Financial & Travel Musings

One of the problems these days is that getting good results in your courses isn’t always enough to get in to the college you’re aiming for.

For many years the accepted standard test that colleges applied has been the GMAT and naturally that’s resulted in there being quite an industry built around GMAT prep training. Is it worth spending your money on any of it though?

Well, up to a point, yes. It’s essential to be familiar with the overall format of the GMAT itself, how the questions are presented, and even the relatively trivial organisation of the test centres. Even a very basic preparation is sure to raise your score by a few points and you can even find some programmes guaranteeing to raise your score by 50 points or perhaps a little more.

That sounds like a useful amount to raise your score as it’s more than enough to move you up a band in the results. If you are currently sitting just a little below the score you require for your preferred college then clearly it’s going to be money well spent. Don’t expect to raise your game by 100 points or more quite so easily as there’s only so much that can be done. Remember that a large part of the GMAT score essentially equates to an IQ and you can’t do much to raise that.

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