The el set is not a test of some one's ability to solve difficult problems. The medium el set score of someone who goes to ohio state these days, is eight points lower than the medium score of someone at michigan. It his five sections of 20 to 25 questions, and you have a hard limit of 35 minutes for each section. As one elset tudor told me, the test favors those capable of processing without understanding. It favors hairs, not tortoises.