GMAT Strategy

hi AbhiJ,

While the differences between the OG12 and OG13 are not significant (the OG13 "swapped out" a number of practice questions and includes a section on IR), there IS value in practicing with online/computer-based resources. There are significant differences between studying for hours out of a book and studying for hours on a computer. The Official GMAT will require you to take the Test on a desk-top work-station over the course of about 4 hours. This new "asset" that the New OG includes should be interesting in that it will allow Test Takers to work in the same "format" as the Official GMAT.

Many Test Takers find the physical "mechanics" of taking the GMAT on a computer can sometimes affect their performances. It's not that they don't know how to use a computer, it's that the process "wears them down" so that they're more fatigued by the time they reach the Verbal section and that they make more silly mistakes overall.

As such, however you choose to study (and with whatever combination of resources you opt to use), you should include some online GMAT resources BEYOND the CATs that you take. Those resources will likely help you to better prepare for the GMAT and increase your chances at scoring at a high level.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

dabral wrote: The online question bank consists of the same questions that are present in the two guides.

Cheers,
Dabral

Dear Dabral,
I don't know your source of information. I went through the question in the online version. They are NOT identical to the questions in the OG. I recognize all the questions in the OG, and I didn't see any overlap with the online questions. Some of the online questions I did recognize, from official questions in the forum --- presumably, some of them are recycled from early releases of official questions, perhaps earlier versions of GMAT Prep, for example. I want to make crystal clear, though, the online questions are NOT identical to the question in the hard copy of the OG.

See:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/the-offici ... uide-2015/
Similarly, for the previous vs. 2015 editions of the OG Verbal & Quant reviews. See:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2014/the-gmat-o ... iew-books/

Does all this make sense?
Mike

dabral wrote:Mike,

Can you post some screenshots of problems that are in the online bank but are different from the official guide?

This is what mba.com has to say:
"Please note: Content in The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 2015 is the same as the content in the 13th Edition. The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 2015 offers new video content and access to the NEW online section of the book, but no new questions."

The link to mba.com: https://www.mba.com/us/store/store-catal ... -2015.aspx

Cheers,
Dabral

Dear Dabral,
My mistake! I'm sorry! When I looked at the first few questions of each type, I didn't recognize them from the respective sections in the OG, but I didn't realize that these first few were pulled from the Diagnostic section of the OG! Yes, apparently all the online questions are identical the questions in the print copies, both the 2015 editions and the earlier editions.
Very sorry about any confusion.
Mike