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上海GMAT考场位置：

GMAT考试场次

一般来讲，除了系统维护和节假日外，GMAT考场每周一到周五都可以接纳考生考试，每天可以安排3场考试，分别是上午9点，下午1点半和晚上5点半。

GMAT考试当天的注意事项：

1.         考试当天考生应于考试预约时间30分钟前抵达考场。根据规定，GMAT考生迟于考试预约时间15分钟以上到达考场则被视为迟到，迟到的考生将可能被拒绝参加考试。
(If you arrive more than 15 minutes after your scheduled appointment time, you may not be admitted and your entire test fee will be forfeited.)

2.         考生参加GMAT考试时，必须携带本人有效期内的护照。考试当天无法向考场管理员出示护照的考生，将被拒绝进入考场考试。从2009年开始，考场会陆续改造，从验指纹变成验掌纹。(The test administrator will digitally take your fingerprint, signature, and/or palm vein pattern, and photograph.)

3.         考试期间，考生不得将与本次考试无关的物品带入考试室（可以带入考场，但不可以带入考试室），包括但不仅限于：手机、掌上电脑/PDA或其他任何电子设备、传呼机、手表、钱包、手袋、帽子、背包、大衣/外套、书籍和学习资料等等。考生须将所携带的个人物品在考前一律存放在考场提供的储物柜中（手机或传呼机须关机或置于静音状态）。考生在考试期间应随身带好所分配的储物柜的钥匙，并在考试结束后带齐所有物品离场。考场对个人物品的遗失、被盗不承担责任。

4.         考场将向考生提供GMAT专用的可擦写板和笔用于草稿和演算。考试正式开始后，考生方可使用考场提供的可擦写板和笔。考试结束时，考生应主动将其归还给考场管理员。考生不得将考场提供的可擦写板和笔带离考场，否则将被视为考生违规。

5.         考生将由考场管理员安排在指定座位参加考试。考试期间如需帮助或休息，请举手示意考场管理员。考生不得擅自离开考试座位。考生每次进出考试室必须由考场管理员陪同。

6.         考生须接受GMAT保密协议和通用条款中的所有内容，方可继续进行考试。

7.         为保证考试的高度安全性，考场管理员将全程监考。考生考试全过程将被录音、录像。

8.         考试期间，考生遇到任何计算机硬件或软件问题，应立即举手示意考场管理员以寻求帮助。

9.         考试室内不得吃食品、喝水/饮料、吸烟及大声喧哗。考试休息期间，考生不得从储物柜中拿取除食物、饮料以外的任何物品（如手机、学习资料/书籍等等）。考试休息期间，考生不得离开指定的活动范围，并不得以任何方式与他人联系。

10.     考生结束考试时，应立即举手示意考场管理员。考场管理员将前往考生就座的考试工作站并确认考试已正确结束。如考生选择报告当次考试成绩，考试成绩（不包括分析写作部分）将显示在考试机屏幕上，并且非正式成绩单将会被打印出来。

GMAT报名的注意事项：

1.         考生注册GMAT考试时，Profile中的考生姓名一项请严格按照护照上的姓名拼音填写，并请注意姓名的正确填写顺序：First Name为名，Last Name为姓。注意：中国考生没有Middle name，请勿将名字拆开填写在Middle Name栏目中。

2.         考生注册GMAT考试时，请注意出生日期的正确填写顺序为：---月--日--年。

3.         考生在填写姓名及出生日期有误时，请务必在早于考试预约时间48小时以前与GMAT考试全国呼叫中心联系，并按照要求提供相关证明以申请修改。距离考试预约时间48小时以内，相关修改将无法操作。以上两项个人信息有任何一项不符，考生都将有可能被拒考。

4.         考前请务必通读GMAT Information Bulletin for Testing in 2006（该公告可在www.mba.com上免费下载）。

