{"id":26418,"date":"2014-11-20T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=26418"},"modified":"2014-11-20T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:20:22","slug":"international-gmat-test-takers-score-higher-than-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/international-gmat-test-takers-score-higher-than-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"International GMAT Test Takers Score Higher than Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"american-flag-e1416171757709\"<\/a>U.S. GMAT test-takers<\/a> are performing poorly compared to test-takers from Asia-Pacific reports a recent Wall Street Journal article. In response to this growing performance gap, adcom at U.S. schools are seeking to implement new evaluation metrics to make domestic students appear better.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example of how things have changed: For the quant section, in 2004, a raw score of 48 would put the student in the 86th percentile; today, that same score would yield a ranking in the 74th percentile. More students (outside the U.S.) are scoring higher \u2013 especially in the quant section \u2013 making it a lot harder for U.S. test takers (whose raw scores have remained relatively flat) to hit those higher percentages. That is, their test scores haven\u2019t changed, but their percentile rankings are falling.<\/p>\n

Here are some additional stats from the WSJ article:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Currently, Asia-Pacific citizens make up 44% of GMAT test- takers, compared to 22% a decade ago. U.S. students comprise only 36% of all test-takers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Asians averaged a mean raw score of 45 on the quant section, compared to a raw mean for U.S. students of 33. The global mean was 38.<\/p>\n

\u2022 10 years ago, the Asian students\u2019 raw score was at 42; for U.S. students it was still 33.<\/p>\n

To address concerns about the shifting global rankings of the test, this past September GMAC introduced a bench-marking tool that \u201callows admissions officers to compare applicants against their own cohort, filtering scores and percentile rankings by world region, country, gender and college grade-point average.\u201d Adcom explain that they need a way to measure applicants against other test takers in an applicant\u2019s region. They explain that they don\u2019t just want to \u201cbecome factories for high-scoring test-takers from abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others respond by suggesting that American students need to receive a more intense math education, similar to the emphasis put on mathematics in Asia. But is lack of math education the problem or is it the amount of time Americans invest in test prep? GMAC reports that U.S. students only spend an average 64 hours prepping for the GMAT, compared to the 151 hours put in by Asian students.<\/p>\n

Students concerned about their GMAT percentile may want to consider taking the GRE<\/a> which is now accepted at 85% of b-schools.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on the Accepted Admissions Consulting Blog<\/a>, the official blog of Accepted.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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