News: GMAT? Registration Volume

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Current GMAT? Volume

GMAT? Registration Volume

Year-to-date GMAT? registration volume through March 31, 2008?71,776 worldwide?shows an 11.09% increase over the number of registrations recorded during the same period in 2007.

The number of GMAT registrations in the United States during the first three months of calendar year 2008 increased 5.25% compared with registration volume during the comparable period in 2007. Outside the United States, registration volume increased 22.20% during the period.

The following table displays the four-year trend in GMAT? registration volume through the first three months of each calendar year:

• Current year-to-date worldwide registration volume is greater than comparable figures for each of the years studied.
  
• GMAT registrations in the United States during the first three months of calendar year 2008 outnumber registrations in the United States for each of the other years studied.
  
• GMAT registration volume outside the United States exceeds comparable figures for each of the years studied.
  

GMAT? Testing Volume

Year-to-date GMAT volume through March 31, 2008?59,612 worldwide?shows an 11.45% increase compared to the number of tests taken during the same period in 2007.

The number of GMAT tests taken in the United States during the first three months of calendar year 2008 increased 7.58% compared with testing volume during the same period in 2007. Outside the United States, testing volume increased 18.78% during the period.

The following table displays the four-year trend in GMAT volume through the first three months of each calendar year:

• Current year-to-date worldwide volume is greater than comparable figures for each of the years studied.
  
• The number of GMAT tests taken in the United States during the first three months of calendar year 2008 exceeds the number of tests taken in the United States during each of the years studied.
  
• GMAT tests taken outside the United States during this time period outnumber the volume of tests taken outside the United States for each of the years studied.
  

* In January 2006, GMAC transitioned to a new vendor.

Notes on How GMAT? Volume Is Reported

Numbers Reflect Tests, Not People

When we at GMAC report GMAT test volume, we report the number of tests taken, rather than the number of people who took the tests.

Repeat Testing

Approximately 21% of GMAT tests are taken by people who have taken the test more than once within a year. Test takers are permitted to test as many as five times within a 12-month period.

Of tests that score within the mean Total score range for the GMAT test, 500 to 540, the proportion taken by repeat test takers is approximately 28%.

Tests Taken for Nonbusiness Programs

According to GMAC research, approximately 20% of GMAT tests are taken for the purpose of submitting scores to nonbusiness graduate programs.

For More Information

More information about GMAT test volume, including how it is reported and what it means, is available in The GMAT. You can send questions to webmaster1@gmac.com.