"We will be accepting scores from the GMAT Focus when this newly released version replaces the legacy GMAT on January 31, 2024. We will not be accepting the GMAT Focus from the intervening period of approximately 15 weeks between its release in October 2023 and its merger with the legacy GMAT at the end of January 2024."Source: https://executivemba.wharton.upenn.edu/ ... utive-mba/Does Wharton know something that we don't know? Can anyone find confirmation of this 1/31/24 date on the GMAC or MBA.com websites?
Assuming the information cited by Wharton is correct,
the "classic" GMAT will remain an option for fewer than 6 more months before being officially retired at the end of January 2024—at which time the transition to the GMAT Focus will be complete.
Thus, the classic GMAT preparation clock is ticking for those of you who are skilled at Sentence Correction, Geometry, AWA, and (to a lesser extent) Data Sufficiency, which has gone from 13 counted questions to only 5 on the Focus (
see table above).
Why else should you hurry up and prepare for / take the GMAT now, before it changes? Maybe you dislike Integrated Reasoning-style questions and the idea of their counting toward your composite aka total score on the Focus Edition (via the new Data Insights section). Maybe you're mystified as to why GMAT Focus scores (205-805)
have been drastically deflated in comparison to classic GMAT scores (200-800) of the same percentile. Maybe a shorter test with fewer questions and no AWA doesn't mean that much to you, because your endurance / writing ability is not an issue.
GMAT scores of all types are valid for 5 years. Tick-tock...

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