Stacy, Please help!!!!

[wildblueyonder06]

Stacy --

I completed my high school and two years of college in Pakistan. In Pakistan, there is no concept of multiple choice questions. You are given a question and they have to write down your answer in an essay format.

I completed my B.S. in Biochemistry from Loyola and multiple choices questions where completely new to me. Therefore, my GPA suffered badly in college years here.

For example, in my Cell Biology exam--50% of questions were multiple choice and 50% were essay questions. I got 50 points on essays and only 12 on multiple choice questions.

Can you please help me in how to convey my handicap to business schools on the applications or in the interview. Since the GMAT is in the same format, I am very scared that my score will reflect my weakness.

Any pointers will help!
wildblueyonder06

[Stacy Blackman]

I believe in your essays there is an opportunity to discuss cultre shock and some of the "little things" that were new and different for you. However you do not want to dwell on these things - if you are applying to US business schools you will need to get over the culture shock quickly! You also do not want to appear to be making excuses.

[aim-wsc]

just i bit curious... i wonder how this doubt never come to my mind...
ma'am,
whats exam structure in american mba schools. i suppose they conduct exams regularly... so
they usually are objective type or descriptive type?

i m concerned with top ten us bschools.

thankyou.

[Stacy Blackman]

Test formats are all over the board: essays, multiple choice, true/false, problem solving. Even within one schools, or one class, there will be all different formats.