Verbal Section: Recently getting harder?

It does make sense that they would try to do this to the test since if you look at stats the scores are increasing. A 750 used to be 99% and now its 98%. The further you go down it can be even more pronounced. The test will lose its purpose if everyone is getting 700+ and they probably want to maintain the mean and median about where they have traditionally been. So if suddenly the mean is a 600 then they are going to have to make the test more difficult to bring it back down to where it needs to be.

Personally I do think that I saw more difficult questions than many in the end of the OG sections. Also the old paper tests were a cake walk compared to the CATs. In the paper tests I practiced I got 770-790 on most while I got a 740 on the real test and I definitely had more difficult quesitons on the real CAT test. Having the test get harder is good though since it keeps the value of a 700+ score. In ten years imagine how it would feel to think you would have to have a 770 to apply to any top 10 school, much like everyone feels a 700 is a requirement now Hell, thats how half the Indian applicants already feel and look at the pressure some of them put on themselves to retake following a 730.