Graduate Management News

A: Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern, Rutgers, Seton Hall, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University in St. Louis. 

A: The Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business. It was changed to the Graduate Management Admission Test the same year the Graduate Business Admissions Council became the Graduate Management Admission Council. 

A: Problem Solving. 

A: Verbal Omnibus (Analogies, Antonyms, Sentence Completion), Quantitative Reasoning (Data Interpretation, Problem Solving), Best Arguments, and Quantitative Reading. Today’s question types are Quantitative (Data Sufficiency and Problem Solving), Verbal (Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension), and Integrated Reasoning (Table Analysis, Multi-Source Reasoning, Graphics Interpretation, Two-Part Analysis). 

A: 1961.

A: Although Analogy and Antonym questions require verbal reasoning skills, they also depend heavily on English-language vocabulary skills and can be too “coachable” and idiomatic for a test as global as the GMAT exam. 

A: AWA essays provide admissions professionals a proctored, first-draft example of an applicant’s writing skills. 

A: 1997. The GMAT exam was the first to move away from paper and pencil to the computer adaptive format. The move improved test security, allowed GMAC to offer the test year-round and more efficiently assess a test taker’s abilities.

A: The palm vein reader compares the unique palm vein patterns of all test-takers. This helps catch proxy test takers (people who try and take the exam for someone else) and ensure the test – and by extension the admissions process -- is fair to everyone. 

A: Four: Multi-Source Reasoning, Graphics Interpretation, Two-Part Analysis, and Table Analysis. 

A: The US, Canada, England (London), France (Paris), and India (New Delhi). It was also offered in Honolulu five years before Hawaii became a US state.