Magoosh Quant Question Bank : Magoosh

Hi mikemcgarry, KevinRocci

I have been practicing for quite some time using the Magoosh Question bank.
I have always taken a custom practice test with 37 Questions, Kept the quiz timed, adaptive and always picked up answered questions.

I have been getting an accuracy of 30/37 questions correct and it has been the same more or less over so many attempts.

However I have few questions with respect to the questions.

a) How representative of the actual GMAT are the Magoosh Quant questions. Are the questions on the actual GMAT tougher or at the same level as in the Magoosh GMAT questions.

b) If I am doing fairly well with the Magoosh quant questions, can i expect that the questions on the actual GMAT exam will be more or less at the same difficulty level?

c) Also despite getting an accuracy of atleast 30/37 questions (with difficulty of the questions being mostly HARD or very HARD. For very questions i see the difficulty level tagged MEDIUM) and with so many attempts, the magoosh quant score predictor puts my expected score in the range of 40-44. How good/reliable are these score predictors from Magoosh?

d) Also on practicing questions from the verbal question bank, i found that the questions in CR were more dense than were the questions on the actual GMAT prep.
Also RC passages were very lengthy. Any feedback on verbal questions?

Vijay

svijayaug12 wrote:Hi mikemcgarry, KevinRocci

I have been practicing for quite some time using the Magoosh Question bank.
I have always taken a custom practice test with 37 Questions, Kept the quiz timed, adaptive and always picked up answered questions.

I have been getting an accuracy of 30/37 questions correct and it has been the same more or less over so many attempts.

However I have few questions with respect to the questions.

a) How representative of the actual GMAT are the Magoosh Quant questions. Are the questions on the actual GMAT tougher or at the same level as in the Magoosh GMAT questions.

b) If I am doing fairly well with the Magoosh quant questions, can i expect that the questions on the actual GMAT exam will be more or less at the same difficulty level?

c) Also despite getting an accuracy of atleast 30/37 questions (with difficulty of the questions being mostly HARD or very HARD. For very questions i see the difficulty level tagged MEDIUM) and with so many attempts, the magoosh quant score predictor puts my expected score in the range of 40-44. How good/reliable are these score predictors from Magoosh?

d) Also on practicing questions from the verbal question bank, i found that the questions in CR were more dense than were the questions on the actual GMAT prep.
Also RC passages were very lengthy. Any feedback on verbal questions?

Vijay

Dear Vijay,
I'm happy to respond.

First of all, I will say that we strive to make our questions as representative as possible of the GMAT itself. If anything, we are a little over-ambitious, and try to make questions that are a shaded harder than what you will see on the GMAT, so that the real GMAT will seem easier.

a) The hardest questions in the Magoosh product are at least as hard as the hardest questions in the GMAT question bank. Now, remember that the GMAT itself is Computer Adaptive, a little understood process. If you are performing well, you will see mostly hard questions on the GMAT.

b) Again, I don't know whether you are taking into account the Computer Adaptive element of the GMAT. The difficulty you see on test day is very much dependent on what you are getting right and what you are getting wrong. Again, the hardest Magoosh questions are at least as hard as the hardest GMAT questions. Whether you will see the hardest GMAT questions on test day is very much up to you.

c) The Magoosh score predictor seems reasonably accurate: at least that what our students tell us after they take their real GMATs. I woudl say that the big question is not: if I get 30 out of 37 hard Magoosh questions correct, that would correspond to what GMAT score? That's a speculative and not very ambitious question. The significant better question to ask is: if I get 30 out of 37 question correct, then how much do I have to pour over those other seven questions that I got wrong, how much do I have to study the explanations and related concepts, until I am absolutely sure that I will never make those same mistakes again? Every question you get wrong is a personal challenge: what do you have to do so that you never make that particular mistake again?

d) Again, the Magoosh questions lean toward the hard side: dense CR, long RC passages. Not entirely out of GMAT range, but leaning toward the harder end of things. If you understand everything going on in every Magoosh verbal questions, you will be in very good shape for the real test.

Does all this make sense?
Mike
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