graduate degree in business or management can transform your professional life, opening the door to pro-motions, new opportunities, and new careers. For better or for worse, which business school you attend depends to some degree upon how well you do on the Graduate Management Admissions Test®(GMAT®). Like the SAT®exam, ACT Assessment®, and GRE®test, the GMAT exam is a standardized test designed to help schools determine how well you might succeed in their graduate program. Of course, the GMAT exam is just one of the tools schools use to assess a candidate’s knowledge and skills, and it is by no means a def i n-itive measure. But it is an important test, and because your scores can determine your eligibility for certain programs and give you an edge over other candidates, it is important that you do well on the exam. The GMAT exam is sponsored by the Graduate Management Admission Council®(GMAC®), a non-prof i t association of representatives from business schools around the world. Nearly 2,000 business schools use the GMAT exam, which is developed and administered by the Educational Testing Service®(ETS®), the same organization that develops and administers a number of other standardized tests including the SAT and TOEFL®exams. The majority of people taking the GMAT exam seek to enter MBA programs, but an increas-ing number of other graduate business and management programs are now offered, and many of these pro-