GMAT-It's never too early!

Hi All! I was reading WSJ this morning and the curious bug inside me urged me to look for the articles on MBA in US. All of us have heard of the phenomenon called GMAT. I read in one of the articles that there could not have been a better time than now to go for a higher education degree. I kept on reading to find that all the counsellors of the US Universities are suggesting the college grads to take the GMAT right after the degree. The chief reason for this being the fact that a high GMAT Score is one of the most important criteria for the most coveted B-Schools, and the other areas, apart from the past academic records, can be built around the achieved score.This piece of information somehow was able to clear the mist that has been shrouding all of us for so long that GMAT should preferably be written by people with a work experience of atleast a couple of years.

I wanted to share this with all my students so that if the exmas haven't been upto their expectations this year and in case they are planning to take CAT the next season, then voila here is a new opportunity for all final year students. Continuing my search for more dope on GMAT, I also chanced upon a blog which stated instances of GMAT score. It said, "A recent test-taker received a scaled score of 45 in verbal (98th percentile) and 40 in quant (66th percentile) and an overall score of 700 (93rd percentile). Notice how much closer the overall percentile is to the excellent verbal percentile. If the overall percentile were simply an average of the individual percentiles, this person would have received about 640. But because the combination of an outstanding verbal performance with a fair quant performance is so rare, the overall percentile and score will be much higher than the lower quant percentile. Another person, who scored 49 in verbal (99th percentile) and 37 in quant (56th percentile), received 710 (95th percentile), even though the quant performance here was a full 10 percentile points lower than that in the previous example. Again, an outstanding performance in verbal significantly offset a middling performance in quant.Does this work in reverse? That is, will an outstanding performance in quant so dramatically offset a middling performance in verbal? No. This combination is much more common, given the increasing number of international test-takers, who often have excellent math skills but relatively weak command of English. Even among native speakers of English, it is more common to see relatively high quant scores coupled with fair to middling verbal scores. Because these combinations are less rare, they are not rewarded as highly. For example, a test-taker recently received a 50 in quant (97th percentile) and a 37 in verbal (82nd percentile), but "only" a 670 overall (89th percentile). So the truly excellent quant performance was not enough to pull the overall score above 700.While an excellent verbal performance can indeed take up some of the slack from a weaker quant score, keep in mind that most business schools want to see strong skills in both sections. In fact, some of the top 20 schools apply the "80/80 rule", which requires that successful applicants reach at least the 80th percentile in both sections."

Interesting isn't it? So now all of you know that it's never to early to start preparing for any challenge...after all there can never be any end to question types and the early bird ALWAYS catches the worm!!! You can trust me on that!