以下是引用tiandaochouqin在2006-8-25 10:12:00的发言:I don't want to argue with you. I just want to say sth. objectively. It seems all the people here are very concerned their gmat scores. It is weird. (it's not weird. Many people here just want to be perfection). Not all the people with higher gmat scores have strong knowledge and skills. This is a fact not an opinion. (that's true, but vice versa). I was told by a person who makes the judgement in applications that he doesn't like some students with 700+ but have very bad performance in the class, and this is a very common thing happened today. ( As I said, it doesn't mean a high G score will lead to poor performance in class. There's no corelation here.) Gmat is just a test that cannot fairly show whether a person has enough skills. Take an example in my current class, a person who has a mark lower than 550, but that is the best student in the whole class. (that's possible. But it shouldn't be a good example to encourage everyone here not to treat GMAT seriously. ) Some people in this forum have a tendency to get a mark as high as possible. In my opinion, this is not wise. You can use this time and energy to do some meaningful jobs and make a lot progresses there. (To a certain amount of people here, getting a high score in GMAT doesn't really cost them that much time and energy.) MBA is just a study, not a guarantee for getting a better job. When graduating, people who get a better job are always the one who have strong working background BEFORE they start MBA. I know here are a lot of gmat taker are still students in Universities. They do not know how much important the working experience is and how important the communicative skills are. For me, I want to study in US because my family is there. If I study in Canada, I won't have any concern about this as I am confident in applying two good schools. I want to share my experience to someone who has lower marks but has strong skills in some particular areas. (Given your background, it might be easier for you to go to and talk around in order to get into those two good schools you mentioned above, because you are in Canada. For many CDers who are still in China, it's not the best and most convenient way to get into schools in US. They want to enhance their background, including GMAT score, the easiest one to improve in a relevant short time, as much as possible. Sounds reasonable to me. ) Again, working experience is more important. (I will say that every aspect is important. If I were you, I'll try to improve all that I can, unless there's something I really can't improve. ) When I told them what I did in the past years, they said I am the right person they are looking for and they expect me share my experience in their classes. So I would say, they want to know what you did rather than to see a higher mark. They were tired of seeing a person who has good mark but bad skills.They didn't say most of them were from China, but I can feel that. ( If high G score with poor skills is one bad example, then a low G score with average w/e is the other end. I guess many people here just want to be balanced. ) One more thing, to improve your effective communication skills is very important but you don't need to be perfect because your english cannot be as good as an american's forever. So just try as much as you can. Finally, what I want to say is that if you previously think your G score is low, then face it. What to do with the lower score, either to retake the test or to live with it, is your call. I don't agree with your opinion on undervaluing the importance of a G score, but do agree with you on the importance of w/e. When you can get both, don't lose either. |