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There is more clarity about the new Integrated Reasoning (IR) section that is slated to debut in the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in its new format scheduled to launch in June 2012. Unlike the Quant and Verbal sections which are adaptive, IR will be a fixed-form test. Which means that candidates will be served […]

The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]

Graduate Management Admission Council, the owner and administrator of the GMAT exam, on Tuesday announced the launch of an India-specific version of the official GMAT website – www.mba.com/India. “The website has been designed exclusively for Indian aspirants and exhibits a detailed classification of the top business schools in India, Indian b-schools accepting GMAT scores and […]

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), used for MBA admissions by a vast majority of business schools across the world will add a new section that will test advanced reasoning skills, starting June 2012. The new section, known as ‘Integrated Reasoning’, will feature questions that will test skills of data analysis and interpretation, the ability […]

The Graduate Record Examination’s (GRE) big shot at trying to wrest the business school admissions space from the currently prevalent Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) comes in an interesting period of time, when applications to b-schools in the US and Europe are dwindling. Last month, Wharton joined Harvard, Stanford, MIT-Sloan and 250 business schools worldwide […]

The questions are provided from the coaching institute’s preparation material and are available for GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test), LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) and NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination). Users can also collect points by answering correctly and get them redeemed for the institute’s study material, said the statement. […]

“The average GMAT score for the admission offers that are going out is 731 among, the highest in the world, if not the highest. For comparison, the entering class of 2008 at Harvard had an average GMAT score of 707 and that at Wharton had an average GMAT score of 713,” said the official spokesperson. […]

What is the kind of presence of India in IMD and what kind of activity does IMD do within India? IMD is known to be one of the most global MBA programs and even though we are a class of only 90 people, each class has between 4 and 8 Indian students who tend to […]

The CAT: The surprises and its repercussions 1. The change to five optionsThe most obvious change was in the negative marking. From the usual negative of 1/3 of the marks the five options led to a negative of 1/4. This means students are penalized less for a negative answer but the chance of getting an […]

A very common flaw on the GMAT, and in life, is the confusion of absolute numbers and percentages. For example, which is larger, one-third of x or one-half of y? Without any information to compare x and y, we cannot answer this question. It is true that one-half is larger than one-third when applied to […]