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Easy, Medium and Hard questions on the test
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24 Nov 2015, 08:57
24 Nov 2015, 08:57
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Hello!
I am about to take the GRE in about 3 weeks and have prepared already a lot.
Looking back at the material provided by ETS itself, the categorize practice questions as "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard" e.g. in the Verbal Reasoning Practice questions in the official GRE guide.
My question is: [approximately, according to your knowledge and experience] how many questions on the test are "Hard" questions, how many are "Easy" and "Medium" respectively?
Especially for me being a non-native Speaker of English, I find the "Hard" questions on the Verbal Section almost impossible to solve unless I know the words exactly.
Thank you very much for your held and your advice!
I am about to take the GRE in about 3 weeks and have prepared already a lot.
Looking back at the material provided by ETS itself, the categorize practice questions as "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard" e.g. in the Verbal Reasoning Practice questions in the official GRE guide.
My question is: [approximately, according to your knowledge and experience] how many questions on the test are "Hard" questions, how many are "Easy" and "Medium" respectively?
Especially for me being a non-native Speaker of English, I find the "Hard" questions on the Verbal Section almost impossible to solve unless I know the words exactly.
Thank you very much for your held and your advice!
Re: Easy, Medium and Hard questions on the test
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24 Nov 2015, 10:40
24 Nov 2015, 10:40
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Hi,
answering to your question is almost impossible, if not.
Actually, you answer the first part of the test (both quant and verbal) and base on how many questions you pick right or wrong the second part will be harder. As a matter of fact, the second part will be hard to the extent that roughly 40 or 50 % of the students that reach THIS threshold (i.e answering the first part good) in the second part can answer correctly.
Indeed, the GRE test rather than GMAT, which is a pure CAT test where the next question is harder or easier, you do not know if you are doing well or not.
For example, during the verbal part of the GMAT test whether you see a bold face question in front of you, then you do know more or less that you are in the high score zone of the test; though you do not know precisely your score. In the end you can have 680 or 710. who knows. Take this with a grain of salt: I am saying this to give you an idea. Just for sake.
During the GRE all this is unknown to you, because your CAT test is tailored NOT on every question but on an entire battery of questions.
Be aware that on the contrary of the GMAT, GRE is a test especially conceived to test native and non native speakers on their language skill. Math is important, but not as much as is the verbal part. In that sense GMAT, for instance, is more balanced, in terms of skills and tested contents.
Hope this help. Good Luck with your test
regards
answering to your question is almost impossible, if not.
Actually, you answer the first part of the test (both quant and verbal) and base on how many questions you pick right or wrong the second part will be harder. As a matter of fact, the second part will be hard to the extent that roughly 40 or 50 % of the students that reach THIS threshold (i.e answering the first part good) in the second part can answer correctly.
Indeed, the GRE test rather than GMAT, which is a pure CAT test where the next question is harder or easier, you do not know if you are doing well or not.
For example, during the verbal part of the GMAT test whether you see a bold face question in front of you, then you do know more or less that you are in the high score zone of the test; though you do not know precisely your score. In the end you can have 680 or 710. who knows. Take this with a grain of salt: I am saying this to give you an idea. Just for sake.
During the GRE all this is unknown to you, because your CAT test is tailored NOT on every question but on an entire battery of questions.
Be aware that on the contrary of the GMAT, GRE is a test especially conceived to test native and non native speakers on their language skill. Math is important, but not as much as is the verbal part. In that sense GMAT, for instance, is more balanced, in terms of skills and tested contents.
Hope this help. Good Luck with your test
regards
Re: Easy, Medium and Hard questions on the test
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24 Nov 2015, 12:11
24 Nov 2015, 12:11
Thx for the reply!
I was aware that the GRE-sections are "prefabricated" batteries, subsequent questions in a given section are independent of each other.
That means though that a set of questions was designed for a given (Verbal or Quantitative) Section. They take a bunch of questions and compile them to a battery of questions for a (V or Q) section
Maybe to ask more precisely: how does ETS compile those batteries? There must be some system behind this.
I mean they can't say "oh yeah, let's have a battery of (Verbal- or Quant-) section which only consists of super hard questions and make another one where the questions are super easy!"
Their testing strategy implies that there must be at least three different levels of difficulty for each section, which could differ depending on the number of easy, medium and hard questions they consist of.
I was aware that the GRE-sections are "prefabricated" batteries, subsequent questions in a given section are independent of each other.
That means though that a set of questions was designed for a given (Verbal or Quantitative) Section. They take a bunch of questions and compile them to a battery of questions for a (V or Q) section
Maybe to ask more precisely: how does ETS compile those batteries? There must be some system behind this.
I mean they can't say "oh yeah, let's have a battery of (Verbal- or Quant-) section which only consists of super hard questions and make another one where the questions are super easy!"
Their testing strategy implies that there must be at least three different levels of difficulty for each section, which could differ depending on the number of easy, medium and hard questions they consist of.
