Is this true?......Please confirm

[sgmat]

Hey All....is it true that GMAC has reduced the time of breaks between the sections from 10 min to 5 min now.........Please confirm....

i think earlier it was 10 min break after each section.....

Thanks!
SGMAT

[abhishek_mumbai]

I think it was always 5 minutes.. Wasn't it? I got my 5 mins when I did GMATPrep.

[adi_800]

the brk was for 10 minutes....
dont know whether nything has changed...

[Daan]

It depends on the test center.
I specifically asked at my test center how long the breaks were, as I personally thought 5 minutes was hardly enough time if I had to take a stress-induced bathroom break ;-)

Their standard was 10 minutes, so it was fine.

PS
I took my GMAT the 22nd of june this year, so quite recently. On the GMAC website at that time, they indeed mentioned 5 minute breaks.

[anshumania]

10 minutes it is.

[sgmat]

thanks for the updates

However if you check the GMAT format in OG 12 it says that break are for 5 min...

So i think they have reduced the break time from 10 to 5......

Regards,
SGMAT

[Daan]

Don't worry,

OG 11 says the same. Again, I just took the GMAT with my OG 11 stating 5 minutes and all the online documents stating 5 mins. But at the test center, everyone got 10 minutes.

[kingsingh]

Now it is confirmed that GMAC has reduced the break duration from 10 mins to 8 mins.

Here is the link to the article I am referring to : Manhattan GMAT Blog Blog Archive GMAT Breaks Shorter as of July 17th

Don't know why it has reduced the time, but it's a bad news for us (at least for me)

[armado]

I bought the latest version of OG 12 where it is mentioned as 5 min