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($) Canceling your GMAT score is a bad idea (plus, how many schools should you apply to?)

April 18, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Are you (re)taking the GMAT? What’s your score cancel strategy? A key driver of GMAT score inflation among MBA applicants is the relatively new development that allows you to cancel your test score. Years ago, you took the GMAT and that was that. Bad score? Oh well, tough luck, it’s part of your permanent record. […]

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Positive changes to GMAT score cancellation policies

April 11, 2016 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

The GMAT just gets friendlier and friendlier. At least, the GMAC’s policies do. (The test itself? Not a big source of warm-fuzzies for most people.) About two years ago, the GMAC implemented a new score preview feature at the end of your GMAT test, where you get to decide whether or not to keep or […]

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Now there’s no risk to taking the GMAT lots of times. (Or is there?)

September 30, 2015 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

It certainly seemed like an applicant-friendly move when the GMAC announced that they would allow for canceled scores to be expunged from your GMAT score report completely. What’s not to like about THAT? Now there’s no risk! You can take the test as many times as you want! Well, within their one-year limit at least. […]

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($) “Beware of GMAT Score Cancellations” and the optional essay

September 24, 2014 by EssaySnark

When the GMAC changed their GMAT testing procedure in June 2014 to allow test-takers to cancel the score at the end, after previewing it, we laid out our opinion that nobody should ever cancel their score. What if you have canceled a score? What should you do about it? Is it something you need to...


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($) If you cancel your GMAT score, should you reinstate it?

July 3, 2014 by EssaySnark

One small change on the GMAT and it generates a whole week’s worth of discussion! Because this strategy is important. Our bottom-line assessment is that for most people, it would not be a good idea to exercise the new “cancel” option on the GMAT test. However, there’s a glimmer of hope with the “cancel-then-reinstate” feature....


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($) GMAT test strategies: Should you cancel your score? (Part 3)

July 2, 2014 by EssaySnark

To continue our posts on the strategies of whether you should cancel your GMAT score when you receive the preview (first post explaining the change is here, then part 1, on basic strategies and implications, is here, and part 2, on how is a canceled test perceived by the adcoms and implications of multiple tests,...


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($) Canceling a GMAT score: Impact and how the schools will perceive it (Part 2)

July 1, 2014 by EssaySnark

Continuing our discussion of the change to the GMAT where you can cancel your score at the end of the test: We already told you in that prior post that you need to go into it with a strategy on what level you would want to cancel at – though this is arbitrary, and likely...


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GMAT strategies: Should you cancel your score?

June 30, 2014 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We’re digging further into the details of how this new GMAT score preview-and-cancel option plays out for people taking the test. As we said last week: You must have a strategy going in. And you must be able to maintain your wits about you to execute that strategy at the end. For the first part, […]

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GMAT score preview and canceling your scores

June 27, 2014 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

As we mentioned on the blahg yesterday, the GMAT is changing today. As of Friday, June 27th, all test takers will have a new, previously-unheard-of opportunity to take action in real time upon conclusion of their tests. The GMAC is giving you Brave Supplicants control. Specifically: The GMAT now will give you a score preview […]

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