number it spits out corresponds with what people are posting in their debriefs.

thank you