MLIC GMAT GRE HALL OF FAME, GMAT GRE HIGH ACHIEVERS - GMAT GRE TURBOPREP™ COURSES IN NEW YORK cITY (NYC), LONDON, FRANKFURT, MUNICH, CHICAGO, MUMBAI, CHENNAI, DELHI, SINGAPORE, SYDNEY, ATLANTA, DALLAS

For starters, we 'coach and train' you in the GMAT assessment areas, using the latest GMAT problems. Our goal-driven GMAT preparation courses will teach you relevant concepts and procedures required to shoot for and achieve a GMAT score of better than 700. Unlike the tutorial sessions run by Kaplan GMAT, Veritas Elite Prep , Princeton Review, Manhattan GMAT, and Manhattan Review, the MLICETS GMAT coaching courses will show you what it takes to achieve a GMAT score of better than 700 and make you demonstrate to your instructor that you have acquired and honed the skills in all Score-critical concept and procedural areas of GMAT, and provide customized help in your areas of weakness. We at MLIC do not leave it up to you to learn on your own as Kaplan GMAT, Princeton Review, Manhattan GMAT, and other me-too courses do. We compel you to show us that you have learned and honed the GMAT-critical procedural and conceptual skills required to get a GMAT score in the 90th percentile or better. We at MLIC are so confident that our coaching methodology is effective that we are willing to back up our training with the industry-leading GMAT Score Guarantee.

If you are not convinced that MLICETS is the best GMAT preparation option that is available to you consider this: we offer the most GMAT training course hours of any GMAT or GRE prep course out there: The MLICETS Turbo-Prep GMAT course features 40 hours of pre-GMAT-course work in the GMAT assessment areas, 42 hours of in-classGMAT-coaching support, and at least 40 hours of post-GMAT-course training involving additional practice tests, and customzied exercises - For a whopping 120 hours of serious, no-nonsense GMAT training. Compare this to the pitiful 18 to 27 hours of useless Q&A sessions offered by Kaplan Prep (KAPTEST), Princeton Review, Manhattan GMAT, Manhattan Review, and other me-too GMAT prep programs. Veritas Elite GMAT prep company claims to offer between 36 and 42 hours of in-class training but have been known to scale back the number of in-class hours, as it did recently in Cincinnati, OH because its part-time instructor could not show up on Day 1. Do not be stood up; be wise and be trained -- choose MLIC.

All the other GMAT prep courses, such as the GMAT prep classes offered by Kaplan GMAT (KapTest), Princeton Review, Manhattan Review, Manhattan GMAT, Powerscore, Testmasters, and others, are essentially Self-study GMAT courses: They throw a bunch of less-than-half-decent GMAT-like books at you, show you some strategies and tricks during their in-class sessions, and ask you to work on your own for the most part. Veritas Prep, even though it claims to offer 42 hours of in-class sessions including about 3.5 hours of break during the sessions, does not require you to attend all its sessions and is, in essence, a program that relies on you to work through its prep materials on your own.

KAPLAN GMAT TEST PREP courses for the GMAT run typically 18 to 24 hours and use part-time student instructors some of whom may not have taken the actual GMAT. Kaplan Prep does not use real GMAT questions but instead uses its own 'made up' questions that rely excessively on cheap tricks that do not work most of the time, if at all. Kaplan instructors have been known to give the stock reply that 'Kaplan policy does not allow to teach you those problems or answer those questions.' The adaptive format the GMAT is not conducive to use of test-taking skills that rely on 'back-solving' and on 'tricks'. If you take away the 6 hours spent on 'practice tests' at the beginning and at the end of the 'course', the actual time spent in in-class sessions with Kaplan may not be more than 12 to 18 hours. Kaplan's "computer lab' is a joke. Rather than give you the CD containing the tests and having you take them at your home or office, Kaplan creates the illusion that it is actually providing value for your prep dollars by having you show up at its 'computer lab' to play with some useless tests. No one gets better by taking useless tests. MLIC actually trains you in GMAT assessment areas using questions appearing at high difficulty levels so that you can shoot for and reach a score of better than 700

PRINCETON REVIEW GMAT GMAT courses typically run for 24 hours, and uses franchised outlets over which it may not have any direct control. Princeton Review also relies on part-time instructors, most of whom are students who may not have taken the actual GMAT, and excessively relies on tricks to 'crack the GMAT'. Its training courses are meant to teach you at the level of 'Joe Blogg' and not at a level that is required to reach a score of better than 700. Princeton Review, like Kaplan Test prep, does not use the actual GMAT questions and trains you using some phony, made-up problems that are not representative of real GMaT questions. In short, Princeton Review GMAT course can actually do you more harm than good by letting you work on questions and passages that are not close to the real GMAT. Any company that charges you an arm and leg for 24 hours of useless tutorials such as the ones offered by PR must be doing itself a favor, not you a favor. Be wise. Choose MLIC GMAT prep.

