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GMAT is a creature of the MBA; most MBA programs, certainly the best ones, require applicants to take the GMAT. But the GMAT has taken on a life of its own, beyond its original purpose that was to measure MBA applicants’ ability to successfully navigate an MBA program.
Just to give you an example, check out a professional networking site like LinkedIn. Many, if not most, MBAs continue to post their GMAT scores, 5 years, 10 years, or longer, after they’ve earned their MBAs, even though there’s no specific indication that the GMAT correlates to business acumen or success in the long term!

This means that the absolute and functional value of GMAT – after one earns his/her MBA – has become remarkably durable!
If you want to go in depth on this topic and discover:
- what the GMAT is not!
- How test-takers should approach the GMAT
- How the GMAT can exponentially increase your chances to succeed, if you are considering to apply for a top MBA program,
- How – beyond this specific goal – the GMAT can help you to develop the ability to manage yourselves as problem solvers and decision makers under conditions of less than perfect knowledge and resources
- How the ability to acquire (or re-acquire) and maintain these skills DOES correlate to long term success in some aspects of life and business……..

DON’T MISS the seminar that will be held in Rome (via Quintino Sella 67/69 – the European School of Economics) on May 6 (7.00/10.00 pm) by prof. Robert Eller, expert GMAT prep trainer and MBA application coach.