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vk_vinayak
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Hi,
I have 3 questions regarding the reporting of GMAT scores.
1. Choosing the schools:
Everybody wants to score as high as possible, but most of the students end up applying to the schools based on his/her GMAT score. GMAC takes about 20 days to report the score. Then why is the compulsion that a student needs to select the target-schools during or before the GMAT exam? Assuming GMAC takes at least couple of days to calculate IR and AWA scores, why doesn't GMAC allows a student to finalize (based on the GMAT scores) his target-schools at least 24 or 48 hours after the exam.
2. Detailed break-up of scores in unofficial score report:
If you could provide sectional (PS, DS, SC, RC, CR) break up (i.e. % of answers that he/she got wrong) in the unofficial score report that a student gets right after the exam, a student can benefit if he/she chooses to retake the exam. I know that GMAT prep does that, but it is not comparable to pressure a student deals with in the real exam.
3. Cancelling the GMAT score:
As of now, a person can cancel his/her scores before seeing the score. Why can't he/she cancel the score after seeing the score? In either case, the school will be notified that a student took the GMAT but chose not to report the scores. A person who feels that he didn't do well on the exam before seeing the score, might have actually scored well. So, I guess GMAC puts an unnecessary burden on the student to choose between reporting and cancelling his/her scores even before he could see his scores.
I have 3 questions regarding the reporting of GMAT scores.
1. Choosing the schools:
Everybody wants to score as high as possible, but most of the students end up applying to the schools based on his/her GMAT score. GMAC takes about 20 days to report the score. Then why is the compulsion that a student needs to select the target-schools during or before the GMAT exam? Assuming GMAC takes at least couple of days to calculate IR and AWA scores, why doesn't GMAC allows a student to finalize (based on the GMAT scores) his target-schools at least 24 or 48 hours after the exam.
2. Detailed break-up of scores in unofficial score report:
If you could provide sectional (PS, DS, SC, RC, CR) break up (i.e. % of answers that he/she got wrong) in the unofficial score report that a student gets right after the exam, a student can benefit if he/she chooses to retake the exam. I know that GMAT prep does that, but it is not comparable to pressure a student deals with in the real exam.
3. Cancelling the GMAT score:
As of now, a person can cancel his/her scores before seeing the score. Why can't he/she cancel the score after seeing the score? In either case, the school will be notified that a student took the GMAT but chose not to report the scores. A person who feels that he didn't do well on the exam before seeing the score, might have actually scored well. So, I guess GMAC puts an unnecessary burden on the student to choose between reporting and cancelling his/her scores even before he could see his scores.
- VK
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