MANHATTAN GMAT prep course appears to be the biggest "all-lime-and-salt-no-tequila' outfit out there, offering paltry 24 hours of tricks based tutoring for U$1,440 (after adjusting for the 3 hours of break during the 9-sessions) and relying on part-time instructors most of whom are non-MBA's (the instructor who teaches Manhattan GMAT course in New York City majored in linguistics and is an aspiring Hollywood screen-play writer; another instructor runs a puppy-mill from his bathroom). MGMAT has been known to switch your in-class registration to its pricey and useless virtual class if it cannot get sufficient number of people to enroll in its courses. Manhattan GMAT in-class sessions also appear to be disorganized; the instructor hops from Data Sufficiency to Critical Reasoning to Sentence Correction, all in the same session. Manhattan GMAT appears to rely on same training methodology as Kaplan and Princeton Review do, and merely teaches you some tricks, shows you you some 'key' problems to explain its tricks, and then lets you go to work on your own in clueless serendipity. When you show up for the next session, your homework tasks may not be reviewed, no question and answer session held, and the likely non-MBA instructor will move on to another round of amuse-bouche - moving from Reading Comprehension tricks to Problem solving to whatever the heck the instructor feels like. This methodology is not conducive to helping you develop a solid grip on the GMAT assessment areas, and cannot be effective. Manhattan GMAT is the only company on the block that does NOT believe that its training methodology works so much so that it does NOT offer any sort of guarantee to back up its training. In fact, Manhattan GMAT has the philosophy that if you did not do well on the test, then you are to blame for not controlling your nerves or for not applying its tricks. As Tate Shafer, one of the non-MBA instructors for MGMAT put it, if you did not do well after Manhattan GMAT training with its tricks, then you alone are to blame for the debacle. Manhattan GMAT appears to be a hyped up 'take the money and run' operation out there in the marketplace, blaming the 'victim'. Its potential instructors are 'trained' by 'sitting in on' the courses 'taught' by other instructors for the most part. Then they are required to do an audition to show that they can rattle out the talking points to be anointed 'instructors for MGMAT'. MGMAT also requires that its trainee instructors GUEST-TEACH a class, using YOU as the guinea-pig for the training of someone who may not even be hired. Do you want to be used as guinea-pig by a company that does not back up its GMAT training with any sort of post-course guarantees? MGMAT's claim that it hires only those who have scored in the 99th percentile on a GMAT test after rejecting 4 out of 5 aspirants sounds fraudulent. Firstly, 99th percentile scorers wanting to teach for MGMAT is not unlimited, and it does not have the luxury of rejecting 4 out of 5 aspiring teachers. Secondly, why are MGMAT's '99th percentile instructors' waiting for their gigs in Broadway or in Hollywood instead of pursuing MBA education at top-5 schools that will surely put them on the path to over $200,000 annual compensation? Let us do the math: MGMAT pays them, if they are 'hired', $2,700 over a 9 week period, an average of $1,200 a month, which is not enough to pay the rent and buy Starbucks Coffee at the same time in Manhattan. Do you want to be taught by untrained, ill-qualified, and possibly some-months-behind-in-rent MGMAT instructors, when you shell out $1450 for its 24-hour long dog-and-pony show that passes for GMAT preparation? GMAT tests critical reasoning - Think critically and do not be suckered into buyng the phony claims by MGMAT. In sum, Manhattan GMAT offers you 24 hours of 'tricks' sessions, does not believe in its training methodology to offer you a guarantee of any kind, offers no training in pacing critical to doing well in a time-critical GMAT environment, and features sloppy in-class training schedule that jerks you around from one GMAT section to another. In Contrast, MLIC offers you 120-hours of goal-driven and skill-enhancing GMAT prep courses that are backed by the industry-leading GMAT Score Guarantee™. Be informed. Be smart. Choose MLIC for serious, no-nonsense, kick-ass coaching in GMAT assessment areas.

