CF INDIA PORTAL Survey: Prospective MBA Applicants Still Overwhelmingly Choose GMAT Over GRE.

The makers of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) have revised their test and made a strong push to market it as an admissions alternative to the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), but prospective MBA applicants still overwhelmingly opt to take the GMAT, a recent CF INDIA PORTAL survey finds.

In a survey of CF INDIA PORTAL GMAT students between November 2011 and April 2012, CF INDIA PORTAL found that only 16 percent said they considered taking the GRE instead of the GMAT. Of the 84 percent who said they never considered taking the GRE, the majority (60 percent) said the main reason was because they thought some or all of their target schools only accept the GMAT. Nineteen percent, meanwhile, said they felt applicants who submit a GMAT score have an admissions advantage over those who submit a GRE score, and 8 percent said it was because they thought they would do better on the GMAT than on the GRE.

In fact, prospective applicants who opted for the GMAT over the GRE because they thought their target schools don’t accept the latter may have been misinformed, according to CF INDIA PORTAL  “We believe that number may be inflated because of a lack of information. “Many of them would be surprised to know that most, if not all of the business schools they plan on applying to accept the GRE, in addition to the GMAT,” ..

Despite growing acceptance of the GRE as an alternative to the GMAT by top MBA programs, CF INDIA PORTAL still advises prospective applicants to choose the more traditionally accepted GMAT exam if they are applying only to business school and not to other graduate programs as well. “According to a separate Kaplan survey of business school admissions officers, applicants who submit a GMAT score have a slight admissions advantage over applicants who submit a GRE score,” Weiss said.

The makers of the GMAT aren’t sitting by idle as the GRE test makers try to gain more of the MBA market, mind you. The GMAT will feature an added Integrated Reasoning section beginning this June as part of an effort to solidify its status as the best predictor of student success in business school.

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