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intellijat: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 4; Joined: Sun May 16, 2010 8:12 pm

has the GMAC upped the ante ?

by intellijat » Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:57 am

hi.....over the last month and a half the debriefs of gmat-crackers and the gmat cracked seem to have shifted gears.It was pretty straightforward then.....get the so called best books...learn them...solve the OG/gmat prep and you were ready for gmat glory.I too jumped on this bandwagon,but nowadays the debriefs talk of....how hard the verbal is,how different the paper is to what was practiced ,how different the questions are in terms of difficulty level.So my question is ....has the GMAC taken cognizance of the fact that test takers rely on a few books and upped its ante ?Is a change in strategy mandatory to tame the unpredictable-G ?

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by Anurag@Gurome » Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:54 pm

Yes and no. The changes in GMAT have been afoot for a while. The test will not only continue to get harder but also will yield a lower percentile score for the same total score. To make sure you are on a level playing field in terms of GMAT test prep, make effective use of this forum and the materials GMAC puts out. That part of the strategy does not change and in fact becomes even more critical now.

What does change is the effort/reward ratio. No longer can you afford to do a perfunctory review of topics that don't interest you. You MUST master all - you never know which topic and what type of question will show up. I tell my students to expect the unexpected - cliched but true.

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by money9111 » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:22 pm

I think they have upped the ante in that they know the tricks that prep companies take and they need to combat that... For instance something as small as the rule for "being" .. some test prep companies said (for a while) that you should just eliminate an SC answer with "Being" in it... well.. now that's not so much the case...

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by Anurag@Gurome » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:28 pm

I completely agree.

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by kevincanspain » Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:06 am

Every year people claim that the exam is getting harder. I take the exam every year and each year I see over 100 of my students take the exam. I see no change in the difficulty level since 2005. Nor can it change, for a 700 from 2006 must mean the same as a 700 from this year. The percentiles do change a bit, though

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by nikhilkatira » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:51 am

money9111 wrote:I think they have upped the ante in that they know the tricks that prep companies take and they need to combat that... For instance something as small as the rule for "being" .. some test prep companies said (for a while) that you should just eliminate an SC answer with "Being" in it... well.. now that's not so much the case...

I agree

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by Dan@VinciaPrep » Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:05 am

kevincanspain wrote:Every year people claim that the exam is getting harder. I take the exam every year and each year I see over 100 of my students take the exam. I see no change in the difficulty level since 2005. Nor can it change, for a 700 from 2006 must mean the same as a 700 from this year. The percentiles do change a bit, though

Indeed, the exam can't change much from year to year. since the scores are valid for 5 years, the test from 5 years ago has to be pretty close to today's test. There is rumor that 99th percentile is now a 770. If confirmed, this will go along with the idea that the good percentile scores are getting tougher to achieve

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