VERITAS ELITE GMAT PREP appears to be the state of the art in ultimate deception. Its GMAT course materials are recycled retired GMAT questions, and its practice tests are the same ones you can buy from 800Score.com and Arco. Veritas Prep makes blatantly fraudulent claims on its website as explained below, and you should think twice before enrolling in its hyped up but useless GMAT courses. Veritas is also the only GMAT prep company that hires its 'instructors' mostly on the basis of resumes and phone interviews, and sends them out to teach with no formal training. Veritas recruits its part-time, hourly-rates-paid instructors by running ads in forums such as Craig's list with the nonchalance of people who post ads for 'casual encounters' and in Vault job boards, and does not require that its instructors have 'teaching experience' (although it simply 'prefers it'). Veritas' training involves having its potential instructors watch a video of its methodology and then show up to 'teach' the class. MLIC believes that such a recruitment and training process used by Veritas Prep cannot ensure the quality of training that it claims that it delivers. Veritas Prep also makes claims on its web-site that are provably false. Let us expose four of those deceptions:

VERITAS DECEPTION 1: Veritas Prep cleverly mentions '99th percentile' against the names of 'its faculty' appearing on its web-page. It does not state that they have scored in the 99th percentile on the GMAT. They could have scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT or on the LSAT or in one of the two assessment sections of the GMAT. The company's ad in Craig's list (that appears with the regularity of postings by a pretentious guy who cannot hold on to his girl friends) merely requires of its potential instructors a 99th percentile score in any of the GMAT sections. Participants who took Veritas Prep's GMAT course at Tysons Corner, Virginia recently have reported that the instructor who taught the course admitted to the class that he had not taken the GMAT ever. Other participants who took the Veritas course in Philadelphia recently have reported that the instructor who taught the course claimed that he had scored 740 on the GMAT, a score that is not sufficient to place him the 99th percentile. The instructor who taught the Cincinnati OH class that was canceled on the Day 1 because the instructor was a no-show stated that he had scored in the 80th percentile on the GMAT. Therefore, Veritas may be fraudulently advertising that its instructors have all scored in the 99th percentile on the GMAT. The 'faculty' list posted on its website may be outdated, and may include the names of 'instructors' who may not be currently 'teaching' for the company.

VERITAS DECEPTION 2: Veritas falsely characterizes its 'attendance policy' as 'score guarantee'. The only GMAT prep company that offers GMAT Score Guarantee™ is MLICETS. Veritas Prep does not guarantee any score but merely allows you to retake its sessions once for any reason. Veritas Prep is also the only company that does not require you to attend all its training sessions. The only inference we can draw from this policy is that Veritas Prep is more interested in your money than in training you for the GMAT. If it were serious about training you, it would insist that you attend all its sessions. MLIC is the only GMAT prep company that actively teaches you the core concepts and procedures, makes you demonstrate that you have mastered them, and helps you improve in your areas of weakness by actively coaching you. MLIC beats Veritas Prep hands down.

VERITAS DECEPTION 3: Veritas Prep blatantly makes a fraudulent claim about its association with GMAC®, (Graduate Management Admission Council), the body that administers the GMAT® test. Veritas Prep claims: "Veritas works with the makers of the GMAT, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, and updates its course materials four times per year." GMAC® has flatly denied any such association and is proceeding against Veritas for this and other falsities represented on its website. Beware of phony and bald claims by Veritas. How could a company run by Yale MBA's and a JD from Missouri be obtuse enough to think that its fraud will not be caught? Any company that patently and blatantly makes false and fraudulent representations about its activities does not deserve your money or your time. Beware of Veritas scams. Choose industry-leading MLIC GMAT prep courses.

VERITAS DECEPTION 4: Veritas Prep claims that if offers 13 practice tests. It basically 'buys' the tests from 800Score.com, Arco, and Cambridge tests,and uses some retired GMAT tests to 'arm' you with the practice tests. Of Veritas’s practice tests, 2 are available for free from GMAC at www.mba.com, 6 are available for $18.95 at Cambridge Ed, 5 are available for $24.95 at 800score.com, and 2 are available for about $5.00 from ARCO. There are no other “Veritas” practice tests aside from the ones available from these sources. The tests created by 800Score.com are the same tests the company created 5 years ago, with no changes or updates. Veritas' claim that it 'updates' its tests 4 times a year is an utterly fraudulent statement, never mind its fraudulent claim of 'working with GMAC' for such updates. Veritas is the slimy spiderman caught with his hands in the cookie jar. Any company that lies to get your business does not deserve your business. Beware of phony and fraudulenet claims by Veritas Prep. People who have been Veritas instructors report that they had to teach the 'same old same old' for years, with no updates. Veritas Prep pulls a fast one on you and does not deserve your business.

VERITAS CLASS SIZE -- NOT GOOD FOR YOU: Veritas classes may have as many as 15 to 25 persons in a class. MLIC classes will never have more than 10 persons per class. Crowded classrooms such as the ones offered by Veritas are not fair to you, especially when you pay $1,500. Beware of some of the false claims that Veritas makes on its website.

