by tommywallach Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:14 pm
Great response from Dan here. Thanks Dan!
It's true that the Check Your Skills questions are simply little exercises DIRECTLY related to whatever concept was just described. This makes them doubly easy, because you also know precisely what to expect in terms of what the question will want you to do. The questions at the end of the chapter are much more difficult.
That being said, I also wouldn't necessarily stress if you're struggling with the questions at the back. These aren't always attempting to describe real GRE questions either (though they're much closer than the CYS questions). Instead, they are questions built to test your understanding of the underlying concept taught in the chapter. The only place you should be "Worrying" about performance is on actual GRE questions (or maybe questions in our 5lb. book). Beyond that, don't focus on rightness and wrongness, but on using the book to learn what you should have done.
Hope that helps!
-t