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18 Apr 2014, 02:42
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I am in India working as a teacher for management. I want to do my doctoral. Is it a good option to try for GMAT. My obstacle is i had been only a average student with a few good published work. Will i get admitted to a good management school abroad with scholarship? what will be the criterias for it.?
18 Apr 2014, 11:38
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Dear mgeo,
I'm happy to respond.
First of all, I am a little confused about your goals. You say you want to do your "doctoral." Are you saying that you want to get PhD in an academic field? Or are you saying that you want to go to business school and get an MBA? Those are two extremely different paths.
Since you say you want to to a "good management school", I will assume that what you want is not your doctoral, not your PhD, but rather an MBA. What you would like to achieve, admission abroad with a scholarship, is difficult. If you achieve an elite GMAT score, that will certainly open doors. If you make a compelling and unique personal statement about what you want to achieve in your career, that will also make you stand out. Keep in mind: there are millions of people in India who want to get a scholarship to an American business school. If you are at all generic, you will tossed in a giant rejection pile with everyone else. Every single part of your application has to be a powerful statement about why you and your talents/experiences and your aspirations are unique, passionate, and deeply significant. If in anyway you look like so many other candidate, you will have no chance of success.
For crafting your whole application, you probably should think about working with an admission consultant. I have made a few recommendations, but the details of that is outside of my expertise. I'm a GMAT expert, so I can tell you a lot about the GMAT.
First of all, you need to start reading. Read for an hour a day, every day. Read hard, challenging material in English. Read the Wall Street Journal every day, and the Economist magazine every week. You need to be highly informed about every aspect of the modern global business world: that's one thing that can make you stand out. Reading will also improve your vocabulary and bolster your GMAT Verbal score. Also, study the websites of all the good business schools in America and Europe. Learn about the individual faculty members and their fields of expertise. Find out whether some of these faculty members have published books, and read those books. That would really make you stand out, if you can apply to school and say that you have read three different books by three different faculty members who teach there. Decide the area of industry in which you would like to work, and read everything about it, so you can discuss it as an expert. You have to do everything in your power to make yourself stand out far above the large number of applicants in a similar position.
Here's free GMAT idiom ebook:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-idiom-ebook/
Here's a six-month GMAT study plan:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/6-month-gm ... -schedule/
Reading is one of the best things you can do for the Verbal side of the GMAT. On the Math side, don't allow yourself to touch a calculator at all. Do all math in your head, and practice mental math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) every day. Learn well from your mistakes, so that you never make the same mistake twice.
Those are my suggestions. Best of luck to you.
Mike