VERITAS PREP METHODOLOGY: Veritas Prep in-class sessions run like this: If the instructor shows up as scheduled, then he or she will do 'Q&A' for the first 20 to 30 minutes. Then he or she will teach you some strategies, and then have you work with him or her through some 'key' problems (usually about 8 to 10, sometimes as few as 4 to 5) and then you are dismissed to go home and do whatever the heck you want. There will not be any timed practice tests. There will be no effort made to identify and rectify your weaknesses in GMAT-critical areas. If you are willing to pay $1,500 for Veritas Prep course, you have a right to expect pro-active coaching support in GMAT-critical areas. Veritas Prep is also known to scale back its training hours to 'accommodate' its uncommitted, untrained, part-time instructors (Veritas Prep scaled back the weekend class hours from 21 to 18 at Cincinnati, OH to accommodate its instructor who could not show up on Day 1 of the course). When it comes to GMAT coaching, no one beats MLIC GMAT Turboprep™ course!

Veritas Prep does not provide any training in pacing or managing time during their in-class sessions. Any training that does not coach you in the pacing under time-critical GMAT testing environment is not doing you a service. MLIc trains you in pacing and gives you specific help in working under time-critical GMAT Conditions.
Be informed and be smart -- Choose MLIC GMAT prep courses that offer full-time MBA instructors, and proactively coaches you in GMAT-critical areas, and backs up its training with industry-leading GMAT Score Guarantee™ MLIC trains more people per month in the major markets than any other company -- Kaplan, Princeton Review, Manhattan GMAT, Veritas Prep, Testmasters, and others.
MLIC GMAT PREP ADVANTAGE -- GET TRAINED, NOT JUST FED SOME USELESS TRICKS.

In short, Kaplan GMAT prep, Princeton Review, Manhattan Review, Manhattan GMAT, 800Score.com, Testmasters, and Veritas Elite GMAT prep courses are nothing but tutorial sessions that do not address your conceptual understanding of or your weaknesses in the GMAT assessment areas. Only the MLICETS GMAT prep courses offered in New York (NYC), London England, Frankfurt Germany, Munich, Singapore, Mumbai, Sydney, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia, and worldwide are based on patent-pending CPSD methodology that uniquely helps you develop strong GMAT-specific conceptual understanding, trains you in efficient PROCEDURES for maximizing your GMAT test-effectiveness in a timed-environment, gives you works-every-time STRATEGIES for picking the Correct response to all GMAT problems each and every time, and features real-time and GMAT-prep-course-participant-specific DIAGNOSTIC evaluation of your unique weaknesses so that you can be helped to overcome your deficiencies in GMAT sections and to shoot for a GMAT Score in the top 10%. All our GMAT prep courses are taught by full-time employees, who are MBA graduates from reputed Ivy League Business Schools such as Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, London Business School, INSEAD, etc. and who are required to take the GMAT test at least once each year and score in the 98th percentile or better each time.

Be sure to consider 5 factors in choosing your GMAT prep course: (1) Quality of in-class instructions and Instructors -- MLIC beats all other me-too courses hands down in this department. MLIC GMAT courses are taught by MBA graduates who have extensive consulting and teaching experience, and who are required to take the GMAT at least once a year and score in the 98th percentile or better; (2) In-Class Training hours -- MLIC offers 42 hours in their Turboprep GMAT courses and 24 hours in their 3-day intensive prep courses (which is more than offered by courses such as those offered by Kaplan). (3) Quality of Study and Training materials -- MLIC GMAT study guides and training materials are frequently updated to incorporate changes to the GMAT testing and to included newer types of GMAT questions appearing in the more recent tests. (4) Committed support before, during, and after the in-class GMAT training -- MLIC offers a total of 120 hours of training and provides the committed and industry-leading support right from the moment you sign up to the time you take the test. MLIC cares for you and wants to ensure that you achieve a score of at least 650; (5) Size of GMAT prep classes. Veritas admits as many as they can register, and they claim that their classes in major cities have about 20 students. Crowded groups do not allow instructors to identify weaknesses that the participants demonstrate. In contrast, MLIC courses are capped at 10 students, and most classes typically have 6-8 students per class. This small, compact group size allows us to apply our CPSD methodology and to coach you in the GMAT assessment areas.Enroll in the industry-leading MLICETS GMAT prep courses today! You cannot find a better value for your prep course dollars and prep time.

