If you’re of the 250000 business school hopefuls taking the GMAT this year, you’ll want to use this friendly guide to outsmart your competition . you’ll discover how to think “the GMAT way” by sltering your approach to various types of questions- and chat your study progress the fun and easy way with reviws and sample tests. The bad news is, you can't avoid the GMAT torture if you intend to go to graduate business school. Because of the grade inflation that skews GPAs, most graduate business schools now require the GMAT as a way of separating the wheat from the chaff. Now for the good news: By doing well on the GMAT you can overcome years of goofing off in school. A dynamite GMAT score can get you into a graduate program that otherwise wouldn't look twice at you and your C+ GPA. On the other hand, even with a GPA of 4.0 from a top-flight school, you'll be facing some pretty stiff competition, and a high GMAT score could make the difference between being admitted or not.