As many readers of this blog have likely noticed, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) recently released the 12th edition of its bestselling title, the Official Guide for GMAT Review. Prospective test-takers are anxious to learn if they can glean any insights about the GMAT from the latest edition of the venerable OG. We can save you the suspense: while the latest version of the Official Guide is an indispensible resource for practice questions, it does not provide any definitive conclusions about the evolution of the GMAT itself. Please consider:
The latest version of the Official Guide is not a definitive representation of all that a test-taker needs to know before test day, or even a new standard for GMAT preparation. The 12th edition, in which approximately 2/3 of the questions are identical to those in the 11th edition, remains what GMAC has always intended it to be