As I sit here observing my exam scripts from school and college, I repent over my deteriorating mathematics skills. In senior high school, I was a perfect 100 scorer and my PSAT scores in math were 700+. I performed handsomely on SAT and in the other competitive exams taken over the years in college. Nevertheless, the declining trend in the mathematics and even verbal scores is very much visible and this has forced me to think, would it have been better if I had taken the GMAT right after my college, when I still remembered a lot of mathematics from my school and college? Read more…
A lot of people have been asking this question lately, that is when is the right time to take the GMAT and hence begin the preparation, if they want to begin their course in Fall 2012. Well, taking in view all the parts of the admission procedure, it is suggested that you take your GMAT latest by October 2011!
There are many reasons behind this, the major one being that you need to apply in all the three rounds, focusing on some specific colleges in each round. The first round for most of the business schools begins in November and the third round application deadlines get over by the end of March. GMAT exams and GMAT scores are only one of the various parts of the entire admission process. There are many other things to take care of too: choosing the right colleges, sending the applications, writing the application essays, appearing for interviews, losing sleep due to admission anxiety, braving the tension due to pending acceptance, applying for financial aid, arranging for sources of tuition fee and many other things. Read more…
This is surely not a million dollar question, not anymore. It used to be once upon a time, specifically two to three years back when the ETS (the committee that conducts GRE test) started pitching the test as one of the best determinants of a student’s eligibility to get admission in the best Business schools in the country.
Since the year 1955, GMAT is the preferred choice of Business schools in the country for determining the competency of students applying for various Business management programs. Every year, almost a million students from all over the world send in applications and take the Graduate Management Entrance Test, the scores of which will determine their fate.
The Graduate Record Exam or the GRE was basically meant for several Read more…
As I sit here observing my exam scripts from school and college, I repent over my deteriorating mathematics skills. In senior high school, I was a perfect 100 scorer and my PSAT scores in math were 700+. I performed handsomely on SAT and in the other competitive exams taken over the years in college. Nevertheless, the declining trend in the mathematics and even verbal scores is very much visible and this has forced me to think, would it have been better if I had taken the GMAT right after my college, when I still remembered a lot of mathematics from my school and college? Read more…