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ENROLL IN THE BEST GMAT PREP COURSE OFFERED BY MLICETS TODAY! Train with the BEST GMAT preparation company offering the Best GMAT training. MLIC trains more GMAT aspirants per month in all major markets than Kaplan Test Prep, Princeton Review, Veritas GMAT Prep, Manhattan GMAT, and all others.
VERITAS DECEPTIONS REDUX: Veritas Elite GMAT prep may scale back the number of training hours to accommodate its part-time, uncommitted instructors, as evidenced by an episode in Cincinnati, OH where Veritas Prep cut back the prep hours to 18 hours from 21 hours. In fact, the company sent email messages about the cancellation at 4 p.m. on the starting day of the class, and the 4 participants were stood up and left high and dry.
Veritas also fraudulently characterizes its 'retake the course for any reason' policy as a 'score guarantee'. Veritas Prep does not guarantee any specific GMAT score as MLIC does. Participants in Veritas' Weekend course in Vienna, VA have called to report that the instructor Ken Kleinfeld admitted to the clas that he had not taken the GMAT and that he was offering private tutoring sessions in North Carolina for SAT. Therefore, Veritas may also be fraudulently advertising that its instructors have all scored in the 99th percentile. Be informed. Be smart. Choose MLIC GMAT prep courses for no-nonsense, kick-ass, and serious coaching in GMAT assessment areas.

Manhattan GMAT offers 24 hours of in-class 'tricks' sessions that are taught by mostly non-MBA instructors. Manhattan GMAT (MGMAT) is the only GMAT prep company that does not believe that its training methodology is effective and, consequently, does not offer any guarantee. MGMAT has also been known to switch your registration in a class-room GMAT course to its expensive but useless GMAT VIRTUAL COURSE, if sufficient number of people do not enroll in its courses. Be smart. Be informed of facts. Think MLIC for non-nonsense and kick-ass GMAT coaching programs.

MLIC GMAT prep courses -- industry-leading, goal-driven, and skill-enhancing GMAT coaching programs. You cannot find a better value for your time and money. Do not take chances with your money, time, and prospects for admission to A-list schools. Register in MLIC GMAT courses today!

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++ GMAT TEST REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR THE PEARSON VUE GMAT EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2006. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE NEW REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR GMAT TESTING EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2006 AND TO LEARN ABOUT THE IMPORTANT CHANGES TO GMAT TESTING AND GMAT TEST SCORE REPORTING EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2006. NEW! STANFORD WILL ACCEPT GRE SCORES FOR MBA ADMISSIONS. HARVARD AND PRINCETON WILL NOT HAVE EARLY ADMISSION PROCEDURE STARTING 2007.

Stanford Graduate School of Business has announced that it will accept GRE or GMAT Scores for admission consideration starting with the Fall 2007 admission to its MBA class. The reason appears to be that Stanford fears that minorities, women, and other ethnic groups may be deterred from Business School Admission and may seek alternative opportunities in law and medicine. Rather than accept lower GMAT scores from these otherwise excluded groups, the school may have decided to accept GRE (Graduate Record Examination) Scores in order to maintain the School average and median scores for the GMAT. Sounds like a clever move by Stanford GSB. We wonder whether other Graduate Schools of Business may follow suit or stick to their GMAT Score requirement.
Schools such as Harvard and Princeton University have already announced that they will eliminate early admission deadlines starting with the 2007 admission season. The reason, again, appears to be that early admission deadlines favor strong candidates and leave the not-so-strong to be rejected when they apply late. Schools desire to have diversity, with participation by hitherto under-represented groups.

GMAT TEST REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR THE PEARSON VUE GMAT EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2006 AND IMPORTANT CHANGES TO GMAT TESTING AND GMAT SCORE REPORTING: As far as GMAT^TM is concerned, ETS^TM is history and nobody is shedding any tears over the divorce. Pearson Vue and ACT is the new 800 pound gorilla in the room now and you better get used to it. You should know about some significant changes to GMAT testing and GMAT Test Score Reporting effective January 1, 2006. Pearson Vue is the Electronic testing divison of Pearson Educational Measurement (PEM) group, which administers several standardized tests including the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT-Reasoning Test) for College Board^tm.
PEARSON EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT is in the midst of unanticipated controversy surrounding its handling of the Scoring of the October 2005 SAT test. Some 4000 of the close to 500,000 test-takers received score reports that under-reported their total SAT Scores by as many as 400 out of 2400 points. Pearson ED, the group of which Pearson Vue is a member, said in a news release, "SAT errors , which affected 4,000 students out of 495,000 who took that test, arose in part because of excessive moisture that caused the answer sheets to expand before they were scanned at its large Texas test-processing site. Another factor, PearsonEd said, was that its scanners were not picking up some lightly marked answers on the SAT answer sheet. The company, Pearson Educational Measurement (PEM), said in a statement that it was taking steps to make sure that "this unfortunate situation will not happen again." The latest news is that the executives at Pearson Educational Measurement are being called to testify before the U.S.A congress and explain why the scoring snafu did not make the testing company liable for messing up the admission and scholarship prospects for thousands of high-school graduates who took the SAT Reasoning test.
What does this episode mean for the GMAT test-takers, who take the test on the computer? Nothing at all, we hope. The Scoring of computer adaptive or computer based test does not involve scanning sheets of paper that can stick to one another, and is more reliable. (Are we guilty of assuming that the computer will not mess up the scoring by going berserk?) Let us keep our fingers crossed, shall we?

