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15 Nov 2022, 18:54
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GMAT Official Guide 2023 is coming March 21, 2023
Not sure if this will hold - it is still a few months away and won't help any of the current season applicants but the new edition of the Official Guide is coming in March 2023.
A few interesting and notable things that may be of interest only to about 5 people on GMAT Club but I am one of those 5 so I will proceed to go through the details
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1. Interesting enough, the book is labeled as Official Guide 2023. Previously books were labeled with a forward-looking year and for example OG 2021 was released in 2020. Similarly OG 2019 was released in 2018 and so on. For all the history buffs, the year labeling started to happen with the 2015 edition. Until that time, OG books were published every 3-4 years. Of course while it is awesome to have a 2015 book in 2014, it is pretty confusing in many aspects (can you use it for the 2014 test? why is this year's book labeled with next year's number? and so on). Frankly, I feel it is silly to label books with next year's date esp if you publish it in the spring. I have the same comment to US News that publishes their 2023 rankings in March of 2022 but that's a whole different rabbit hole.
2. The book weight is declared as 1.47 lbs. Compared to the old editions, that is about 2.5 lbs lighter. Why would this be? I don't feel they can save really on paper and its weight since the book is already approaching Kleenex transparency index and this is way too drastic of a change. So are we going to see 50% of the content migrate online? Or perhaps 50% of content cut? or it is just a placeholder? I tend to think this is a placeholder weight that will be updated once the book is packaged because I saw a few other unpublished books such as GRE for Dummies 2024 and GMAT for Dummies 2024 (which are of course being released in Summer of 2023) have the exactly same weight of 1.47 lbs.... but then the Verbal Guide is declared at 1.11 lbs while usually it is 2.1 lbs. So... why are all the books shrinking?
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3. This year, we did not have an OG and last year the OG 2022 was the exact copy of the OG 2021 which has made quite a few folks bummed, so we have not seen an Official Guide since the beginning of pandemic - May 2020. This will be a 3-year cycle which we have had back in the early 2000's. Curious to see if we will get more new questions than the usual 100 in the previous editions. I would argue that probably so since GMAC seems to have a pretty specific retirement schedule for questions. You can see them come in and out of books on a pretty regular basis and basically all questions are retired within 10 years or so after being introduced into an official guide (this is an approximate figure but I have done some question tracking 3 years ago and there is a clear timeline).
4. Surprised to see it published in March, about a month sooner than the usual timeline. I guess with the timelines and application deadlines shifting it is good to see the schedule shift here as well.
Bottom line: I am excited to see there is a new Official Guide on the way! I just hope it is not super slimmed down version of 1.47 lbs.
Kudos o the GMAC team for planning a book release and publishing a new official guide
This is an important and distinguishing factor of GMAT as opposed to GRE which has a 10-year old book filled with 30-year old questions.
-BB
Not sure if this will hold - it is still a few months away and won't help any of the current season applicants but the new edition of the Official Guide is coming in March 2023.
A few interesting and notable things that may be of interest only to about 5 people on GMAT Club but I am one of those 5 so I will proceed to go through the details
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OG2023.jpg [ 127.03 KiB | Viewed 4842 times ]
1. Interesting enough, the book is labeled as Official Guide 2023. Previously books were labeled with a forward-looking year and for example OG 2021 was released in 2020. Similarly OG 2019 was released in 2018 and so on. For all the history buffs, the year labeling started to happen with the 2015 edition. Until that time, OG books were published every 3-4 years. Of course while it is awesome to have a 2015 book in 2014, it is pretty confusing in many aspects (can you use it for the 2014 test? why is this year's book labeled with next year's number? and so on). Frankly, I feel it is silly to label books with next year's date esp if you publish it in the spring. I have the same comment to US News that publishes their 2023 rankings in March of 2022 but that's a whole different rabbit hole.
2. The book weight is declared as 1.47 lbs. Compared to the old editions, that is about 2.5 lbs lighter. Why would this be? I don't feel they can save really on paper and its weight since the book is already approaching Kleenex transparency index and this is way too drastic of a change. So are we going to see 50% of the content migrate online? Or perhaps 50% of content cut? or it is just a placeholder? I tend to think this is a placeholder weight that will be updated once the book is packaged because I saw a few other unpublished books such as GRE for Dummies 2024 and GMAT for Dummies 2024 (which are of course being released in Summer of 2023) have the exactly same weight of 1.47 lbs.... but then the Verbal Guide is declared at 1.11 lbs while usually it is 2.1 lbs. So... why are all the books shrinking?
Attachment:
OG2023-2.jpg [ 36.09 KiB | Viewed 4830 times ]
3. This year, we did not have an OG and last year the OG 2022 was the exact copy of the OG 2021 which has made quite a few folks bummed, so we have not seen an Official Guide since the beginning of pandemic - May 2020. This will be a 3-year cycle which we have had back in the early 2000's. Curious to see if we will get more new questions than the usual 100 in the previous editions. I would argue that probably so since GMAC seems to have a pretty specific retirement schedule for questions. You can see them come in and out of books on a pretty regular basis and basically all questions are retired within 10 years or so after being introduced into an official guide (this is an approximate figure but I have done some question tracking 3 years ago and there is a clear timeline).
4. Surprised to see it published in March, about a month sooner than the usual timeline. I guess with the timelines and application deadlines shifting it is good to see the schedule shift here as well.
Bottom line: I am excited to see there is a new Official Guide on the way! I just hope it is not super slimmed down version of 1.47 lbs.
Kudos o the GMAC team for planning a book release and publishing a new official guide
This is an important and distinguishing factor of GMAT as opposed to GRE which has a 10-year old book filled with 30-year old questions.
-BB
16 Nov 2022, 06:39
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I guess I'm one of the 5 as well, or maybe there are even 6 of us because I find this information mildly interesting and am excited to see that the choice of the year in the title has some sanity to it.
On another note, I personally would like to see the book slimmed down to 0 pounds and the entire thing migrated to the online question bank. Many people get the book and then use only the question bank. Seems to be such a waste of resources on our stressed-out planet.
On another note, I personally would like to see the book slimmed down to 0 pounds and the entire thing migrated to the online question bank. Many people get the book and then use only the question bank. Seems to be such a waste of resources on our stressed-out planet.
16 Nov 2022, 21:03
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I am all for online access and not stressing out the planet but it is also a bit confusing and baffling when you get online access for $47 for 1 year OR you get a book (forever) along with online access for 1 year for $26. Perhaps I am not smart enough to comprehend this part yet. I am not sure what the reasoning behind these is but until the 1-year rental for $47 stops, people will continue getting the paper copies.
