List of Words used in the Official Guide 12

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Perhaps someone can do something useful with this - here is a list of words (with frequency of usage) that is encountered in the GMAT Official Guide 12 A total of 6668 words. P.S. My ideas was to create a list of "useful" words from the GMAT but it has proven harder than I thought. The words are fairly common and comparing it against frequently used words (here for example: https://www.insightin.com/esl/) has not yielded any great results. Perhaps somebody else can think of something useful to do with these....

Pinali · Answer

Thanks bb for posting this :thumbup:

bb · Answer

Sure! And if you can figure out how to make these useful (e.g. boil them down to a shorter list), you will be a very popular person

Pinali · Answer

I will see if I can do it. I will be very glad to be any help to this club in any possible way

It is just that I am currently trying to focus more on studying math right now ... 29th October is the Exam date :peek

and I have finished just 1 book of MGMAT yet :roll:

BM · Answer

I think that it's important to provide this list, as it provides members with a fuller range of options and information. But I'm not too sure what else we could do to improve it.

I guess we could make a GMATClub vocabulary workbook with pictures, sentences, and practice problems (multiple choice, fill in the blank). Such a project might be somewhat helpful for those whose first language wasn't English.

Here's an example. I used this book for studying upper-level Japanese vocabulary. Just click on the book image and scroll down a bit to see my idea.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C ... pd_sim_b_1

And now for negative side. This project would require many people and a very long time. Plus, English vocabulary books are already available. If someone needed that much help with English, then it would be better to study those resources and perhaps even enroll in a language course. My idea is probably unrealistic, but it's all I have at the moment. :oops:

gurpreetsingh · Answer

Thanks BB, this will certainly help me in learning more words frequently used in CR/RC.

But how this sheet was created? I m intrigued.

bb · Answer

Well, first you get the OG 12 into electronic format, then you run a word analyzer on it, and then you dump it into excel and order based on frequency - that's really it - pretty easy

If you are interested, I can dump the word counts just for the RC section - here you go.

gurpreetsingh · Answer

It seems to be easy, but how you got electronic format of OG12? I think only hard copies are available in the market.

takeiteasy · Answer

Thank you for the list!

Pinali · Answer

you simply rock bb ! :cool

Shoumik · Answer

I got an electronic copy of the OG 12 from torrentz...

carcass · Answer

i think this kind of link are outlaw/illegal. against the rules of this board.

Shoumik · Answer

you are right...edited.

Gilenguyen · Answer

You always rock with useful and practical posts, bb! 1 kudo

bb · Answer

Bump. I just got kudos from someone for this very old thread. Perhaps someone else will find it useful...

Posted from my mobile device

Mo2men · Answer

Great and hard effort :thumbup:

List of Words used in the Official Guide 12

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