{"id":21214,"date":"2016-06-14T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=21214"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:57:06","slug":"mission-admission-taking-gmat-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-taking-gmat-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Admission: Taking the GMAT Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21243 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/work-933061_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Admission: Taking the GMAT Again - mbaMission\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/work-933061_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/work-933061_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/work-933061_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/work-933061_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When candidates who have already taken the GMAT exam once ask us whether they should take the test again, we always\u00a0reply with this key question: \u201cDo you think you can do better?\u201d If the individual does indeed believe that he\/she can improve, the next question we inevitably get is \u201cWhat do business schools think of multiple scores?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, most MBA admissions committees do not frown on candidates taking the GMAT more than once. Many applicants feel that they have to be \u201cperfect\u201d the first time and that any subsequent test they take\u2014particularly\u00a0if they receive a\u00a0lower score on it\u2014might be damaging to their candidacy. This is not the case. Dartmouth Tuck, for one, anticipates that applicants will take the exam more than once and openly states its\u00a0willingness to \u201cconsider your highest quantitative and highest verbal scores,\u201d if they occur on separate tests. Meanwhile, other programs have been known to call candidates and tell them that if they can increase their GMAT scores, they will be offered admission.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Accepting a candidate\u2019s highest GMAT scores is actually in an MBA program\u2019s best interest, because doing so will raise the school\u2019s GMAT average, which is then reported to rankings bodies \u00a0such as\u00a0<em>Bloomberg Businessweek\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>\u00a0and could positively affect\u00a0the school\u2019s position in these surveys. So, do not be afraid to take the test two or even three times. It can only help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. When candidates who have already taken the GMAT exam once ask us whether they should take the test again, we always\u00a0reply with this key question: \u201cDo you think you can do better?\u201d If the individual does indeed believe that &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-taking-gmat-again\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&nbsp;<i class=\"fal fa-sm fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-admission"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mission Admission: Taking the GMAT Again | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/mission-admission-taking-gmat-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mission Admission: Taking the GMAT Again | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday. 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