Pkit wrote:
Nevertheless, I agree with WALKER, that english proficiency is very important for MBA degree. (just imagine you are an associte in IB or management consulting company and there are ridiculous ERRORS in your presentation, funny isn't it?
Without doubts, english proficiency would increase significantly, while studying/staying two years on campus in english language environment, but still the pre-MBA strong level of English is required.
Well if you ask me i dont say completely eliminate the verbal section (if so then it will be total quantative....understand their problem as well
...of natives )
any way i would say
1)Eliminate SC from verbal part and let TOEFL handle the language requirement part
You are correct when you say ,a businessman should not be pack of errors while speaking but you should not forget that even if we eliminate SC from GMAT and take toefl only, it is not easy to get good marks in TOEFL as well ,without knowing anything about english.
If we do so(eliminate SC),we wont be taking language test in the name of Aptitude test and somebody might not be considered better than others just because he knows some more idioms/meanings than the other guy.
and what is tested in SC is not language skill neither it is analytical skillIt targets at ,
if this is right then, this must be MORE right (atleast 3 out of 5 choices in most questions are valid ....may be if you ask some laywers to fight for it...infact they may be able to revert the correct answer...
)
Even you dont need lawyers,see the verbal question section of this forum and see the how many poster still not feel the correct answer they say is not 100% logical...
i wonder, i will think 'ok i need to make sentence parallel' when i talk with my clients or 'was the modifier used at correct place when i talked with those partners?' lol....
2)Change type passage of RC
I am a potential business student....give me passage about economics,management and so on....but what do i get?
passage from astronomy full of jargons....passage from biology........
More jargons and complex structure means easier for native speakers PROBLEM for non-natives...
and there lies the advantage...
I really wonder what might be the intension here.....
Sometime i feel,are you kidding?
or do you think ,it really tests skills of businessman?
Can it be made more productive...why to waste things in the name of making it difficult....
I feel CR should be there....atleast it test businessman skills and intrepretation....in sentence correction ,you read things by hard...here one uses his brain....
(In complex construction natives do have advantages here as well,but atleast they wont be able to get it correct just knowing some more words or word meaning...)
So,these are what i think.
and i know these are just talks for talk....nothing is going to change....atleast for some years