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Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed?

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Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed? [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2023, 13:13
Trying to settle a debate with a friend. What was the order before it became allowed to choose? Was it the same as the current default: Quant, Verbal, IR, AWA?
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Re: Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed? [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2023, 13:16
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AWA, IR, Quant, Verbal

It wasn't a great order since you used up energy on AWA and IR before you got to the two sections that really matter.
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Re: Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed? [#permalink] New post   09 Nov 2023, 11:28
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AWA, IR, Quant, Verbal

It wasn't a great order since you used up energy on AWA and IR before you got to the two sections that really matter.


Thanks for the reply! Really interesting that they got people starting with the two sections that schools don't really care about.
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Re: Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed? [#permalink] New post   09 Nov 2023, 11:36
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Really interesting that they got people starting with the two sections that schools don't really care about.

Yeah, I guess they weren't really considering that test-takers don't care about those sections. They were sort of just listing the sections.
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Re: Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed? [#permalink] New post   09 Nov 2023, 12:14
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Really interesting that they got people starting with the two sections that schools don't really care about.


Would be interesting to hear what adcoms/ex-adcoms think about it, since IR was developed with input from business schools.

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Re: Historical question: what was GMAT order before choosing was allowed? [#permalink] New post   09 Nov 2023, 15:56
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Hi iceiceevie,

Even prior to the introductio of IR, the section-order of the GMAT was 'fixed': Argument Essay, Issue Essay, Quant, Verbal - AND the test was longer (45 mins for the Issue Essay and the Q/V sections were 75 minutes each).

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