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Many elite schools have diversified their applicant pool by accepting the GRE as an alternative in the admissions process. Let’s take a look at some common questions SBC clients have had about choosing the GMAT or GRE for their MBA application package.  You might find your own situation mirrored in one of these examples.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Georgina Hannah | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, Prospective

In his 20 years of coaching people on the GMAT, Chris Kane has more than met Malcolm Gladwell’s popular dictum that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Having guided and coached nearly 5,000 GMAT test takers, he boasts the accumulated knowledge and experience of a seasoned doctor treating health problems.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Chris Kane, John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, Prospective

The latest revisions to the two exams that MBA and other graduate business school applicants take are yet more evidence of an ongoing arm’s race between the makers of the GMAT and the GRE. The Educational Testing Service (ETS), the administrator of the GRE exam, has wrested more and more of the business school market away from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, Prospective

U.S. News‘ recently removed GMAT and GRE scores from its online MBA ranking process. If it does so for its full-time MBA ranking it could have a big impact on the future of those exams.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, MBA Program Rankings, Prospective

Most B-schools now accept GRE test scores in lieu of the GMAT. But what exactly is a good GRE score?

Stacy Blackman, founder of Stacy Blackman Consulting, says it isn’t such a black and white answer. Rather, she says, a good GRE score will vary based on an applicant’s goals and their educational background.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Greg Yang | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, GMAT, Prospective

Testing at-home can have both its advantages and disadvantages, from cheaper testing fees to increased distractions at home. Business Insider recently spoke to testing experts and instructors on how applicants can best prepare for the online GMAT.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Greg Yang | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: GMAT, Prospective

MBA Insights offers this list of the best GMAT prep courses in the field based on feedback from users of the courses. The list is based on the quality of the course, customer satisfaction, and value, and actual test results. Below the list you will also find small overviews of each course with links to more detailed overviews and customer reviews.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: MBA Insights | Subject: GMAT

If the Guinness Book of Records tracked GMAT scores around the world, which country could lay claim to the highest average scores?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: GMAT

Business schools that now accept the GRE as an alternative to the GMAT has reached an all-time high percentage, according to Kaplan Test Prep’s 2016 business school admissions officer survey. Some 92% of the schools now accept GRE scores, a huge jump from Kaplan’s 2009 survey — the first year Kaplan asked the question — when only 24% of business schools took GRE scores. But … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Getting In, GMAT

More than one in four people who took the GMAT exam this year cancelled their scores after learning the results, preventing business schools from ever seeing the scores. That’s a massive increase in the number of test takers who pay to take the test and then immediately discard it.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: GMAT

Learn how to master the art of sentence correction.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

Making assumptions and choices is often necessary on Problem Solving questions.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

Work exclusively with the information provided in the argument or passage and don’t bring in anything additional

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

Eliminate the clutter of modifiers to simplify the sentence.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

Find it difficult to know when you can safely hit “submit?” Devise a checklist to cover the bases.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

When the statements are each clearly insufficient, ruling out A, B, and D from the start, the answer can only be C or E.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

Read slowly, connect with the sentences, and you will arrive at the “aha” moment of understanding.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

The context is meant to ensure that the critical reasoning section is not a vocabulary test. It also serves to distract test-takers.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

Sleep and exercise are the two most important things to help students lock in while taking the GMAT.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT

A guide to using correlative conjunctions, such as “either … or”

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT