[guest1]

Are they trying to save a few trees? They have enough video cameras in the damn rooms to ensure that no one leaves the test center with scratch paper.

Are we supposed to keep erasing our work ? Do we wait for the administrator to walk over with a new board as we watch the clock tick away?

The feel of a marker and board is totally different from scratch work on paper. The morons at GMAC are using test takers in the first few months of 2006 as guinea pigs.

[gmat_guy]

A number of things will be unfamiliar to many people when they take the GMAT.

The thought of sitting down for a test and having your mind working at 100% capacity for nearly 4 hours straight can be a bit difficult. You need to prepare for this. Don't just study in bunch of one hour blocks of time. Be sure you have practice taking the FULL length exam too.

Take representative practice questions (previously administered questions are available). Also, take practice tests delivered in the same computer format. Visit mba.com and be sure to download their GMATPrep software 11th edition. There are books with actual previously administered test questions as well, but be sure supplement these paper resources with some practice on questions delivered via the computer.

Also, I hear they are implementing some new system in 2006 with erasable noteboards instead of scratch paper. I would imagine this would be something you would want to prepare with so you don’t feel strange on the day of the test. Not sure where to buy one of these things though. Hmm, you spend your whole life learning with paper, pencil and then have to switch to erasable notboards before an extremely important exam.