GMAT Official Advanced Questions 1st Edition

I found this book incredibly helpful and would highly recommend it for those targeting a 700+ score.I would NOT recommend starting your prep here. Start with the OG and move to the OG Advanced only if/when you're consistently getting OG questions correct and need tougher content to challenge you. Quant is my weaker area and I wasted time struggling with some of the advanced problems that would have been better spent reinforcing the fundamentals, so don't do that. On the other hand, I was very strong in verbal and it was absolutely this book that got my verbal score from good to great.Unlike the OG, the problems are organized by content area and there are actually good answer explanations. For the most part I found the explanations to be genuinely helpful, with some useful insights on how to approach similar problems. As you know if you've used it, the OG can be incomprehensible.Also, because this book is a lot shorter than the OG, it's easier to carry around if you want to study on the go. It came with me various places while the OG never left its spot on my dining room table.

I spent about 20 hours prepping for the GMAT. This book and the official practice exams online were the two best things for my studying. With no prep on my first practice test I scored a 740, I spent the next 2 weeks studying a variety of books and feel like this is the most helpful for raising my score to a 780. Highly recommend if you're pretty close to perfect and just need more practice at the nuanced/challenging questions.

I'm a Harvard grad, professional GMAT tutor since 2002, and 99% GMAT scorer (770).Although only about 100 of the 300 questions in this book are new, this book is incredibly useful for anyone aiming for a 700+ score, especially those who have already exhausted all of the questions in the Official Guides (OGs), Official GMAT Practice Exams and Official GMAT Practice Questions. Purchase of the book also includes an access code that allows you to access the same 300 questions in a mobile or desktop computer format.For more information, including a full, updated list of my personal GMAT prep recommendations, google "GMAT Action Plan."Best of luck on your GMAT and beyond,-Brian

Some questions in CR and RC are really annoying…

For the Gmat you need all the practice problems you can get. This book only includes the hardest problems and is perfect for nailing the gmat.

Highly recommended.

*** Should You Buy It? ***$30 for over 150 never before seen hard questions + 150 older hard questions in a single collection is a great deal compared to new OG editions for $35. It is esp. valuable for retakers who ordered ESR's since this book actually matches those categories and the more I work with the book and review it, the more I like it. If you are struggling with the GMAT, this book is not for you and it is only going to distract you. On the other hand, if you are up there and looking to bump up your score a bit, this collection of Harder Official Questions and Explanations!!! and a Match for ESR categories (helpful to retakers) is going to be very handy and it is a fairly inexpensive add on. The main value would be from those 150 Explanations for the Verbal section. However, I would NOT replace the main OG with this book and would only buy it in addition.*** Here is a brief overview and some discoveries about the book and its contents: ***There are 150 Quant and 150 Verbal Questions.* 67 PS Questions* 83 DS Questions* 50 RC's (5 out of 8 passages are completely new)* 49 CR's* 51 SC'sThe categories that these are split into are very odd and unusual but the GREAT news is that these match the ESR categories. For example, CR is split into Analysis/Critique and Construction/Plan and SC into Communication and Grammar.Probably the most valuable aspect of the book is that it contains EXPLANATIONS. While I have been able to find some of the questions from the old Power Prep Software, those questions never had explanations (just like their cousins in the GMAT Prep online), so it is great and helpful to get those explanations and resolve those decade-long debates we had about why some of the CR/SC answer choices ere wrong.The only disappointing piece is the price. I wish it was priced closer to $20.Good Luck!BB, Founder of GMAT ClubP.S. I reply to comments, so comment if you have any questions.

The book came in with pink gel all over it. However, it does seem to be a brand new book.