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The Graduate Management Admission Test, which is also known as the GMAT, is required by many of the top business schools. Many people put off taking this test until the last moment. There are many reasons why you should start taking it now or at least take its practice tests. The particular test is a big step for a lot of people, and it may be a requirement for you to get into a graduate program. Reasons Why You Should Start Taking the Test The graduate program that you want to attend may require you to take the test before you can begin working on your certified MBA. It is a good idea to get this out of the way as soon as possible so you know for certain come enrollment time that you are a candidate for the graduate program. It takes a lot of people awhile to actually pass this particular test so you should be sure that you can pass it before it is time to begin your MBA course of choice. There are many different sections of the GMAT and you need to make sure that you are going to pa...

What is the GMAT Exam? The GMAT exam is the Graduate Management Admission Test. The test is a standardized test that helps business schools assess your skills. The test measures your basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills. These are skills that you have developed throughout your education. The test is composed of three sections. These sections include analytical writing assessment, the quantitative section and the verbal section. The analytical writing assessment includes two separate writing tests over analysis of issue and analysis of argument. You are allowed thirty minutes to complete each section. The quantitative section contains thirty-seven multiple-choice questions. These questions are divided into two section as well including data sufficiency and problem solving. You are allowed seventy-five minutes for this section of the test. The verbal section contains forty-one multiple-choice questions over three sections. These sections include reading comp...

At one point in time, the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) was the de facto exam that students took to get into business school. But in 2006, the creators of the GMAT, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), decided to sever ties with the Educational Testing Service (ETS), who up until that point had administered the exam. This move, which ended the non-compete clause that the GMAC held over the ETS, allowed the ETS to challenge the stranglehold that the GMAC had on business school testing. Since 2006, the ETS has been campaigning schools to accept the GRE as an alternative to the GMAT. According to a press release by the ETS, “About 450 MBA programs worldwide now accept the GRE test, including 45 percent of the U.S. News & World Report’s top 100 U.S. programs and seven of the top 10 global MBA programs according to The Financial Times.” These schools include some of the top-ranked business schools in the world, such as Harvard, Stanford, Whar...

INTRODUCTION What is a standardized test? Standardized tests (e.g., SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT etc.) are aptitude tests to assess the proficiency of students for a given course of study. The scores obtained in standardized tests are supposed to predict individual success in job or profession after completing the course. For example, research shows that the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a valid predictor of students’ performance in the MBA program. Studies also support the proposition of post-MBA career successes with GMAT test scores. Most standardized tests consist of some form of evaluation for two subjects: English and Math. The first part of English, often called verbal ability test, assesses test-takers ability to read and write grammatically correct English. Several years of reading text-books, writing papers, speaking in front of the class at elementary and high schools allows standardized test takers to score well without much effort. Math in Standardized Tests The...