GMAT Enhanced Score Report

The new GMAT Enhanced Score Report (ESR) provides test takers with a comprehensive set of post-exam diagnostics including rankings, response times, and a customized summary – to help evaluate strengths and weaknesses and provide additional insight into the skills tested within each GMAT section.

In addition to the usual section and total scores, test takers can discover how much time they spend on each question, compare their skill level with other test takers (from the past three years) and identify areas where they excel and where they need to improve.

Key Benefits include:

• Overall section performance ranking
• Sub-section ranking
• Time management ranking
• Percentage of questions answered correctly
• Average response time
• Ability to benchmark against other test takers from the past three years
• Customized summary report for each section that assesses strengths and weaknesses

The ESR puts test-takers in control of their future study, preparation, and test-taking strategy, while helping you to evaluate and refine your GMAT test preparation programs. 

For more information, please see the GMAC site. 

Fewer Women MBA Candidates for 2015

The Graduate Management Admission Council said Sept. 29 that the number of women applicants in 2014 fell slightly for full-time, two-year MBA programs to 37% this year vs. 39% in 2013.

Wharton reported a slight fall in the percentage of women enrolled in its full-time MBA Class of 2016 to 40%, from 42% a year ago. The school had set a record in 2011 among the world’s elite business schools for having a 44.7% female ratio. Harvard Business School maintained its 41% level of representation in its just-entered class of MBAs.

GMAC’s just published Application Trends Survey counted 106,877 applications from women, 38% of the 2014–2015 applicant pool.

Women represent 43% of all GMAT exams taken worldwide. GMAC said that women make up a majority of students in master’s programs in marketing and communications (65%), accounting (62%), and management (54%). In master’s of accounting programs, there was a year-over-year increase of three full percentage points from 59% in 2013.

GMAC said that women also represent 40% or more of the applicants in part-time lockstep MBA programs (41%), part-time self-paced MBA programs (40%), flexible MBA programs (43%), and master of finance programs (46%).

GMAC said that testing year 2013 marked the fifth year in a row that women broke the 100,000 mark in the number of GMAT exams taken.

For more information see the 2014 GMAC Application Trends Survey

MBA Applications Up for 2015: GMAC 2014 Application Trends Survey

According to the GMAC 2014 Application Trends Survey, 61% of global full-time two-year MBA programs participating in the survey reported application growth – up from 50% of programs in 2013 and only 43% in 2012. It is the first time in five years when a majority of schools reported an increase.

Here are the key points:

• 35% of the 314 responding business schools told GMAC their applications were down this past year. As recently as 2011, 67% of the surveyed schools reported declines in two-year MBA applications.
• The last time a majority of schools reported rising applications in two-year, full-time MBA programs was 2009. At that time, 64% of the respondents reported an uptick.
• 60% business schools with one-year MBA programs reported a decline in applications this past year.
• 65% of U.S. full-time two-year MBA programs report receiving more applications from foreign candidates, up from 56% in 2013, and 41% in 2012. U.S. schools report  that India and China are their largest sources of foreign students.
• The percentage of professional MBA programs (part-time, flexible, online, and executive MBA) reporting increased application volume was higher this year than in 2013, however, the majority of programs is not yet experiencing growth.
• Growth in application volume is seen among Master in Marketing and Communications, Master in Information Technology, Master in Management, and Master of Accounting programs. Master of Finance programs are experiencing declining volume for the third year in a row.

In the United States, 65 percent of full-time two-year MBA programs report receiving more applications from foreign candidates, while demand also continues to improve among domestic candidates (up for 48% of programs in 2014 compared with 22% in 2012). The following programs reported a majority of foreign candidates in their applicant pools:

1. Master of Finance (82% of applicants)
2. Master in Management (73%)
3. Master in Marketing and Communications (69%)
4. Full-time one-year MBA (56%)
5. Full-time two-year MBA (52%)
6. Citizens of countries in East and Southeast Asia and Central and South Asia make up the majority of foreign candidates applying to programs in Asia-Pacific, Canada, India, and the United States.
7. Programs located in Europe received their largest share of foreign candidates from East and Southeast Asia and from other European countries.

For more information please see GMAC 2014 Application Trends Survey

MBA 留学 ニュース: GMAT Test Takers Can Now Preview Scores Before Reporting or Canceling Them

GMAT applicants now have the ability to preview their unofficial scores before deciding whether to report or cancel them, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the exam. 

This new score reporting feature, available to all test takers, went into effect at all 600 test centers worldwide that administer the exam.

Under this new process, test takers will be able to view their unofficial scores – Integrated Reasoning, Quantitative, Verbal and Total – and then will have two minutes to decide whether to accept them. If they do not make a choice, their scores will be cancelled. 

Test takers will have 60 days to reinstate a score they cancel in the event that they decide later they want to send it, for a $100 fee. After 60 days, scores will no longer be retrievable.

Analytical Writing Assessment scores will not be available immediately and so are unaffected by the change. They will be reported on official score reports delivered within 20 days.

Test takers should note that all sittings of the test will still be reported to the schools. In other words, if you see your score, then opt to cancel, the schools will still see that you did take the test (and that you canceled the score).

For more information please see the Graduate Management Admissions Council webpage

GMAC: Two-Year MBA Candidates Decline for Second-Class Schools

The Graduate Management Admission Council says interest among GMAT test takers in applying to two-year MBA programs dropped heavily year to one of the lowest levels in many years.

 In 2013, the number of GMAT test takers who sent their score reports to two-year MBA programs dropped  29.1% to 69,465 from a peak of 97,674 in 2009. Last year’s year-over-year fall was a 21.7% drop from 88,700 in 2012.

Last year, 35,953 of the prospective students who took the GMAT exam wanted their scores sent to a two-year program, a 33.7% decline from 2009 and a 24.4% drop from the previous year.

Among 33,512 non U.S. takers represented a 20.1% decline 2009. Most of the decline occurred last year when the numbers fell 18.5% from 2012 when 41,119 students sent their scores to two-year MBA programs.

Harvard Business School saw aplications to its MBA program last year increase by 3.9% to 9,315 candidates and by 7.6% from 2008. Eight of the Top 10 schools had lower acceptance rates last year than in 2012 largely because of application increases.


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The decline is in second- and third-tier MBA programs.

Source: GMAC