What's New at GMAT Club?

Tuesday Update:

TOEFL Forum was started today
https://gmatclub.com/forum/toefl-143/

Please join me in welcoming Pathfinder_77 as the first Moderator of the TOEFL Forum

A number of things have happened:

1. Probably most important is the RSS feed is live:
rss-forum-feeds-at-gmatclub-com-are-l-i-v-e-79728.html

2. New additions to the Forum Functionality:
new-features-added-to-the-forum-79604.html

3. Post on how to write Math Formulas and Expressions in the Forum:
writing-mathematical-symbols-in-posts-79643.html

4. New Initiative to create Tags for Verbal and Math Forums:
subcategories-for-sc-forum-79695.html

Oops - I have not posted an updated for a little while and there has been so much happening. I guess I have more time for updates where are fewer developments


- We added a twitter link to the site
https://twitter.com/gmat_club

- New RSS Functionality - I know i mentioned it last time, but this is an upgrade. Now you can subscribe to any Forum to be notified of new Topics or Replies posted
create_syndication.php

- New text formatting options added (edit, strikethrough, textarea buttons in the edit/post topic window)

- New Ratings functionality added - any user can put a rating next to any resource/item/question. Use the rating1 button in the Post Window[rating1]yellow/847474848837278439596684[/rating1]
- Added ability to hide answers/text like this:

- New post on Timing Strategies for Quant
timing-strategies-on-the-gmat-80176.html

- Study Plan - how to get over the 700 Hump
gmat-study-plan-go-from-650-to-80235.html

- Pathfinder has been promoted to the Moderator of the GMAT Forum

- Nookway has been promoted to the Moderator of the Quant Questions Forum

- We have a new survey coming - not public yet, but here is a sneak peek
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=h ... 428w_3d_3d

Update:

1. We have a new easy to use menu that spans across the website

2. Just added a new diagnostic test
gmat-diagnostic-test-quest-for-best-gmat-diagnostic-test-79502.html

3. Updated a thread on Best GMAT Books:
top-gmat-prep-books-guides-reviews-comments-77703.html

4. A few projects started, soon to be announced

GMAT club is perhaps older than my beyblades
It's may be because of my love for history or something else, but you could make a book on GMAT Club's development alone bb

Wow. You found and old topic. Fun things. Some of these things sound so basic and hard to imagine we did not have them

Posted from my mobile device

Yes I found yet another old topic lol,
Yes it's brilliant, seriously, including a few more options and it'll be way better than Facebook; wait, don't tell me you made it before zuckerberg and the friend he betrayed came up with facebook...
That'd be dope

Here is a quick summary from the past few days to get us caught up:

- New sticky thread initiated in this forum: Have a Suggestion? Post It Here
t76017-have-a-suggestion-post-it-here

- Several new suggestions for the site were submitted
t76017-have-a-suggestion-post-it-here

- Voting to changing the Verbal forum structure initiated based on one of the submitted suggestions. Voting ends on 3/5/09 at 7 PM Pacific. t76099-vote-should-we-change-the-structure-of-verbal-gmat-forum

- New sticky thread in the verbal forum - Fiction Books to Read to Improve Verbal Score (helpful especially for non-native speakers)
t76079-books-to-read-improve-verbal-score-and-enjoy-a-good-read

- Some reviews cleaned up in the Reviews Forum and a new thread stickied: Recommendations for Best GMAT Prep Books - post your book recommendations here if you have a suggestion.
t74310-recommendations-for-best-gmat-prep-books

- This forum got renamed from Support to reflect it's true purpose to Suggestions - Announcements - Support

- Frequently Asked Questions about GMAT sticky was created
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Some updates over the weekend:

1. New Master Thread created - Good Books to Read Prior to MBA - book discussions and recommendations from GMAT Club members on topics such as Finance, Investment Banking, Economics, Fiction .... and Even some Poker books - those MBA types, always looking to work the system.
t74557-good-books-to-read-prior-to-mba-mba-books-master-thread

2. Added easy navigation links ("breadcrumbs") to the bottom of the forum page

3. Added a search box to the top of every forum - this allows to run a one-click search within that forum only - image attached

Thursday Update:

We have a new post about how to use Chat covering the fundamentals but we will be building it up with time:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/t76284-how-to-use-chat

The voting on the verbal forum ended and we'll be restructuring the forums over the weekend
https://gmatclub.com/forum/p574442-vote-should-we-change-the-structure-of-verbal-gmat-forum?t=76099

Friday Update:

We are working on building an iPod Touch/iPhone GMAT Application. If you would like to get involved or provide your comments on the suggested feature set - now is the perfect time. We would also need some testers later down the road.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/p574851-iphone-gmat-application-need-your-help#p574851

Late Night Friday Update:

The verbal forum has been split into 3 sections: CR, RC, and SC

Weekend Update:

We started a new project - Top 20 on GMAT Club - a popularity ranking. We count number of times a certain term is mentioned, such as a book name, a school, or anything and provide you with the latest trends in the Test Prep and MBA communities.

First out is the ranking of GMAT Books - this is all-time Top 20, but starting April 1st, we will be keeping track of all books on a month to month basis.

First Edition of Most Popular GMAT Books is Out:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/p576892-top-20-best-gmat-books-on-gmat-club

I think the question you should be asking is not only is it close to the real experience, but what level of difficulty are you aiming for?? It's quite possible that somebody that scores 99% V will give you a different response than somebody that scores 70% V. I think if you can frame it the way that MGMAT does (700-800 level, 600-700 level, etc), that would be helpful as you analyze your results and create new questions.

I think the question you should be asking is not only is it close to the real experience, but what level of difficulty are you aiming for?? It's quite possible that somebody that scores 99% V will give you a different response than somebody that scores 70% V. I think if you can frame it the way that MGMAT does (700-800 level, 600-700 level, etc), that would be helpful as you analyze your results and create new questions.[/quote]

Very good point
Main reason I did not ask about difficulty is that I did not provide the answer choices yet - that's next step

Gotcha. I may not have been entirely clear in my initial response (happens regularly . I wasn't referring to “answer choices” as in A,B,C,D,E, but answers in response to the question you are asking.

How cloose is this question to the Real GMAT or Official Guide?

Is not close at all
Is not close
Is average/undecided
Is close
Is exact match

Somebody that regularly scores 99% V may say "Is not close", when a person that scores 70% V may say "Is close" if the difficultly level is a 650 level question. Reason being is that the 99% V person isn't seeing 650 difficulty level questions on the exam. I suppose that's what I was getting at. Make sense?

Perfectly Clear - I almost got that from the first post - I am not as fast