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by kevincanspain » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:53 pm
I am a former Kaplan GMAT instructor and I take the exam every year, and I can say that I have not noticed any changes over the past 5 years in either the quantitative or verbal section. No boldfaced CRs, no questions about combinatronics...On the quant side, lots of algebra and number properties.

The experimental section went well, but it was hard to focus after concentrating on the GMAT and AWA.
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by adi_800 » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:03 pm
Hi,

It is good to hear such a statement from a GMAT instructor...
But it might be the case that GMAT varies from country to country or continent to continent..
YOU NEVER KNOW !!

Coz Asians are very good at quant, asians might get tougher quant... N since asians are not that good in verbal since we are not native people...anything slightly tougher in verbal might be very difficult for us...

Again..this has been discussed in the past and has caused lot many varied opinions....
But I just thought of putting my part !!
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by prodizy » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:49 pm
congrats on cracking the GMAT again.
bold face CR questions are not asked in the exam?
Also can you tell us any other patterns that you found out in the last five years?

I thought if you score 51/51 we get 800. Is it not the case?

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by kevincanspain » Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:07 am
adi_800 wrote:Hi,

It is good to hear such a statement from a GMAT instructor...
But it might be the case that GMAT varies from country to country or continent to continent..
YOU NEVER KNOW !!

Coz Asians are very good at quant, asians might get tougher quant... N since asians are not that good in verbal since we are not native people...anything slightly tougher in verbal might be very difficult for us...

Again..this has been discussed in the past and has caused lot many varied opinions....
But I just thought of putting my part !!
I hope that this is not the case: the GMAT is supposed to allow business schools to compare people with different backgrounds.
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by gmatlnv » Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:07 am
Hi

Surprised to hear that. I wrote the GMAT 2 weeks back and I got both the boldface CR and the combinatorics (infact 2) questions. I got a lot of DS in the Math sections. Should I then assume that I was in a medium bin cos I scored just 650 (Q49, V28)? Confusing....
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by kevincanspain » Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:00 am
I have not seen any patterns from year to year either in content or in difficulty. I find this reassuring.
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by ithinkican » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:57 am
kevincanspain wrote:I am a former Kaplan GMAT instructor and I take the exam every year, and I can say that I have not noticed any changes over the past 5 years in either the quantitative or verbal section. No boldfaced CRs, no questions about combinatronics...On the quant side, lots of algebra and number properties.

The experimental section went well, but it was hard to focus after concentrating on the GMAT and AWA.
Do you get to see your score before the experimental section or do you have to wait until the end?
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by adi_800 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:20 am
gmatlnv wrote:Hi

Surprised to hear that. I wrote the GMAT 2 weeks back and I got both the boldface CR and the combinatorics (infact 2) questions. I got a lot of DS in the Math sections. Should I then assume that I was in a medium bin cos I scored just 650 (Q49, V28)? Confusing....
U gave in India or China or wat??
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by kevincanspain » Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:33 pm
You don't see the score until the very end!
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by sreerac » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:11 pm
I wrote 1 month back and got 1 bold faced question.
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