Sunday, July 13, 2008
Is Intelligence increasing?
Today in the field of science and education we are making daily progress. The world today is filled with more intelligent and smarter equipment. Does it mean that people are becoming more intelligent then earlier times or does it shows that we are making use of the earlier discoveries and thinking that we are getting smarter.
I recently started with GMAT preparation and soon discovered that Official Guide(OG) 11th edition is out of market. Test taker ranks the OG as the best material to prepare for GMAT and consider that solving this book as many times as possible is the best way to secure high score in test. The absence of OG forced me to look for other alternative. luckily the OG verbal extension and Quant extensions were available and I started with these. To my best surprise I found to be more accurate than I ever thought in CR(critical reasoning) and RC(Reading comprehension), SC(sentence correction) brought me down to earth. I could not get a hold of copy of book and in the mean while i was running out of the options. The OG 10th edition is easily available on the Internet to download.
One fine day I gave the print of OG 10th edition and decided to start with it. As I moved ahead I noticed that most of the question were part of OG 11th edition verbal extension. Friends and all the user brought to my notice that OG 10th is older and outdated and easy. So does this mean that questions earlier were easy and it was easier to get a high score earlier. The OG 11th consist of complex questions and induces higher error. Does this indicate the its getting tougher.
Looking from other view, As with the course of time methods of preparation has improved, making it easier to solve the previously known questions type, new questions more complex and difficult to find the same known question pattern are getting introduced by test-takers. This indicates that test takers are looking for an individual who are also adaptive to the test.
So is intelligence really increasing as we are finding the difficult questions or is it due to fact that we are being brought to same level by test takers who is aware of the facilities available for our preparation
I recently started with GMAT preparation and soon discovered that Official Guide(OG) 11th edition is out of market. Test taker ranks the OG as the best material to prepare for GMAT and consider that solving this book as many times as possible is the best way to secure high score in test. The absence of OG forced me to look for other alternative. luckily the OG verbal extension and Quant extensions were available and I started with these. To my best surprise I found to be more accurate than I ever thought in CR(critical reasoning) and RC(Reading comprehension), SC(sentence correction) brought me down to earth. I could not get a hold of copy of book and in the mean while i was running out of the options. The OG 10th edition is easily available on the Internet to download.
One fine day I gave the print of OG 10th edition and decided to start with it. As I moved ahead I noticed that most of the question were part of OG 11th edition verbal extension. Friends and all the user brought to my notice that OG 10th is older and outdated and easy. So does this mean that questions earlier were easy and it was easier to get a high score earlier. The OG 11th consist of complex questions and induces higher error. Does this indicate the its getting tougher.
Looking from other view, As with the course of time methods of preparation has improved, making it easier to solve the previously known questions type, new questions more complex and difficult to find the same known question pattern are getting introduced by test-takers. This indicates that test takers are looking for an individual who are also adaptive to the test.
So is intelligence really increasing as we are finding the difficult questions or is it due to fact that we are being brought to same level by test takers who is aware of the facilities available for our preparation
# posted by Ravi Shekhar : 1:26 AM
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