</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The five less questions on verbal, that's nice... </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I thought that would be an improvement too (same time, less questions), but apparently, it's not that nice because, according to TPR , they are also going to make the questions more difficult. I find this pretty easy to believe; I mean, why would they try to make things easier for anyone as the applicant pool becomes increasingly competitive?