GMAT Score – Admissions Criteria 1

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

I found this bit of GMAT trivia amusing. From GMAT Score – Admissions Criteria 1:

The math and verbal scores range from 0 to about 52. (I know that ETS claims the scale can go as high as 60, but it has never actually gone over 52).

I found this bit less amusing:

Most people don’t know that they can take the GMAT under what ETS, the test administrator, calls “non-standard accommodations.” That means you can get twice as much time as everyone else, if that’s what you need to compensate for a medical condition. ETS doesn’t promote this accommodation very aggressively, but I’ve had many of my students take the test “non-standard” and all of them who have gotten a truly significant accommodation (such as double time) have gone up at least 100 points from what they were scoring with me on practice tests given under standard conditions.

I had one student who consistently scored in the mid 500s with me. He took the test under non-standard conditions (he got double time), went up more than 100 points, and was accepted at Harvard.

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