The paper and pencil format of GMAT is now dead. GMAT is administered worldwide in Computer Adaptive Testing format only.

Walk-in registrations for GMAT Testing are no longer permitted. Prior appointments must be made for GMAT testing in all testing centers. You can register to take the test by following the Telephonic registration procedure described below or by logging on to GMAT TEST REGISTRATION ONLINE.

GMAT testing will not be offered on Saturdays and Sundays. Prometric used to offer GMAT testing on the Weekend days, including Sundays, in some cities. Pearson Vue would like to observe the Sabbath on Saturdays and Sundays. Register early in order to firm up your testing date.

GMAT test centers will no longer offer scratch paper during the GMAT testing. Instead, you will receive TWO dry erase NOTE BOARDS and a PEN that must be returned to the proctor at the GMAT test center when you leave or when you request a change of note-board. This is not a big deal but the earlier strategy of writing down (on scratch paper) formulas in Math will not work. You will be better off remembering all formulas and rules before you head to the testing center.

Test takers will no longer have to wait two to three weeks to get their official score reports by mail. They’ll be able to access their GMAT test score reports and send Official GMAT Score reports to schools through a secure online system. GMAC will, at least for the forseeable future, offer “Paper in a Pinch” score reports for those who don’t have access to a computer. GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) will not charge a fee for this paper-based score reporting service until further advise.

When ETS was administering the GMAT, the official GMAT Score Report contained the last three scores on the GMAT taken in the past. Effective January 2006, Pearson Vue and ACT will report ALL GMAT SCORES obtained during the past 5 years. This is a significant change because the Graduate Schools of Business will know your GMAT Score history during a longer period and because you will not be able to 'wipe off' the record a GMAT score that you want to forget about.

The format of the GMAT will remain the same, and the GMAT test will continue to measure your skill in the three different assessment areas: GMAT Quantitative Assessment, GMAT Verbal Assessment, and GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment. The Analytical Writing Section will continue to receive a separate score on the same scale between 2.0 and 6.0; the two adaptive sections on the GMAT, the quantitative assessment and the verbal assessment, will each receive scaled scores (0 to 60) as before, and the TOTAL score on the GMAT will remain 800. The GMAT test-scores on the multiple-choice, adaptive sections(Verbal and Quantitative Sections) will be based on the number of questions answered within the allotted time.

COSMETIC CHANGES
The GMAT® exam will go through some cosmetic changes as a result of the transition from ETS® to Pearson Vue®:

The font and background color on the screen will change for the better

GMAT Reading Comprehension questions that point to specific sections of the reading passage will direct you to look at highlighted sections, not underlined sections as was the case in the past.

You will be given two (2) erasable noteboards and a pen when you enter the GMAT testing room instead of scratch paper and a pencil. The Verbal and Quantitative sections will remain Computer Adaptive, with the difficulty level of the GMAT® testing constantly adjusting to your comfort level as demonstrated through your responses to the GMAT® questions.

What has not changed in the light of these rather significant changes to the GMAT testing and GMAT Test Score reporting? MLICETS' commitment to providing the best, industry-leading, goal-driven, skill-enhancing, and kick-ass GMAT preparation and coaching courses. More than ever before, MLICETS GMAT Turboprep and ONLINE prep courses are more relevant to the new realities of GMAT Testing and GMAT testpreparation. ENROLL IN THE BEST GMAT PREPARATION COURSES OFFERED BY MLICETS TODAY and get trained to shoot for and to achieve a GMAT score of better than 700..
GMAT TEST REGISTRATION PROCEDURE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2006

ONLINE REGISTRATION OPTION: You can sign up to take the GMAT by logging on to REGISTER TO TAKE THE GMAT. You can check available dates and the GMAT testing Centers closest to your place of residence. You can then register to take the GMAT on any weekday (Monday Through Friday). This is probably the easiest and the fastest procedure. It is unclear how frequently cancellation of test appointments is updated on the online system in order to reflect test availability dates accurately. If you are unable to find a GMAT test date of your choosing, you may want to call the GMAT test registration telephone numbers listed below and confirm that the online information about the available dates for GMAT testing is accurate.

