GMAT GOT TOUGHER ????

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sandeepkamath: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 10; Joined: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:53 am

by sandeepkamath » Sat May 02, 2009 8:41 pm

Hi, Was Going through the newspaper today , there was a article on the front page (GMAT just got tougher ). with the addition of 300 new questions.break up . Sentence correction : 57 new questions, Critical Reasoning : 50 new Questions, Reading Comprehension : 43 New Questions, Data Sufficiency : 94 New Questions, Problem Solving : 56 New Questions. there also has been some deletions , CR : 50 Questions deleted, P.S : 19 Questions Deleted, R.C : 2 biology Passages replaced by one Social Science and one Business related.In Sentence Correction there is an increased emphasis on pronoun and modifier rules while there is a reduction on comparisons and idiom related questions. Also inference questions has increased significantly so what do you say ? has it really got tougher ??

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by vkb16 » Sat May 02, 2009 9:17 pm

hi.. which newspaper ru talkin abt? Im from India as well

IMO, the news has confused the changes made to the 12th edition OG rather than the pattern of the GMAT.

I guess u could correlate the two, but I dont think its tougher. Just that the emphasis has been shifted a bit. Go to manhattangmat's website, and they have a thorough rundown of the changes in the latest 12th edition OG.

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by sandeepkamath » Sat May 02, 2009 9:43 pm

The Times Of India Sunday edition

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by mjjking » Sun May 03, 2009 1:13 am

I took it recently after having taken it two years ago. I can tell you that, honestly, it hasn't got anymore difficult. Perhaps questions are a li'l different (but just perhaps), but in general, it's all the same.

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by Neo2000 » Sun May 03, 2009 6:13 am

The TOI did a crappy job of reviewing the OG-12.
Neither the GMAC website nor the MBA.com website has any article relating to this change and i find it hard to believe that of all the newspapers in the world, TOI go an insider scoop.

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by 4seasoncentre » Sun May 03, 2009 7:51 am

I don't think it would be fair for the GMAT to get tougher as a 500 taken 5 years ago should be comparable to a 500 taken today.

However, I would hypothesize that the marks have gotten higher with so many vendors offering study guides. I believe the original intention was that the mean mark was to be 500. right now its' at about 535, with a median a tap lower than 550.

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