The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) will introduce new features for the GMAT entrance exam for applicants to business school. These three new features, which will go in to effect on July 19, will help to improve the GMAT exam experience. The new features were created out of the results of GMAC surveys of GMAT exam takers’ experiences. Here’s what you can expect with the new GMAT features:
Cancelled scores will no longer be shown on any future GMAT score reports generated by GMAC. Test takers can choose to cancel their score if they don’t feel as if they have done as well as they had hoped. When scores are canceled, a “C” shows up on the reported scores when they are sent to business school admissions. The new feature will eliminate the C on the submitted scores, so that the test taker is the only one who knows that a score was cancelled.
GMAC decided to remove the cancelled score from the reports to help candidates to gain more control and confidence in their experience. According to the GMAC survey results, “more than 3,000 students, 85 percent of respondents indicated that they would like to see the “C” removed from their score reports.”
Another new feature is that test takers will now have the option to retake the test within 16 days, instead of the previously required 31 days. Test takers can take the test up to five times in a 12-month period. Giving exam takers a shorter amount of time to retake the test will help to improve the results of the retake tests. GMAC explains that the shorter time period helps to accommodate test takers schedules, study habits, help to define peak performance times and school deadlines.
The final new feature for the GMAT exam is that the authentication code to access the Official Score Report online will be replaced with the test taker’s date of birth. The birth date will help to authenticate your access to your scores. The new feature will help to make the process of checking scores and sending them to admissions offices will be more efficient.
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