Скачать или смотреть The GMAT is NOT an Intelligence Test

I've been teaching for more than 25 years, and one of the things that always breaks my heart is when I see somebody struggling on the GMAT, struggling on the GRE, and they say, “I must be dumb. I'm not smart enough for business school.”

If that's running through your head, I have two things to say. First of all, these exams are never meant, have never been designed as intelligence tests. They're tests of very specific skills, tests in a very specific way, often multiple choice. Your ability to fill in multiple choice bubbles is not intelligence, will never measure intelligence. That is not what it is.

Second, maybe more importantly, business schools do a great job of figuring out who is gonna be a capable business leader. They have all this information about you. They've got your GPA. They've got your academic transcript. They've got your work experience -- they're gonna focus on that.

Yes, your test score matters. They need to know that you can handle the coursework and the test scores matter, but the best business leaders I've ever met don't necessarily have the best test scores and business schools know that. So if the “dumb” word is running through your head, please turn it off and remind yourself, these are not ever tests of intelligence.