TELEPHONE REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR GMAT TESTING EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2006

You can schedule your GMAT test date for January 1, 2006 or later by calling the following numbers in Americas, Europe, Asia PAcific, and China:

IF YOU ARE IN CALL THIS NUMBER FAX NUMBER

AMERICAS INCLUDING USA, CANADA, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA 1 800 717 GMAT(4628)
+1 952 681 3680 +1 952 681 3681

ASIA PACIFIC INCLUDING SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, AUSTRALIA, TOKYO +61 294 78 5430 +1 61 2 9901 3330

INDIA - CHENNAI, MUMBAI (BOMBAY), NEW DELHI, KOLKATTA, BANGALORE, HYDERABAD +91 120 532 GMAT(4628)

EUROPE - LONDON ENGLAND, FRANKFURT, MUNICH, BERLIN, PARIS, AMSTERDAM, MILAN, BARCELONA, GENEVA, ZURICH,AUSTRIA, RUSSIA 44 (0) 161 855 7219 44 (0) 161 855 7301

CHINA 86 1062 79 8877 86 108 252 0243
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++ RANKING BY U.S.NEWS AND WORLD REPORT OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS WORLDWIDE OFFERING M.B.A PROGRAMS FOR 2006-2007

1. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, BOSTON 2. Stanford University GSB, California

3. WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UPENN, PA 4. SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, M.I.T., BOSTON

4. KELLOGG SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, IL(TIE) 6. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GSB, CHICAGO

7. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS)- TIED 9. TUCK AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, NEW HAMPSHIRE

10. UCLA - ANDERSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS. CALIFORNIA 11. FUQUA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT - DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, N.C.

12. ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIV. OF MICHIGAN- ANN ARBOR, MI

13. STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
DARDEN - UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (TIE) 15. YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CT

16. TENNER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - CORNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURGH
CORNELL UNIVERSITY JOHNSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (TIE) 18. EMORY UNIVERSITY (GOIZUETA), ATLANTA, GA
McCOMBS- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (TIE)

20. KENAN-FLAGLER - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
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++ RANKING BY FINANCIAL TIMES (FT) OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS WORLDWIDE OFFERING M.B.A PROGRAMS FOR 2006-2007

1. WHARTON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, UPENN, PHILADELPHIA 2. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, BOSTON

3. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CA 4. COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL, NEW YORK

5. LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL, LONDON, ENGLAND 6. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GSB, CHICAGO

7. STERN SCHOOL AT NYU, NEW YORK 8. INSEAD AT FONTAINEBLEU, PARIS, FRANCE
AYER RAJAH AVE, SINGAPORE

9. TUCK AT DARTMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE 10.SLOAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, M.I.T., BOSTON

11. INSTITUTO DE EMPRESA, MADRID, SPAIN 12. IESE, BARCELONA, SPAIN

13. IMD, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 14. ROSS AT UMICH, ANN ARBOR, MIC

15.HAAS AT U.C. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 16. KELLOGG AT NORTHWESTERN, EVANSTON, IL

17. SCHULICH AT YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, CANADA 18. ANDERSON SCHOOL AT UCLA,LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

19. SAID SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 20. CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL, SHANGHAI, CHINA

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BASE SALARIES (EXCLUDING PERKS) FOR MBA GRADUATES AND 5 YEARS LATER. PROVERBIAL GLASS CEILING REDUX
++ UNIVERSUM SURVEY - TOP EMPLOYERS FOR MBA GRADUATES AND SALARIES FOR MBA GRADUATES

TOP EMPLOYERS FOR ALL STUDENTS POPULAR EMPLOYERS FOR FEMALE GRADUATES

McKINSEY
GOOGLE
GOLDMAN SACHS
BAIN AND CO
BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP
CITI GROUP
APPLE COMPUTERS
GENERAL ELECTRIC
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON
MORGAN STANLEY McKINSEY
GOOGLE
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON
BAIN AND COMPANY
BOSTON CONSULING GROUP
WALT DISNEY
PROCTER AND GAMBLE
CITI GROUP
GOLDMAN SACHS
APPLE COMPUTERS
L'OREAL
STARBUCKS
NIKE

BASE SALARIES FOR MBA GRADUATES AS OF 2006

AVERAGE BASE SALARY FOR MBA GRADUATES BASE SALARY FOR MBA'S AFTER 5 YEARS

ALL MBA GRADUATES $88,087 $167,052

MALE MBA GRADUATES $94,710 $191,541

FEMALE MBA'S $86,805 $156,290

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++ CLICK HERE FOR FORBES MAGAZINE RANKING OF GRADUATE SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS IN U.S.A, CANADA, Far East, AND IN EUROPE. HINT: IF YOU ARE APPLYING TO TUCK OR TO WHARTON MBA programs, EXPECT TOUGH COMPETITION. Part-time program applicants will face tough competition at NYU-Stern and at UCLA, Los Angeles.

