Official Guide for GMAT review - Edition 11 is out

sinharohit · **Re: ur OG request -** 10-01-2006, 06:28 PM

Hi ,
I am in need og GMAT 10th edition , can anybody send it to my personal mail account

My mail id it " sinharohit@gmail.com""

rohit

Champaka Navile · 09:20 PM

Hi Folks,

Found this information on Manhattan Forum...thought it would be useful....to get the absolute figures on the no of questions and difference btw the 10th and 11th editions of the OG....

Read on..

In the summer of 2005, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released a much awaited update to the Official Guide for GMAT Review, 10th edition. Perhaps the proper term, however, would be updates, as the replacement came in the form of 3 books:
The Official Guide For GMAT Review, 11th edition and 2 supplemental books -
The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review and The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review.
While the updates come after a five year stint for the 10th edition and many predicted that the new guide(s) would have all new retired GMAT questions, the results were somewhat surprising.
The most salient changes involve a rehashing of the explanations
(NOTE: the following changes apply to all three books).

Quant Side

The problem solving questions are illustrated with more step-by-step solutions. While there seems to be little change as far as the approach taken (i.e. how to solve), the Guide now categorizes each problem by topic (e.g. properties of numbers, geometry area, etc), and the physical layout of each problem is much easier to read.

Data Sufficiency

The solutions are also more logically organized by statement. Statement (1) is addressed, deemed sufficient or insufficient and then statement (2) is dealt with similarly in a separate paragraph. This makes the process of solving data sufficiency much clearer.

Verbal Side

The explanations were overhauled to even greater extent. It seems that the authors have recognized the student's need to clearly understand why each wrong answer choice is wrong because the explanations are now organized by answer choice. This much welcomed change allows the student to practice the systematic elimination of wrong answer choices that is so vital to success on the verbal section of the GMAT.
Topic categories are also assigned to each question in all three verbal question types.

To this end, Reading comprehension

questions are officially divided into six types: main idea, supporting ideas, inference, application (of information), logical structure and style/tone.

Likewise Critical reasoning

the questions are separated into one of three categories: argument construction, argument evaluation and evaluation of a plan. Perhaps even more noteworthy, are the situation and reasoning sections included in each critical reasoning explanation. The situation section recaps the argument in fewer words and the reasoning section highlights the logic involved in solving the question.

Sentence correction

There are eight grammatical issues by which the questions are identified (many are tagged with more than one issue). The explanation begins with an overview of all of the errors that occur, not only in answer choice A, but also in the other four answer choices. Then the answer choices are listed one-by-one with their respective errors. The new format offers greater readability and utility.

Complete Comparision of Questions( In terms of repeated and new Types)

How many of the questions in the 3 new Official Guides are the same as those in their predecessor, The Official Guide to GMAT Review, 10th edition?
On the math side, the 10th edition included 441 problem solving and 274 data sufficiency. Of those, 328 of the problem solving and 215 of the data sufficiency show up in either the 11th edition or the Quantitative Review.
In addition, the 11th edition offers 121 unique problem solving and 82 unique data sufficiency questions. This amounts to a net gain of 8 problem solving and 23 data sufficiency in the new editions. It is worth noting that The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review contains no new questions; it is completely redundant to the 10th edition. All of the unique questions in the new guides appear in The Official Guide For GMAT Review, 11th edition.

On the verbal side, 201 of the 10th edition's 268 sentence correction questions appear in the new guides, along with 67 new questions in the 11th edition. In critical reasoning, 160 of the 205 questions in the 10th edition appear in the new guides, along with 63 new questions in the 11th edition. This amounts to a net gain of 18 critical reasoning questions. Lastly in reading comprehension, 33 of the 48 passages from the 10th edition are represented in the new guides, along with 11 new passages. This represents a net loss of 4 passages in the new guides.
In terms of the difficulty level of the new questions the 11th edition, it seems that the 11th editions are comparable to the 10th. While a few of the hardest questions from the 10th edition have disappeared, they seem to have been replaced by a fair number of difficult questions at the end of the 11th edition's data sufficiency and problem solving sections, as well as in the new 100-question diagnostic section at the beginning of the book.

A significant added benefit to the 11th edition and the two supplemental books is the GMAC's claim that the questions in each section are arranged by increasing level of difficulty. The cautious student should keep in mind, however, that this is only an assertion made by GMAC.

As a final note on the new materials available from GMAC to prepare for the GMAT in 2006, the GMAC has made available new software to emulate the test-taking experience. The software includes five 15-question practice sections and 2 adaptive practice exams. There appears to be no overlap between the questions for the two exams and the questions contained in three new Official Guides. The software also matches the format of the new exam, administered by Pearson Vue testing centers, in terms of font, color scheme, and screen layout.

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Krrish

Hello Everybody,
I ve got my final call from ISB, based on my CAt score, got to give my GMAT before MAr 10, I ve no material to prepare for the same. Can somebody give me a soft copy of OG verbal section. or if anybody is willing to sell there OG.
Can anybody tell me where can I get the OG in Ahmedabad? M based with L&T, in baroda.
Please let me know as soon as possible.
Thanks to everybody in advance yaar.

desire it

Congrats dude!!
U made it to ISB!! I dreamed of it too. I am sorry I don't have the OG, but i can send you the verbal part.
CAn you share what all you did to get thru ISB?
I am quite eager to know.

Krrish

Hi did nothign much to get there than attendign the interview with, help of all PGs makign it easier, just go through the experiences of interview thread yaar, that should give a clear picture of how the interview is.
And as for the OG its the verbal section that I require the most right now. Please do send me the same. My email is krrishn@gmail.com

Thanks yaar

nonedone

Hello,
Well due to some wonderful planning on my part, I ended up getting 2 copies of The Official Guide to GMAT. It usually retails for around 1700 in Bombay, but I got 2 copies at 1400 each. I have an extra, unused one now and if anyone is interested, they can buy it off me at cost. It's brand new and completely untouched. You can check it out before you buy it just to make sure it's new.. I live in Lokhandwala, Andheri (Bombay people only, I'm not couriering this) so PM me if you're interested.