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Apr 6 2010

Daily GMAT questions

Every weekday, GMAT Hacks publishes a realistic GMAT practice question. In general, you'll see Quant problems on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and Verbal questions on Tuesday and Thursday. You'll always be able to find them at www.gmatdaily.com.

Give today's question a try, and check your answer.

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After several weeks of these daily GMAT questions, I'm opting out. They are too easy. But this doesn't mean I'm too good. Actually, I'm not. Really not. I'm still struggling. But I see no reason to waste the time for questions that typically take me less a minute to shoot, and rarely require to touch a pencil. Ciao.

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Dec 21 2009

(Don't) Ask a Stupid Question

You can ask “the crowd” all kinds of questions, but if you don’t stop to think about the best way to ask your question, you’re likely to get unexpected and unreliable results. You might call it the GIGO theory of research design.
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Pretty good post on how to ask questions and how not to get fooled by answers. Very nice.

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Nov 15 2009

"Tough" questions from GMAT 800

I saw a number of positive reviews for the sample questions from the Kaplan GMAT 800 book (now Kaplan GMAT Advanced).  Not a problem, just got a copy for myself, and went through it.

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To avoid confusion, I completed only Critical Reasoning part of it.  However, making in average 75% of correct answers (1 mistake in every 4 questions set), I got some serious doubts about extraordinary type of questions there.  

They are good, but not much more.  

On the other note, format of the book is really weird.  I don't like it.  I believe the willingness to do a guidebook drove them to such a style, but it doesn't help at all.  I'd prefer something closer to a "classic" approach, when I clearly have a set of questions to work through, and the answers to clearly state correct answer, but not looking for it in the several blocks of explanations.
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Oct 2 2009

How many questions to solve?

While doing my GMAT preparation, I'm wondering how many questions should I solve every time?

My typical set ranges about 40 question, but I feel that this is not enough. From the other side, having other things to do, I can't do more then 40 questions and then go through answers at once. And if I'm going through answers later on, I already don't remember my reasoning for choosing a different answer.

In addition to my (almost) daily question sets, I'm spending about an hour-hour and a half of reading, usually something that can improve my English skills.

Do you have any thoughts on this to share? Thanks.

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