Help: Quant Practice Sets (37 Mixed Questions)

[jerarnold]

I am just a few weeks away from test day, and have used up most of my CAT exams.

I want to do a timed practice set for Math each day where I am exposed to different questions (similar to the test).

Are there specific resources Manhattan GMAT recommends to pull from for these practice sets?

[tim]

Doing a 37-question set each day (which is what it looks like you're trying to do given the subject line) is definitely overkill! Instead focus on working on smaller problem sets - 10 or 15 questions at a time - and spend time thoroughly reviewing the problems after the 20 or 30 minutes is up. A proper review will take 3-5 minutes per problem, so as you can see doing a 37-question set would take so much time to do and review that you might not be able to get through it all in one day anyway. To make problem sets for yourself, just identify which questions you have yet to do from the OG books and come up with a system for pulling questions of varying difficulty and diverse topics. To answer your question very directly, don't use *ANY* resources other than the OG books to pull problems from.

[jerarnold]

Thanks Tim. Certainly agree that 37 each day with a full review is way too aggressive. Let me provide you some additional context:

My biggest weakness right now is stamina and performing well on the questions towards the end of the Quant section. I've tried the 15 question sets you mention above, but they simply do not help my performance at the end of the test.

I also find that randomly selecting problems from the OG is not ideal if I am timing myself because the problems are grouped by topic area and flipping pages kills time that otherwise would not be lost on test day.

[tim]

Flipping pages is not a problem if you do it right. Two words: Post-Its. (Maybe that's one word.) BTW the OG problems are categorically NOT organized by topic! They are however organized by difficulty, so skipping around is still your best bet.

If the problem is stamina, order the tests from 800score.com and take them as often as you feel like you need to (don't waste your remaining MGMAT tests on this task because they're too valuable to use for analyzing your strengths and weaknesses at intervals of 3-4 weeks). But if stamina is truly the issue, you MUST do the full test each time - AWA, IR, quant, and verbal. Otherwise you are not truly building stamina for the real test; a 37-question set by itself is just as inadequate for that task as a 10-question set.

[RonPurewal]

Hi all,

Sorry to be the bad guy, but, questions about study strategies don't belong in this folder. They belong in the "General GMAT Strategy Questions" folder (= first folder on the forum home page).

To the original poster: If you wish to continue the dialogue, please post in that folder. Thanks!