MBA Advice Stories

In their marketing materials, GMAT prep companies love to point out that the GMAT is not an intelligence test. And while we don't want to delve too far into the politics of that assertion, we will say that everyone can -- and will -- improve his/her GMAT performance with practice.

What that means is: no one is born an excellent GMAT-taker. The test tests for arbitrary things; data sufficiency, for example, will never strictly appear in any of your B-school […]