{"id":12918,"date":"2012-07-11T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2012-07-11T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:32:21","slug":"should-i-take-the-gmat-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/should-i-take-the-gmat-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Take the GMAT Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/courses\/mbamission\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8164\" style=\"border: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"MBA Mission Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mbamission.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"17\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When candidates ask us whether they should take the GMAT again, our instinct is always to reply with an important question: \u201cDo you think you can do better?\u201d And if the candidate does indeed believe that he\/she can improve, the individual\u2019s next question is inevitably \u201cWhat do the business schools think of multiple scores?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, MBA programs do not frown on candidates taking the test more than once. Many candidates feel that they have to be \u201cperfect\u201d the first time and that any subsequent test they take\u2014particularly\u00a0if they receive a\u00a0lower score\u2014might be damaging. This is not the case. In fact, Dartmouth Tuck anticipates that applicants will take the test more than once, and openly states its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuck.dartmouth.edu\/admissions\/faqs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>willingness to accept and then \u201cfuse\u201d candidates\u2019 highest verbal and quantitative scores, if they occur on separate tests<\/strong><\/a>. Meanwhile, other programs have been known to call students and tell them that if they can increase their GMAT scores, they will be offered admission.<\/p>\n<p>From an admissions perspective, accepting a candidate\u2019s highest GMAT scores is in an MBA program\u2019s best interest, because doing so will in turn raise the school\u2019s GMAT average, which is then reported to rankings bodies (<em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>,\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>, etc.) and could positively influence the school\u2019s position in the rankings. So, do not be afraid to take the test two or even three times. It cannot really hurt you. It can only help you.<\/p>\n<p>For more MBA admissions advice, sign up for a free one-on-one consultation with an mbaMission consultant at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/consult.php\">www.mbamission.com\/consult.php<\/a> or register for an upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/services.php?package=bootcamp\">MBA Application Writing Boot Camp<\/a> (mention you heard about mbaMission from GMAT Club and receive $100 off!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When candidates ask us whether they should take the GMAT again, our instinct is always to reply with an important question: \u201cDo you think you can do better?\u201d And if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-mbamission","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}