BEST U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS EUROPEAN AND CANADIAN BEST PART-TIME MBA SCHOOLS

1. Darthmouth/Tuck
2. Wharton GSM, Philadelphia
3. Chicago GSB
4. Columbia Business School, NYC
5. Yale SOM
6. Stanford
7. Harvard Business School
8. Virginia/Darden
9. Cornell/Johnson
10. Kellogg/Northwestern, Chicago
1. INSEAD (France and Singapore)
2. London Business School (England)
3. IMD (Switzerland)
4. IESE (Spain)
5. SDA Bocconi (Italy)
6. Instituto de Empresa (Spain)
7. Oxford (England)
8. Cranfield (England)
9. Cambridge (England)
10. York Univ./Schulich, Toronto (Canada)
Best Part-Time M.B.A. Programs
1. NYU/Stern, NYC
2. UCLA/Anderson, Los Angeles
3. Kellogg/Northwestern, Chicago
4. Chicago GSB
5. University of Michigan/Ross
6. Minnesota/Carlson
7. Maryland/Smith
8. CMU/Tepper, Pittsburgh
9. Fordham, New York NYC
10.SMU/Cox, Dallas TX

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++ ETS® ANNOUNCES TWO NEW QUESTION TYPES TO BE TESTED IN GRE GENERAL TEST EFFECTIVE NOV. 2007. CLICK TO READ ABOUT THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE GRE QUESTION TYPES BEGINING IN NOVEMBER 2007

GRE® GENERAL TEST will include two new question types
Beginning in November 2007, GRE General Test takers may encounter one of two new questions in the Verbal Reasoning or Quantitative Reasoning sections of the computer-based GRE General Test. The new Verbal question type is a text completion question that requires the test taker to fill in two or three blanks within a passage from separate multiple-choice lists. Currently, the Verbal section contains text completion questions that require test takers to fill in one blank within a passage from a single multiple-choice list. The new Quantitative question type will be a numeric entry question that requires test takers to type their answer as a number in a box, or as a fraction in two boxes.
Example of the new question in Verbal Reasoning:

Directions: For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The narratives that vanquished peoples have created of their defeat have, according to Schivelbusch, fallen into several identifiable types. In one of these, the vanquished manage to ____ (i)_____ the victor’s triumph as the result of some spurious advantage, the victors being truly inferior where it counts. Often the winners ____ (ii)_____ this interpretation, worrying about the cultural or moral costs of their triumph and so giving some credence to the losers’ story.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)

anoint take issue with

construe disregard

acknowledge collude in

Example of the new question in QUANTITATIVE Reasoning:

Directions: Solve the problem and type in the answer in the box provided below the question

The functions f and g are defined by f (x)=|2x+1| and g(x) = 3 for all numbers x. What is the least value of c for which f (c) =g(c) ?
c =
TYPE IN YOUR ANSWER HERE

Click on the answer box and type in a number. Backspace to erase.

A few months ago, the GRE® Board and ETS® announced that the proposed major changes to the GRE General Test have been scrapped while efforts to improve the test continue. The reason provided for the scrapping was that the testing company, ETS®, was not ready with the internet-based testing networks in time for the roll-out and had concerns about availability of the test in some markets. While ETS and the GRE Board remain committed to improving the test, on balance, GRE officials said that they believed that the problems guaranteeing complete access to the new Internet-based GRE test outweighed the benefits of immediately moving to the new format. The primary reason for cancelling the launch of the revised GRE General Test was GRE test-taker access. Plans called for the revised test to be delivered over the new worldwide network of 3,200 Internet-based testing centers. Despite the network's size, ETS officials did not believe that full access to the General Test for all students could be confidently assured.
"As the launch approached, ETS determined that, despite the aggressive development of our Internet-based testing network, we could not guarantee complete access to all students needing to take the exam" Payne explains. "While the graduate community supports, and in fact helped develop and pilot the revised GRE General Test, they have also stated that they are satisfied with the current GRE General Test, until such time as improvements can be gradually implemented. ETS is being responsive to their best interests."
Registrations in India, China and Japan, which had been closed, will be reopened in the near future to accommodate application deadlines. Likewise, registrations for the current GRE General Test will continue elsewhere.
MLICETS will monitor the changes as and when they are announced and implemented, and make appropriate changes to its training methods and the curriculum so that you will continue to receive the best, kick-ass, and skill-enhancing coaching for GRE General Test. MLICETS -- the industry-leader in goal-driven and skill-enhancing GRE, GMAT, and LSAT preparation courses worldwide.
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