Global Business School Exam to Introduce Innovative New Questions in June 2012.

Surveys of business school faculties conducted during the past four years by GMAC have resulted in the decision to add an innovative new section to the GMAT designed to measure the test-taker’s ability to evaluate information from multiple sources. Called the „Integrated Reasoning Section“, it will indicate to business schools how well candidates can cope with complex situations common to the modern information-rich business environment.

What one idea would improve graduate management education? This is the question posed by GMAC in its global competition, which begins July 21, 2010, and which is open to all!

The closing date is October 8, 2010, and all entries should be one idea, explained in three paragraphs. The 15 winners will be announced in time for Christmas. You should send your ideas to GMAC via the MET (Management Education for Tomorrow) Fund’s Ideas to Innovation (I2I) Challenge at gmacmetfund.org ».

Which will increase MBA applicants chances of getting into a top business school? Some schools that have agreed to accept both exams, saying either score should be fine. "Good people always manage to shine whether they take the GMAT or GRE," says Rod Garcia, director of MBA admissions at the Sloan School of Management (MIT), one of the first schools to accept both tests. "It's the wonderful, natural competition of two companies trying to get greater shares of the test market," says Rosemaria Martinelli, associate dean of student recruitment and admissions at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. However, many admissions consultants are not so sure that this is true.

Over the past 5 years there has been a 75% increase in the number of Asian citizens taking the GMAT, more than twice the global increase. Even more impressive is the tripling in the number of global GMAT takers who have sent their scores to MBA schools in Asia, indicating a growing interest in attending Asian business schools.

Answer: They all have institutions which have just been added by GMAC to their “Global Business School Group” that administers the GMAT. Europe keeps growing! In fact, this is the first time a member has been accepted from either S.Korea or Belgium, making a total of 183 schools from 22 countries. On the topic of statistics: the GMAT is now used as part of the admissions process in over 1,900 business schools…can you afford not to have it on your CV? That’s over 4,750 different programs! For Singapore, this is their third member school, which increases its reputation as the New York of Asia.

For all visitors who are interested in taking the SAT (Standard Admissions Test), we are pleased to announce that we are in the process of designing a course for you. Thanks to recent additions to our team, we are very pleased to be able to offer an extremely effective and practical course, the contents of which will combine all aspects of knowledge required to score highly in the SAT, as well as essential tips and advice obtained from years of successfully preparing students in the USA.

We are pleased to announce that as of May we are offering a complete series of legal English courses, the most prestigious of which is the ILEC (International Legal English Certificate) from Cambridge.

The ILEC is an extremely intensive, vocabulary orientated test designed by Cambridge University, and was designed to meet the needs of the modern legal world. Whether you are an employer who must be certain that your legal team has an adequate level of English to confidently represent you, or whether you are a lawyer who is determined to make your CV as strong as possible, this certificate was designed specifically for you.

European Business Schools Command Growing Share of Global Market for Students.

According to recent data from GMAC, an ever increasing number of Europeans are taking the GMAT and subsequently applying to management programs within Europe itself. This rise reflects the growth in MBA studies globally in recent years, despite the financial crisis. Statistically speaking, in the period between 2005-9, there was a 30% rise in GMAT candidates in Europe, reaching 23,224. Interestingly, for the first time since the creation of the GMAT more than 50 years ago, the proportion of non-Americans taking the exam exceeded 50% in 2009.

ILEC (International Legal English Certificate) is the first internationally recognized exam of legal English developed by the Cambridge University. This exam helps employers to assess their legal staff's skills for using legal English in the workplace. It is also suitable for law students and as well as practicing lawyers to show the level of their legal English skills. We expect to have this prep course in our portfolio in May 2010. Read more about the ILEC test.

GMAC's right to protect it's GMAT exam from copyright infringement has been upheld by the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court.

The case arose as GMAC seeks to stop Beijing Passion Consultancy Ltd. (BPC) from using copyrighted GMAT material on its website, as well as charging a fee for it as part of its teaching course, among other
infringements.

At 301 800, it was higher than any year since the creation of the exam in 1954. The previous high, in 2008, was 298,734 with the 2007 figure being 270,724 registrations.

Based on a press release by the The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC). Read more at gmac.mediaroom.com.

If you are interested in the latest criteria from GMAC (The Graduate Management Admission Council), why not download their latest GMAT Information Bulletin (PDF).

New textbook for GMAT

This year we will be offering a choice of two different GMAT Preparation Coursebooks to follow during the course. Textbooks are included in our complete course package. In addition to the Princeton Review’s “Cracking The GMAT”, which has served us well in the past, we will put forward the Kaplan “GMAT Premier Program” as a new textbook. Both of these coursebooks cover the comprehensive knowledge and practice required to score highly, but they have a slightly different methodology, which offers the student a welcome choice. Upon meeting with us for a consultation, we will explain the differences to help you decide which you are more comfortable with. It goes without saying that these two options both keep 100% up-to-date with changes made to the exam by GMAC.

New textbooks for FCE and CAE

We have decided to follow the GOLD textbooks published by Longman in our FCE and CAE prep courses. We found that these textbooks are one of the best on the market.

Read more about our preparation courses.

We have recently added new courses to our portfolio. We now also offer KET and PET prep courses, so that we can have a more comprehensive range of Cambridge Certificate courses.

There are more and more students deciding to follow all the Cambridge Exams level steps - KET, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE. If you are a beginner, we recommend to do it this way too.

Read more about our Cambridge Certificate prep courses.

In a press release by The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), it is stated that a consortium of Europe's most prestigious business school deans have declared the GMAT as the best tool to improve the admissions process to European MBA schools. An independently conducted GMAT Validation Study conducted in Europe has shown the GMAT to be suitable for Europe, despite it being an American exam.