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The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) , probably the world’s most famous entrance/admission test, has turned 60 this year. The computer adaptive test by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) assesses candidates on analytical writing, quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning and integrated reasoning skills.
The exam continues to gain popularity with Indian students and major business schools, with GMAT scores accepted for admissions at 230 programmes offered at 112 business schools in India.
GMAT is today the most widely accepted and preferred for admissions to the world’s major business schools, used by more than 6,000 management programmes in 83 countries around the world. More than nine million exams later, GMAC delivers a quarter-million GMAT exams year-round at approximately 600 test centres in 113 countries now.
The first GMAT was administered in 1954 on February 6 with 1,291 potential business students at more than 100 sites taking the test. The test was administered predominately in the US and Canada but also in Paris, London and interestingly, New Delhi.
Representatives from nine business schools, all US-based – Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern, Rutgers, Seton Hall, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University in St. Louis – had developed the admission test for the graduate study of business.
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