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The test is adaptive, a Computer-Adaptive Test (CAT), which means that questions will match your skill level. There should be very few easy questions that you can solve in a few seconds. So if you are a top student, expect to see very hard questions. If you are a poor student, expect easy questions (that you will still struggle to solve).
The question difficulty can make huge leaps in the first few questions. Expect the first question to be moderately difficult (most GMAT guides say the first question is "average" but expect it a hair more challenging than just "average").
There are experimental questions that won't be at your skill level, but most questions will. We can generalize this rule:
If a question seems unusually easy or quick to solve, double check yourself. If a question seems unusually hard, look for shortcuts. Most questions should fit your skill level, but do expect some exceptions.
As a side note, in designing the 800score GMAT computer-adaptive tests, we have kept a few questions that might seem a little out of your skill level as a curveball. We do not want our tests to be "too perfect" and want to best simulate the actual GMAT experience.
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