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The GMAT is today used by more than 5,400 graduate management education programs at approximately 1,500 business schools worldwide. The exam, taken more than 250,000 times per year, is designed as an objective predictor of how well a student will perform academically in the first year of a graduate business education program. Through the Validity Study Service (VSS), the GMAT has been shown by researchers to be a reliable predictor of academic performance in business school, especially when used in combination with an applicant’s undergraduate grade point average. In June the GMAT Exam will include the new Integrated Reasoning section designed to measure a test taker's ability to evaluate information presented in new formats from multiple sources.
GMAC’s other products include the Graduate management Admission Search Service (GMASS), a searchable database of nearly 390,000 GMAT Exam and mba.com registrants that admissions professionals use to search for candidates. Admissions professionals can also use GMATCH, GMAC’s two-day online global recruiting event.
GMAC research includes surveys and geographic trends analysis on graduate management education worldwide. Surveys of corporate recruiters, graduate management students, and graduate management staff and alumni provide information on the job market, which regions are attracting the most students, and which programs are growing the fastest, among other areas of interest. Data from the surveys are released to the public on the organization’s Web site, gmac.com.
GMAC runs mba.com, an online portal with information about topics graduate business administration programs and the career options available to people with graduate business degrees. The website provides software to help prospective business school applicants prepare for the GMAT. It also allows people to set up an appointment to take the test at one of several hundred testing centers in nearly 100 countries.
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