GMAT Advice from BITS School of Management
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Thinking about taking the GMAT, but not sure if you should or how to proceed? Hear from Narottam Kishore, Head of Admissions and Outreach, at the prestigious Mumbai-based BITS School of Management. In this video, he summarizes why the test is valuable to MBA candidates and schools and how you can be successful at applying to BITSoM or any business school of your choice.
"At BITSoM, we aim to admit students who can thrive in our rigorous academy curriculum that allows BITSoM students to be more involved in our overall MBA program. GMAT is one of the major criteria we use to assess candidates' academic abilities. We use GMAC score to assess candidates' academic abilities in a standardized manner.
Unlike undergraduate college mark sheets, which does not provide the same level of standardizations because of large differences in college curriculum, we use GMAT score as a way to compare apples to apples when it comes to assess candidates' academic abilities. We look for evidence of candidate analytical and quantitative skills when we assess candidate's applications, and of course, work experience or undergraduate college mark sheets to give us some evidence of candidates analytical and quantitative skills, but we look hard for proof of these skills and that's where GMAT goes a long way in making a candidate's case.
GMAT helps us to evaluate candidates and analytical writing skills verbal skills and mathematical skills. It is one of the objective measures of candidates quantitative and verbal skills. GMAT also happens to be a highly accurate predictor of candidate's academic success in an MBA curriculum, and that's why we give a lot of emphasis to GMAT score in our application.
One good thing about GMAT is that it's one of the few things that can be worked on and improved upon in a short span of time. Unlike community service or undergrad college performance of the last two to three years. Another advantage with GMAT is that it is flexible when it comes to taking the test any time or any day of the year.
So, I would suggest when planning to begin your applications, maybe take six months before your MBA application to start working on GMAT preparation. Trust me, the faster you are done with it, the happier you will be. So, once you have defined or once you have finalized your strategy of taking the GMAT test, take the next step and sign up to take the test.
Most of the candidates don't end up signing up to take the test, and that's where they don't end up studying hard for the exams. So, if you want to be serious about taking the GMAT test, one thing that you can do is to identify a "D Day" and that date will serve as a motivation and give you the focus that is needed to prepare for this exam.
Despite what you might have heard, it is very much possible to improve your GMAT score if you work hard, even if you are not able to do well in a first attempt. I would encourage you to work hard, work with full dedication, and you will be able to get a good score in GMAT score. So, all the people out there who are planning to apply for GMAT or planning to apply for MBA in this next academic curriculum, I wish you all the best, work hard, and I'm sure you will be able to get a good top score and that will build your case to getting into a top-class business school in this country or elsewhere in the world."
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