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Jose Ferreira

Hey everyone,

Knewton has received an early shipment of the 12th Edition of the GMAT Review (The Official Guide), so we wanted to share with you some early details about what you can find in the new book. More to come! (Update: Verbal Analysis here!)

Here is a first look at the number of new and repeated questions in the Math section of the OG:

TOTAL (MATH):

11th Edition: 404 questions
12th Edition: 404 questions

New questions in 12th Edition: 146 (36%)
Repeated questions in 12th Edition: 258 (64%)

PROBLEM SOLVING:

11th Edition: 249 questions
12th Edition: 230 questions

New questions in 12th Edition: 52 (23%)
Repeated questions in 12th Edition: 178 (77%)
Questions deleted from 11th Edition: 71 (29%)

DATA SUFFICIENCY:

11th Edition: 155 questions
12th Edition: 174 questions!

New questions in 12th Edition: 94 (54%)
Repeated questions in 12th Edition: 80 (46%)
Questions deleted from 11th Edition: 75 (48%)

As you can see, the total number of questions has not changed, but there are now 19 fewer Problem Solving questions and 19 more Data Sufficiency questions. We think this is great, since, in our experience, most students have more trouble with the DS section.

There are also many more new DS questions (94) than there are PS questions (52). Here is a complete list of the new questions in each section (question numbers in the 12th Edition).

Stay tuned for our analysis of the Verbal Section, coming soon. Let us know if you have specific questions we can look into!

Problem Solving
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2, 5, 13, 18, 23, 24, 27, 28, 40, 42, 43, 45, 48, 50, 54, 58, 59, 60, 65, 66, 68, 69, 73, 74, 81, 82, 83, 89, 90, 91, 92, 99, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 117, 119, 124, 142, 143, 146, 148, 157, 159, 163, 164, 171, 197, 230

Data Sufficiency
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4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 66, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 128, 129, 132, 133, 134, 137, 141, 142, 147, 148, 151, 152, 157, 161, 162, 167, 168

DanaJ · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:28 am Post subject:

<sigh>
My question about this (and I believe it's a fundamental question) is: are the problems different in content or only in numbers? I believe that this is really important, since if you change the numbers of a problem, but still test the same type of issue, there isn't much of a difference.
However, if the type of problems is different (i.e. testing different concepts), then there might be some issues.

maihuna · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Yep thats a good question, we need to see it that way...btw, thanks newton ceo for quick updates...u guys/gals are much ahead in race with others...

cramya · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:09 pm Post subject:

Jose,
Kind of u to share the info with the BTG members.

Any insights on the Verbal side(especially CR)??

Thanks!

Regards,
Cramya

maihuna · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject:

Hi Jose,
I have one question, do you see any paper based questions in new set of questions? How many questions are in hard bins for each section?

msanthosh2004 · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:35 am Post subject:

Hi,

Any idea whether these questions are from Official GMAT Math review book. If these extra questions from math review then its not sensible for people who have math review book to buy this. Any idea abt that ?

Cheers,
San

cubicle_bound_misfit · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:39 am Post subject:

please let us know if DS has become tougher.

logitech · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:29 am Post subject:

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NethraN · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

Jose Ferreira,
Thanks a lot for sharing this information. It is surely very helpful.

DonDraper · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:48 am Post subject:

This exercise is silly. This is like studying a ten-year-old map to figure out how to get around a new city. The whole reason GMAC is willing to share these questions is because they're retired.

I think that anyone who takes this exercise seriously is fooling themselves.

Ian Stewart · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:17 am Post subject:

DonDraper · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:42 am Post subject:

Ian, I agree with all of what you said. My argument is that trying to divine where the test is going, because the OG has 19 more data sufficiency questions than before, is kind of pointless.

Ian Stewart · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:03 am Post subject:

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