Last column of OG 11th Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency:

by **MGMAT Alumni** Mon May 26, 2008 7:24 pm

Hi Stacey,

If you were to assign a difficulty level to the last column of the quant sections on the OG 11th guide, would it be under 700, around 700, or 750+? I know that may be a tough question to answer, and I'm sure you've been asked that many times.

I am trying to gauge my ability level before I schedule my next test appointment (hopefully my last attempt). I comfortably answered over 80% of the quant questions correctly prior to reaching the last column, which is much trickier. I was still able to answer the majority of these last questions correctly by employing some prep course tactics, namely:

"If the 1st Data Suff statement is clearly insufficient,
and the 2nd statement is one long and complicated statement,
and Answer choice C (combining the two) clearly gives you more than enough info,

GO with choice B, NOT C."

These strategies seem to work well so far with the tough questions that I have trouble solving outright.

Some of those last questions I can solve too, though, because of the strong foundation I've developed w/ the SG guides, such as using the prime boxes for those tricky factors/divisors questions toward the end of the OG guide.

I guess my question really is: Do I need to be absolutely comfortable answering every last question of the two quant sections of the OG 11th guide in order to score above 700, or are those questions considered 750+ level?

Thanks a lot.

by **StaceyKoprince** Thu May 29, 2008 12:08 am

Actually, the way the scoring works, you only need to answer about half of 700 level questions right in order to score a 700. The test does not base your score on where you can get 100% of the questions right, as static paper-based tests do - it bases your score on the level at which you can get about half of the questions right.

So, no, you don't have to be able to answer every last one. :)

p.s. as you said, it's very difficult to gauge difficulty levels. I'd be comfortable saying those last few questions are 700+. I can't really get more precise than that.