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Thanks a lot bb for the analysis. It will really help before digging into the practice tests. Can u throw some insight over the similarity between hard questions from GMAT prep and Official GMAT guide questions??
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Thanks a lot bb for the analysis. It will really help before digging into the practice tests. Can u throw some insight over the similarity between hard questions from GMAT prep and Official GMAT guide questions??
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I have not done that analysis yet. I have a few ideas where to take this if this topic is popular enough. I can look at the exam packs and test three and four verses one and two and also compare tests three and four verses five and six. We can also look at official guide versus GMAT prep. There’s a lot of data crunching we can do but it takes a long time to clean the data and format It nicely. It all takes time :-)
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Ya it's time consuming task. Thanks though brother. It is quite a work you have done.
I could help in some way. 🙂👏👏👏👏

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Ya it's time consuming task. Thanks though brother. It is quite a work you have done.
I could help in some way. 🙂👏👏👏👏

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Thank you! If you have decent excel or data analysis skills, you can do the analysis of the OG 2021 by accessing the error log here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1125727705 - it has all the tags and difficulty in it, so you can access it and work on it - make a copy and the key task is to split the tags so that you only have 1 tag per cell (I also copy the whole line with each tag so that I also have difficulty and type) and then do a Pivot so that you can get the data summarized by tag/topic and by difficulty. You may know how to do this in a better than than I can... my way seems slow :| . If not, I can get to it next week.
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Cool...I will try on this weekend..👍😎

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Cool...I will try on this weekend..👍😎

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Have you gotten anywhere with the OG comparison? :blushing:
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Cool...I will try on this weekend..👍😎

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Have you gotten anywhere with the OG comparison? :blushing:


Yup... started working on it...got busy with other engagement along with it.... hopefully share the work asap🤞😎
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Cool...I will try on this weekend..👍😎

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Have you gotten anywhere with the OG comparison? :blushing:


Yup... started working on it...got busy with other engagement along with it.... hopefully share the work asap🤞😎

Thanks! If not, I can do it over the weekend and post it on Monday.
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Thank you for this. Can you do something similar to this for people who find quant challenging? :(
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Yes... there is a link in the very first line of the very first post at the very top. 😢

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Have you gotten anywhere with the OG comparison? :blushing:


Yup... started working on it...got busy with other engagement along with it.... hopefully share the work asap🤞😎

Thanks! If not, I can do it over the weekend and post it on Monday.
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Hi BB, did you end up completing this? Would love to see what you've found. Thanks!
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Hi Bb,

Thanks for this wonderful article!!

I think there have been a lot of changes in the Online GMAT exam, in terms of the topic weightages and types of questions asked , specially for the SC Section in Verbal. I think the scoring also seems much stricter.

If you also found any updates about the online version of GMAT ,I'd love to see them as it seems clearly the Online GMAT is not aligned with the question types and weightages reflected in the Official Mocks , and is much different.

Always grateful for your help!
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I have analyzed GMAT Prep, not actual GMAT Test. Therefore, you will never see what you would love to see :lol:

P.S. Sorry for a snarky answer :angel: - here is the longer one.
There are over 1,000 questions in Quant and Verbal sections of the GMAT Prep software - you have a lot of variability available even there. I think some of the changes experienced and reported by users come mostly from the changes to the question banks/databases of the tests. Sometimes there are mostly medium and easy questions and sometimes more of the harder type. However, it is very challenging to tell and judge changes based on test-taking experience. I know I could not trust myself. From my own experience, I thought i was failing my verbal and every question I answered, I was not sure if I was answering it correctly or not. I was failing every single one of them and expected a V30 but got a V42, 96th percentile. So I would have been a pretty bad judge of the experience.... so unfortunately we have to rely on the GMAT Prep results and it is possible as you indicate that it is not an exact copy of the test experience but we do not know that or how much or how little GMAT Prep resembles the actual test besides what we are told by the GMAC. At the same time, there are clear patterns between GMAT Prep and Official Tests but they are not exact ... I do hear people raise concerns but those are not the majority. Not sure if you like the answer but I don't think GMAC is trying to be devious or modify algorithm for some devious reasons. I don't think they are motivated to do that.


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Hi Bb,

Thanks for this wonderful article!!

I think there have been a lot of changes in the Online GMAT exam, in terms of the topic weightages and types of questions asked , specially for the SC Section in Verbal. I think the scoring also seems much stricter.

If you also found any updates about the online version of GMAT ,I'd love to see them as it seems clearly the Online GMAT is not aligned with the question types and weightages reflected in the Official Mocks , and is much different.

Always grateful for your help!
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I think there have been a lot of changes in the Online GMAT exam, in terms of the topic weightages and types of questions asked , specially for the SC Section in Verbal. I think the scoring also seems much stricter.

Hopefully this provides a bit of insight:

"The GMAT™ online exam uses the same scoring algorithm and score scale for the Section Scores and Total Score as the test center-based version. This ensures scores are compatible and comparable across the online and test center-based versions." - mba.com

How to get a V40 or higher on the GMAT? What about a V51?
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Thanks for the input bb,

I think even though there isn't any reason for us to suspect any pattern/scoring/algorithmic differences in Online & Center Based GMAT exams. But I would still ,strongly advise any test taker to opt for Center Based Test over Online one. There are other reasons for that including technical issues apart from suspicion of algorithm changes.

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Would it be possible to introduce a "Likelihood of Encounter by Topic" section specifically for RC questions as well? While it's commonly assumed that 'Primary Purpose' questions appear most frequently, followed by 'Detail' and 'Inference' questions, stats. to support these claims seems to be lacking. Having stats. on this could provide valuable insights.
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