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20 Jan 2007, 14:23
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Although I'm pretty sure officialy it isn't allowed by GMAC, I think i remember reading somewhere that some of the prep companies make their tutors retake the exam to keep up to date with it. As I have no ideas of the figures please forgive me as i do a bit of guesstimation 
, but if we assumed there are say 2000 professional GMAT tutors worldwide and a quarter of these take the test every year and score 99th percentile, that could account for almost 25% of the people achieving 99th per year. It would also have the effect of pushing the percentiles down, such as the recent movement of 750 from 99th to 98th. I'm sure the majority of the shift is down to people being better prepared, but i think this may be having an effect too.
What are your opinions on this?
, but if we assumed there are say 2000 professional GMAT tutors worldwide and a quarter of these take the test every year and score 99th percentile, that could account for almost 25% of the people achieving 99th per year. It would also have the effect of pushing the percentiles down, such as the recent movement of 750 from 99th to 98th. I'm sure the majority of the shift is down to people being better prepared, but i think this may be having an effect too.
What are your opinions on this?
20 Jan 2007, 15:29
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I've thought about this as well. There are some additional points to consider. GMAC counts number of tests taken, and not number of test-takers; so an individual could conceivably take the exam 12 times a year and get 99th percentile each time and single-handedly skew the results.
I don't, however, believe that if there are 2000 GMAT tutors worldwide, that they consistently score in the 99th percentile. There's a reason why MGAT & Veritas pay $100 an hour to their GMAT instructors, who must score in the 99th percentile. Kaplan and PR instructors must score in the 90th percentile, I believe, which is 10x more common.
I wouldn't be surprised of a few hundred scores a year, maybe 10-15% are taken by professional instructors and test-takers. You can probably throw in people that take the exam but do not apply to business schools, such as those going for PhD & MFE degrees. And then there are a limited number of people that score over the 95th percentile, but then re-take the test. Since scores are only used once per person, any additional scores factor into the testing numbers but not the application pool.
I don't, however, believe that if there are 2000 GMAT tutors worldwide, that they consistently score in the 99th percentile. There's a reason why MGAT & Veritas pay $100 an hour to their GMAT instructors, who must score in the 99th percentile. Kaplan and PR instructors must score in the 90th percentile, I believe, which is 10x more common.
I wouldn't be surprised of a few hundred scores a year, maybe 10-15% are taken by professional instructors and test-takers. You can probably throw in people that take the exam but do not apply to business schools, such as those going for PhD & MFE degrees. And then there are a limited number of people that score over the 95th percentile, but then re-take the test. Since scores are only used once per person, any additional scores factor into the testing numbers but not the application pool.
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I think the impact is minimal, even negligible. For one thing, if someone is a tutor at Veritas, Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc., they may have one or two company representatives taking the test a year, maybe a bit more often, but the individual tutors certainly aren't each taking the test once a month. That's just silly.
The percentage of GMAT-takers prepping with a tutor are very small as well, because the cost is so high.
So don't worry about what anyone else is doing. Worry about your own score.
The percentage of GMAT-takers prepping with a tutor are very small as well, because the cost is so high.
So don't worry about what anyone else is doing. Worry about your own score.
