Meaning Issues in Sentence Correction (part 2)

Last week, I wrote about meaning issues in sentence correction, and there’s more to say – so here’s part two of this topic. We’ll keep going till we don’t have anything else to discuss! First and foremost, I want to address something that I keep seeing everywhere – on the forums, in the comments sections [...]

Update from Larry Rudner on Idioms, etc.

Since the GMAT Prep summit, we have been covering what the changes that were described there mean based on what Larry Rudner, GMAC vice president of research and development and chief psychometrician, has told us. Now he has written an official response, which we have re-posted below.  Hopefully this will further clarify what those differences [...]

List of Official Guide Problems that Deal With Meaning

  In this table, we discuss a number of Sentence Correction problems from the OG12. Certain answer choices have “meaning” issues; we list the answer choice letters and provide a brief discussion of the issues involved. Note that this list is not comprehensive and is still in fairly raw form; there are additional problems and [...]

Meaning Issues in Sentence Correction

Recently, we heard from GMAC that it has been testing meaning more often in sentence correction than it used to (this increase started years ago). In the last couple of days, I’ve gone through the first 100 problems in the Official Guide 12th Edition (OG12) so that we can discuss some of these issues. I’ve [...]