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  Yesterday was the 4th GMAC Test Prep Summit (GMAC is the organization that
makes the GMAT) and we’ve got all sorts of interesting things to tell you. We
’ll share a couple of highlights with you today; check back on Monday for a
longer post.

Many students have been reporting that Sentence Correction on the real test
has been feeling… different this year. We had some theories as to what was
changing, and we were able to get confirmation yesterday from Dr. Larry
Rudner, who is in charge of psychometrics for GMAC (or, in less fancy
language, he’s the one who’s responsible for the overall development and
construction of the test).

They’ve been writing more Sentence Corrections that emphasize issues
surrounding meaning. There are more questions now in which two or more
answers are grammatically correct, but only one maintains the meaning of the
original question stem. There are already some examples of this in the
existing, released materials (more about this on Monday), but these didn’t
used to be as common. According to Larry, these are becoming more and more
common – so those who are focusing primarily on grammar without paying much
attention to meaning are going to find the real test a lot harder.

Larry also told us that they are moving towards completely phasing out
idioms! They don’t want to penalize non-native speakers for things that don’
t really interfere with comprehension and communication, so they are moving
away from idioms entirely. When we asked how common idioms still are right
now and when they would be gone completely, he said that “ideally” he hopes
they’re all gone already, but there may still be some in the pool – it
takes time to scrub the questions completely. So that’s big news – we
really shouldn’t be worrying about idioms any longer!

We’re still poring through all of the material we heard and were given
yesterday, so we’ll have more for you on Monday, but we wanted to get these
tidbits out ASAP because they’ll definitely impact how we study going
forward. Check back again on Monday for the rest of our news and analysis
from the GMAC Summit.

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