其他注意事项：

1.         考生如对考试安排、考场设施、考场管理员的服务不满意，或认为自己在考试中受到不公正对待，请在考后5个工作日内以电子邮件、信函或传真等书面形式向GMAT考试全国呼叫中心投诉。

2.         GMAT中国考生的相关问题，请联系Pearson VUE中国GMAT Customer Service – 教育部考试中心全国呼叫中心。联系电话：（86）10-62798877（人工电话服务时间：北京时间周一至周五，8:30AM-5:00PM），电子邮件：gmatservice@neea.edu.cn，传真：（86）10-82520243，网址：GMAT.etest.edu.cn

GMAT作文考试新题大公开（二）

新题范文

文/江奇

版权所有，摘录和转贴请注明作者和出处。

自2006年ACT接手GMAT出题以来，一直都很低调，延续ETS出题风格，沿用原来的可用题库和出题方式，直到自己有实力去全面控制局面。2年过去了，其他部分目前毫无动静，唯独作文部分，出现了小小的尝试。2007年初ACT在北美花钱请人测试作文题目，暗下决心要啃下这块骨头，本人也参与了那次测试。之后在2007年末，ACT悄悄地在所有考生中随机加入这几道题目（以目前情况来看，100个考生中大约只有5-8个人会遇到新题）以磨练自己的评分人员和评分程序。

既然如此，GMAT作文有题库而且必须按照题库出题的思路（ETS时代任何新题都必须先公布一段时间才能真正进入考试）已经被ACT赤裸裸地打破，所以所有考生都应该对这些新题有很好的了解。

在这里，我们对其中一道令大家颇为头痛的Issue题给出一篇非常适合模仿的北美范文。

由于此题考的话题是法律，恰恰是中国同学（即使是法律系的学生）都不太能应对的抽象话题，所以在考场上颇为费力，以下给出一篇分析深刻（把事物本身和人们对事物的perception分开），思路严谨（论证有论据有解释有例外有保留），内容充实（两个主层次，之下才是论证），语言自然（善用长句和正式词汇，但稍有一点晦涩味道）的范文。

范文：

According to this statement, each person has a duty to not only obey just laws but also disobey unjust ones. In my view this statement is too extreme, in two respects. First, it wrongly categorizes any law as either just or unjust; and secondly, it recommends an ineffective and potentially harmful means of legal reform.

First, whether a law is just or unjust is rarely a straightforward issue. The fairness of any law depends on one's personal value system. This is especially true when it comes to personal freedoms. Consider, for example, the controversial issue of abortion. Individuals with particular religious beliefs tend to view laws allowing mothers an abortion choice as unjust, while individuals with other value systems might view such laws as just.

The fairness of a law also depends on one's personal interest, or stake, in the legal issue at hand. After all, in a democratic society the chief function of laws is to strike a balance among competing interests. Consider, for example, a law that regulates the toxic effluents a certain factory can emit into a nearby river. Such laws are designed chiefly to protect public health. But complying with the regulation might be costly for the company; the factory might be forced to lay off employees or shut down altogether, or increase the price of its products to compensate for the cost of compliance. At stake are the respective interests of the company's owners, employees, and customers, as well as the opposing interests of the region's residents whose health and safety are impacted. In short, the fairness of the law is subjective, depending largely on how one's personal interests are affected by it.

The second fundamental problem with the statement is that disobeying unjust laws often has the opposite affect of what was intended or hoped for. Most anyone would argue, for instance, that our federal system of income taxation is unfair in one respect or another. Yet the end result of widespread disobedience, in this case tax evasion, is to perpetuate the system. Free-riders only compel the government to maintain tax rates at high levels in order to ensure adequate revenue for the various programs in its budget.

