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Hey guys,

Ah, isn't diversity the spice of life?!

Rest assured that the GMAT will NEVER, ever, ever, never, ever, never test this. And this coming from a guy who always takes care to never say never.

From what I gather, most Americans will say "take the test". Most Canadians will say "write the test". And most Indian students will say "give the test". And although I'm fairly patriotic, I think it's pretty fair to say that the GMAT and business schools do not want to give a xenophobic preference to any one nationality group on the exam, so they simply cannot test this, the same way that they won't care whether you spell the word "colour" or "color" on your AWA essay. British/American/etc. English is all acceptable on the GMAT.

And even more big-picture - try to emphasize Sentence Correction strategy over idiomatic usage. We know for a fact that the GMAT tests Modifiers, Subject-Verb Agreement, etc. over and over again. So get good at that stuff. But there are tens of thousands of idioms and colloquialisms out there, many of which are culturally-specific. You'll never (again that word that I try to avoid) learn them all, but you won't need them either. Use the scalable, recurring items that you know to certainly be testable and you'll be much more efficient.

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Brian Galvin
GMAT Instructor
Director of Academic Programs
Veritas Prep

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I have always known that the GMAT was about "give and take"

You "give" them your answers and they "take" your money.

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David Newland, JD, MA, MAE
GMAT Instructor, Tutor, and Author
Veritas Prep