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Management courses are the most sought after by Indians wanting to study abroad. This trend is reflected in the rising number of people taking the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) every year.
The number of students taking the GMAT exam, for instance, has more than doubled from about 7,000 in 2004 to approximately 15,000 in 2007. The number of students taking the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), though, is higher — around 24,000 applicants in 2007.
However, over a three-year period (2004-07), while the number of students appearing for the GRE increased by around 41 per cent, the number of students appearing for the GMAT exam increased by 114 per cent. Globally, about 2 lakh students took the GMAT in 2006.
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The number of GMAT takers in India is growing every year. And experts predict the number to grow at between 20 to 25% over the next three to five years. Here’s what’s attracting Indians towards this international test.
From less than six thousand in 2001, to over 16,000 last year, the number of Indians opting for GMAT, is increasing every year. Out of the two lakh people taking GMAT every year across the world, about 5% are from India. Experts say the number of GMAT takers in India is growing at 20% per annum already.
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Would-be MBA students getting ready to take the GMAT might be in for a little surprise when they show up at the testing center. In addition to all the usual security measures—including video monitoring and the computer adaptive test itself—test takers will soon be asked to submit to a new one: a biometric device that uses an infared light to capture the test-taker’s unique “palm vein pattern.”
Pearson VUE, the company that administers the GMAT for the Graduate Management Admission Council, plans to announce the new security effort tomorrow, but BusinessWeek got a sneak peak at it today.
The Fujitsu “PalmSecure” device
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It remains a great puzzle. Approximately half of medical students and more than one-third of law students are women, whereas less than 15% of MBA students are women in India. The fast change in Indian economic structure from manufacturing to service demands greater participation of women in the workforce.
There is a strong need for business schools and industry to collaborate and take proactive actions to attract more women to management careers.
According to a BusinessWeek survey, women make up only 28% of incoming MBA classes for BusinessWeeks Top 30 B-Schools in the
The CAT paper may be going the GMAT way. Sample this - from 2003 to 2006, the number of questions has fallen from 150 to 75. The GMAT paper has 78 questions.
The number of choices and the duration of the CAT examination have also changed resembling a GMAT paper. And now, the CAT test might soon become an online exam like the GMAT.
Mumbai T.I.M.E institute Director Arks Srinivas says, “The CAT paper's quantitative section used to be considered very difficult but 2004 onwards, it is becoming easier and more arithmetic driven which is what GMAT follows. And if
More mainlanders taking entrance exam
THE number of Chinese students applying for the Graduate Management Admission Test, a globally recognized business school entrance exam, has risen for the second year in a row due to lower American visa restrictions and Chinas growing demand for MBAs.
Officials with the Graduate Management Admission Council, the United States-based GMAT organizer, revealed in the city yesterday that 4,076 people took the GMAT test on the Chinese mainland from last July to this June, accounting for 2.6 percent of all examinees around the world.
The number of mainland test takers rose about 21 percent from the
Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.
The exam's publisher, the Graduate Management Admission Council, is tracking down users of Scoretop.com after winning a lawsuit to shut down the site and seize a computer hard drive containing payment information and user identifications.
Scoretop sold VIP access for $30 a month, giving users previews to current questions on the latest Graduate Management Admission Test. Some were posted by users after taking the exam.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema also ordered site operator Lei Shi
There are many management students across the country keen to join international B-schools like Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg or Stanford.
The way to get into these institutes is the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT), the computer based online test conducted by Educational Testing Service (ETS) under the aegis of global nodal body Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
To crack the GMAT, Indian students get coached at GMAT-prep institutes. MBAUniverse asked one of the leading GMAT-prep institute Jamboree about its assessments of the exam, the performance of Indian students in the exam and the kind of services it offers to students. A GMAT
PowerScore Releases the GMAT Sentence Correction Bible
The PowerScore GMAT Sentence Correction Bible is a complete how-to instruction book for the Sentence Correction section of the Graduate Management Admission Test. This book has been carefully designed to reinforce students understanding behind the Sentence Correction section of the GMAT. As a comprehensive manual, it teaches students how to solve every type of GMAT Sentence Correction problem.
The concepts and techniques discussed are drawn directly from our live PowerScore GMAT courses. In all of our preparation materials we rely on the analysis of questions released from GMAC, the producers of the GMAT. We
PowerScore Releases the GMAT Sentence Correction Bible
The Power Score GMAT Sentence Correction Bible is a complete how-to instruction book for the Sentence Correction section of the Graduate Management Admission Test. This book has been carefully designed to reinforce students understanding behind the Sentence Correction section of the GMAT. As a comprehensive manual, it teaches students how to solve every type of GMAT Sentence Correction problem.
The concepts and techniques discussed are drawn directly from our live PowerScore GMAT courses. In all of our preparation materials we rely on the analysis of questions released from GMAC, the producers of the GMAT.
Mobile GMAT Testing Center on the Natchez Campus
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has launched a pilot program whereby a GMAT bus will visit 49 cities over a seven-month period to provide mobile sites for students to take the GMAT. The GMAT bus will be on the Natchez Campus on January 13 and 17, 2007.
Interested candidates can register online at www.mba.com. Students can follow the prompts online to register by entering the zip code for either Natchez, MS, or Alcorn State, MS. They can also call to register (800-717-GMAT) if they would prefer.
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