Yet another fundamental problem with the statement is that by justifying a violation of one sort of law we find ourselves on a slippery slope toward sanctioning all types of illegal behavior, including egregious criminal conduct. Returning to the abortion example mentioned above, a person strongly opposed to the freedom-of-choice position might maintain that the illegal blocking of access to an abortion clinic amounts to justifiable disobedience. However, it is a precariously short leap from this sort of civil disobedience to physical confrontations with clinic workers, then to the infliction of property damage, then to the bombing of the clinic and potential murder.

In sum, because the inherent function of our laws is to balance competing interests, reasonable people with different priorities will always disagree about the fairness of specific laws. Accordingly, radical action such as resistance or disobedience is rarely justified merely by one's subjective viewpoint or personal interests. And in any event, disobedience is never justifiable when the legal rights or safety of innocent people are jeopardized as a result. (536 words)

GMAT作文考试新题大公开（一）

目前最完整的新题总结

文/Steven Q. Jiang

版权所有，摘录和转贴请注明作者和出处。

自2006年ACT接手GMAT出题以来，一直都很低调，延续ETS出题风格，沿用原来的可用题库和出题方式，直到自己有实力去全面控制局面。2年过去了，其他部分目前毫无动静，唯独作文部分，出现了小小的尝试。2007年初ACT在北美花钱请人测试作文题目，暗下决心要啃下这块骨头，本人也参与了那次测试。之后在2007年末，ACT悄悄地在所有考生中随机加入这几道题目（以目前情况来看，100个考生中大约只有5-8个人会遇到新题）以磨练自己的评分人员和评分程序。

既然如此，GMAT作文有题库而且必须按照题库出题的思路（ETS时代任何新题都必须先公布一段时间才能真正进入考试）已经被ACT赤裸裸地打破，所以所有考生都应该对这些新题有很好的了解。

为了帮助大家在听课之余对新题消除恐惧并有所准备，我将在这个系列中为大家准备以下三块内容：

（一）   目前最完整的新题总结

（二）   作文新题解题思路总结及复习作文部分的方法

（三）   部分新题的解题范文

以下是本人整理的两套新题：

Issue部分：

NT1. "The best teachers should expect students to challenge popular ideas rather than accept them."

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

只有那些鼓励学生挑战常规想法（而不是希望学生仅仅接受这些想法）的老师才是最好的老师。

NT2. "People have a duty to disobey laws that they consider unjust."

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

人们有义务不遵守那些他们认为不公正的法律。

Argument部分：

NT1. The following appeared in a realtor’s brochure in a large city:

“Now is the perfect time to buy a house in our city. Over the past five years, average home prices in our region have nearly doubled. But average stock prices in the national stock market have actually declined over the same period. So homeowners have seen an increase in value for their housing investment during the last five years that far exceeds what they could have made by investing in the stock market. Our city’s residents can surely achieve a similar profit over the next five years. Furthermore, if residents invest in a home, they can enjoy the use of the home while its value increases, whereas money invested in stocks would not contribute to their quality of life in the same way that owning a home would. Therefore, all the residents of our city should invest their money in a home.”

NT2. A retail grocery store has improved sales but decreased profits.  In order to improve its profits, the store has a new business plan – to lay off 10 employees without losing the store's luxury and expert services and to partner with XYZ Cafe, which has similar types of customers. （此题内容不全，为机经回忆整理而成。）

Yesterday I got an E-Mail from one of my favorite GMAT-course students in which there is a funny PowerPoint slideshow called "The Truth about Chocolate." It is so ridiculous and fallacious (but it’s really funny) that an idea suddenly occurred to me that I should use it in my GMAT/GRE writing course as an excellent example of argument task. Try to figure out how to poke holes in the author’s line of reasoning and write an outline (or an argument response if you like.)

Just have fun. Do not take this question seriously: It will never ever appear in the real test.

1、Issue考试界面：（点击下图，可以观看完整大小的截图）

2、Argument考试界面：（点击下图，可以观看完整大小的截图）

填充式耳塞，很软。先捏小，然后塞到耳朵里，会自然膨胀，从而隔绝声音。