Difficulty levels when using the Navigator to do OG problems

[mchidothe]

Hi,

I was wondering if you could provide a score guide/ benchmark for the difficulty levels reported when using the Navigator. i.e. does 'easier = 300-500' , 'moderate =500-600', 'harder =600-750', 'devilish = 750+'??

Thanks in advance

[StaceyKoprince]

They don't correspond to particular scoring levels, no - the only way we could figure that out would be if we put these into an adaptive test set-up and tested the problems on thousands of people. (ie, what the actual GMAT test makers did when they first created this problems and used them as experimental questions on their tests. :)

In general, we just tracked the percentage correct over a large number of our students and then divided the problems into these four categories. The labels are accurate in a relative sense - so something labeled medium is, on average, answered correctly at a lower rate than something labeled easier, and so on.

I know you're asking because you're thinking that this will help you know which problems to study - but you shouldn't actually base what you study on the difficulty level of the problems. It's important to study the easier and medium ones, too! :)

[mchidothe]

Thanks Stacey. Much appreciated

[StaceyKoprince]

You're welcome!

[JustinV727]

Does anyone know what a Nothing difficulty means?

[StaceyKoprince]

It means that we haven't collected enough data yet to give it a credible difficulty level.

Although, I think by now, we may actually have collected enough data on the newest problems to assign difficulty levels. Our tech department is running the numbers to see—so you may see difficulty levels show up sometime soon!

[AmandaP735]

Thanks! I was just wondering about this today while doing OG 2017 problems in the Navigator!

[StaceyKoprince]

You're welcome!