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FBaggins

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11. Then let me correct/clarify
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 09:09 PM
Dec 2011

The "practice tests" that I found on their website are the actual tests from prior years.

For the real thing, students all get a different test, based on their early answers. If they do well early, they get fewer, but more complex questions. If they don't, they get more, but simpler questions.

That's more like the current GMAT and (I think) GRE tests. I happen to like that plan, but have no opinion on whether that's ideal for this level.

That last part, however, wouldn't be good news for this individual were it true - since he confesses to not knowing how to do any of the questions. Presumably he would be getting easier and easier questions as he went along.

On edit - a verifiable record of practice tests being insufficiently like the actual test would be a FAR better criticism of the standardized tests than this guy's ignorance... since presumably a high percentage of FL students significantly outperform him.

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