GMAT Focus Edition - Everything You Need to Know

Hi. It’s interesting you have some of this data already. Or at least feedback. I haven’t seen the points of this nature.

I don’t know that there’s a straight answer at this time but ever since the announcement of the new focus edition, there was a concern about time on the verbal section because it still has four reading comprehension passages which account for the majority of the questions. As the result ring apprehension contributes the most Value to the verbal score now and historically most people had difficulty with reading comprehension.

And not only most of the questions are now reading comprehension, they might’ve time you have to deal with the ring comprehension questions is no less. Usually people would solve sentence correction and critical reasoning in a minute or a minute and a half and then use the time towards reading comprehension. No you can’t really do that as much…. And finally, I feel sentence correction was the easier of the three question types on the Verbal.

So I would argue that yes verbal section did get harder but not because the questions are harder, instead because sentence correction was removed.

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