Beijing New Oriental School

[Aristotle]

I just got a hold of software that runs exactly like powerprep from the Beijing New Oriental School.Supposedly this new oriental school just had a judgement against them from ETS and GMAC for 1.2 million because they were having people sit to take the exam just to memorize questions for their software and classroom courses.It has a lot more practice questions and although there are only 2 computer-adaptive tests- when I reran the 1st computer adaptive test it gave me a new 1st question so I am supposing that there are really more than 2 computer-adaptive tests since it randomly gave me a new question #1.It lets you review at the end however I am not sure if it gives you a scaled score at the end 200-800 - I will have to check it out.I also found chinese sites where people who have just taken the GMAt will post questions that they remember.Plus I downloaded more chinese quantitative and verbal questions in pdf format.I have too much stuff to study besides the OG which I purchased 2 weeks ago.I guess thats a good thing since this test is based on practice, practice, and more practice.I will post some interesting quantitative questions from the software in the future.

[Erin]

One of my students gave me a copy of the GMAT PowerPrep from New Oriental with Chinese explanations, but I didn't go through it to look for non-OG questions.

The PowerPrep is made with Macromedia's Authorware, and last I heard, there was no way to decompile the software. It's possible that New Oriental has simply come up with their own software package.

[Aristotle]

yes - This is definitely made by New Oriental School - I am curious as to whether the questions contained in it are found in old GMAT paper tests or elsewhere.

[Erin]

Hard to say without seeing the software. However, if it does contain other questions, then I imagine the score would not be reliable, as it would be very difficult to reproduce GMAT's scoring algorithm.