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Hey,

The increased emphasis on meaning in SC questions has already been happening - you’ll still see both grammar-based and meaning-based Qs, but you’ll see a higher proportion that rely on meaning than you currently see in OG, for example.

For the idioms bit, my best guess is that there probably still are some idioms in there (it takes time to strip them all out), but a lot are probably gone already. So definitely low priority, and maybe zero priority, on idioms (for your study).

Keep the above changes in mind and you can still confidently use Manhattan GMAT's SC Strategy Guide to study. Once GMAC releases more information on GMAT changes, we will be updating our Strategy Guides. This will likely be happening in Spring 2012 to coincide with the Next Generation GMAT starting June 2012.

Best,
Matt Mapplebeck
Student Services Associate
Manhattan GMAT

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Matt Mapplebeck
Manhattan GMAT Representative

Hey,

Manhattan GMAT practice tests have not changed dramatically since August 2010. If you take the practice tests again, you should be able to make a fair comparison between your performance this year and last.

Best,
Matt Mapplebeck
Student Services Associate
Manhattan GMAT

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Matt Mapplebeck
Manhattan GMAT Representative

They have stripped out only US-centric idioms. (When they first made the announcement, they said idioms in general, but they later clarified that they only took out US-centric idioms.)

They have not provided a list of which idioms they consider US-centric, but the list in our SC guide does not include any that I would definitely call only US-centric. In other words: yes. Study them. (By the way, we compiled our list from OG12 - so you can study from either one!)

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