FireShock wrote:
Is there someone who had an exam this year and has
The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2016?
Have you seen in the exam the same questions like in the book?There are thousands examples in the book and only 37 in the exam.
In addition, I've seen at least 4 questions in
the Official Guide 2016 which I had on my exam on January.
Yes, I know that the examples from the book are the collection of the questions from hundreds previous exams and they can be changed a bit.
In other words,
what is the percentage of questions which I can see in the exam on May?Dear
FireShockI'm happy to respond.
My friend, let me tell you something about GMAC, the folks who write the GMAT. The security they keep around their stash of live GMAT questions is comparable to what the British Royalty keeps around the Crown Jewels. The folks at GMAC are not the least bit careless with these questions.
Now, the claim of the OG2016 is that all the questions are "released" questions. The same is true of all the questions in GMAT Prep and all the QPacks. This means that these questions have gone through a process of being released from the highly protected pool, where they were known by no one by GMAC employees, so that they are now publicly known and out in the larger world. This is the test-prep equivalent of
an undercover agent's name being announced in the newspaper. It's an irreversible change. Announce the spy's name in the newspaper, and she never can work as a spy again. Release the question in the
OG or GMAT Prep, and it never can be a live GMAT question again.
The
OG 2016 was already released by January of this year, so I seriously doubt that the four questions you saw on your live GMAT in January were identical to the ones you have spotted in the OG2016. It's possible that it's a different question using, say, the same geometric diagram or the same general subject matter, but I would almost be willing to bet money that none of these questions in the
OG 2016 is an exact copy of a question you saw on the live exam.
When you take your exam in May, how many questions will be identical to questions in the
OG 2016? Zero. Will any questions on the live exam be reminiscent of similar questions in the
OG or in GMAT Prep? Perhaps. It depends, in part, on your mind's ability to connect things by analogy.
In the bigger picture, this is the wrong issue on which to focus. You should focus on understanding this content as deeply as possible.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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