Hi There,
I took the gmat on Apr 29th.. I was really surprised at the "scrap paper", because I didn't expect it at all! It kind of threw me in the beginnning.
I received not a dry erase board, but laminated yellow paper. The pens were sort of fine time marker type pens, and the first one I had, had a completely messed up tip! So I had to ask for a new pen.
Anyway, the "paper" itself was okay -- but my major issue was that there were only 4 sheets given at a time (so front and back, there were 8 sides)... this was NOT enough for me, for the math section -- during my practices I went through 14-16 sides of paper...
The test center lady would not give me another stack right at the beginning, and told me to ask for more, when I had finished with the first stack...
It was very irritating, because during the exam, she wasn't looking in the test room, and I had to continue my test using little spaces on the paper... I had to keep looking back at the window section, to see if she was looking -- it was not helpful at all..
And of course, my hands got ink all over them.. .
So all in all, if you don't let it phase you, it's okay -- it also helps if you have really small handwriting
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Regards,
Sangita.