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. 

60% of Admissions Officers say GMAT Integrated Reasoning Section Scores Unimportant

The majority of admissions officers from more than 200 U.S. business schools say an applicant’s score on the GMAT’s Integrated Reasoning section is not so important.

In a recent survey, Kaplan found that 60% of admissions officers said that performance on the IR section was not important.

But Kaplan reports that 50% of business schools surveyed point to a low overall GMAT score as “the biggest application killer.” 

For its 2014 survey, Kaplan polled admissions officers from 204 business schools from across the United States, including 11 of the top 30 MBA programs as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. 

The IR section is scored separately from the Qualitative, Verbal and Analytical Writing Assessment sections of the GMAT exam, which means that poor performance on this new section can’t be masked by stronger performance on the other sections. 

For more details see the 2014 Kaplan survey of admissions officers

ハーバード・ビジネス・スクール：GMAT vs GRE

Harvard Business School (HBS) accepts both the GMAT and the GRE and does not prefer one over the other. 

HBS Admissions Director Dee Leopold in her Director’s Blog has explained this issue in detail.

The vast majority of applicants opted to submit GMAT scores, the percentage of matriculating admits as compared to total applicants broken out by test were within close range.

But candidates will no longer have the option to submit both test scores. 

• HBS cares less about the overall score than the components
• HBS looks at subscores in the context of the candidate’s profile.”
• The GMAT or GRE-Q score of an engineer with top grades who has been doing highly quantitative work on the job is of less consequence that that of an English major with no quantitative coursework or professional experience. 
• The English major would be helped by a strong GMAT/GRE quant score because it would serve to show Leopold’s team that he or she will be able to handle the quant work at HBS.
• Candidates who don’t have a background that demonstrates extensive practice in reading and writing may be helped by strong verbal subscores. 

HBS does not accept LSATs, MCATs, SATs or undergraduate grades.

Unofficial scores are fine for the application, and official scores will be accepted after the deadline.

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

Record number of students take GMAT

The Graduate Management Admission Council or GMAC, owner of the GMAT exam, accepted by more than 5,400 graduate business and management programmes worldwide - has announced a total of 286,529 GMAT exams worldwide were taken.

831,337 score reports were sent to 5,281 graduate business and management programmes around the world: these are all historic highs. The 2012 GMAT exam volume was up 11 per cent from the 2011 testing year, and 8 per cent higher than the previous record of 265,613 in 2009.

The key trends reflected in the GMAC's numbers for 2012 are:

• The number of programmes receiving scores was up 7% from 2011 and 21% from 2008. 
• Roughly 560,000 GMAT score reports were sent to MBA and EMBA programs, and 240,000 scores went to other masters programmes (such as accounting, finance, and management).
• GMAT testing outside of the United States continues to grow quickly. Tests taken by non-U.S. citizens rose 19% in 2012 and represented 59% of global GMAT volume.
• Chinese test takers, the second-largest citizenship group after the U.S,. represented 20 % per cent of global testing. 
• In 2012, the number of exams taken by Chinese citizens increased 45% to 58,196 exams.
• Indian citizens, the third-largest citizenship group, took 30,213 GMAT exams, a figure that increased 19% in 2012.

The percentage of exams taken by women hit 42.9% in 2012—a record for the third straight year.

Source: GMAC http://www.mba.com/

KAPLAN: Most Top B-Schools Prefer GMAT to GRE

Kaplan reports that despite a majority of top business schools now accepting the GRE as an admissions alternative to the GMAT, just 16% of prospective business school students said they considered taking the GRE route.

Of the 84% who said they never considered taking the GRE instead of the GMAT, 60% said the primary reason was because some or all their target schools only accept the GMAT; 19% said it was because they felt applicants who submit a GMAT score have an admissions advantage over applicants who submit a GRE score; and 8% said it was because they thought they’d do better on the GMAT than on the GRE. 

Kaplan Test Prep believes an increasing number of business school will accept the GRE in the years to come, though applicants who submit a GMAT score may continue to hold an advantage, especially because the GMAT is adding an Integrated Reasoning section in June to reinforce its status as the best predictor of student success in business school.  Kaplan will continue to track this trend.

In 2011, there were a record 700,000+ administrations of the GRE worldwide.

Source: Kaplan

Goizueta to Help Applicants Prepare for GMAT

The Evening MBA admissions office at Emory’s Goizueta Business School is planning to help applicants with GMAT, a GMAT strategy course for prospective applicants who have completed portions of their application. 

The school is offering a free four-day course, designed to supplement individual GMAT study plans, will be held over two weekends, April 28th-29th and May 5th-6th. Participants will review more than 60 math concepts tested on the GMAT, learn simple tips and techniques to solve high-level GMAT problems and understand how to develop a study plan to achieve a target score.
 

Applicants to Goizueta’s evening MBA program must submit their completed application, except for GMAT scores, by April 27th. They then take part in the GMAT strategy session, take the GMAT exam and submit their score by the June 15th deadline for admission and scholarship review.

Source: Goizueta Business School