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Yes, the’re a good number of individuals who are merely like you taking the GMAT exam. That’s the number of individuals that the guys who organize the GMAT exam–the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) reported for 2009. 267,000 people in 2009– virtually where the 2008 number of 264,700 was.

We’ll see what happens next year as the GRE comes into play for more universities as a choice to the GMAT, though GMAT is still the one the most schools think about.

Additional takeaways:

1) There are a great amount of people outside the US who’re taking the GMAT now– at least more than it was in the past. For the initially in the exam’s history, there were more international test takers than US test takers–just about 51% were foreigners.

2) There’s a trend of higher quality business schools around the world outside the US. Itused to be that all the international students were sending their test scores to U.S. business schools. About 75% of them did this. But now, that number is down a little bit to 65%-indicating that more of them are sending scores to business schools around the world. There is less of a U.S.-centric mentality when it relates to applying to business school from a global perspective.

3) Also, the’re relatively more women taking the exam now-about 105,000 out of the 265,000 or so taking the exam.

Anyway, just some interesting trends in test taking that I thought you may find interesting.

Interesting to see what will happen next year as ETS tries to market themselves and promote their GRE exam as a choice to the GMAT.

How will these numbers look better? Well, a lot of that depends on how the economy will do. If the latest boosts in wall street bonus is any indication of the economic recovery in the next few years, then perhaps more people will flock over to jobs instead of school. However, if the economy contains to remain weak on a global scale, then we can expect GMAT enrollments to stay high and possibly elevate slightly.

This article was authored by GMAT Prep tutor and expert, Zeke Lee. Zeke is the founder of The GMAT Pill Study Method and has aided numerous students ace the GMAT exam in as little time as possible. Although his secret techniques were limited to wealthy students who could afford $200/hour a few years ago, Zeke has now opened the door to his special strategies to the average student. Online GMAT Prep

So looks like the GMAC organization that runs the GMAT exam is cracking down on being unfaithful in China. In other words, some students are violating the rules of the GMAT and finding ways to see test questions before their actual exam. This is happening on the internet.

In 2009 alone, 32 scores were revoked by GMAC and 24 test takers were blocked from retaking the GMAT for 5 years.

Some web sites gave away live GMAT exams for a fee so now there is intending to be increased security steps and sophisticated web crawling software to fish out these sites before they are in a position to distribute sensitive material to the populace.

Increased security processes like finger print reading, and digital photographs, as well as passport scans will be used.

GMAC also has sophisticated web crawling software to find which websites are distributing GMAT queries.

The fact of the matter is cheating will always exist in one form or another. With GRE encroaching on GMAT territory, GMAT guys need to be on their best behavior to prove to business schools that their exam is better than the GRE. Otherwise, the GMAT exam will be losing market share.

I wonder what happens in the future. Will they have sophisticated CIA level security measures that they use in the TV show 24? Who knows. Security will always be a concern. And with the pace of technology progress these days, more and more security measures will be present–everything from hidden cameras to live security analysis. The future will tell. The incentive to cheat because of the competitive nature in MBA admissions and GMAT test preparation will always be there. It is just a matter of controlling it so it doesn’t get out of hand.

Perhaps even another reason why GMAC is increasing security measures for their GMAT measure is to maintain the integrity of their exam value in the eyes of business schools as the GRE exam encroaches onto their territory. Many top business schools are now accepting either the GMAT or the GRE exam for a variety of reasons ranging form attracting a more diverse student body to just expanding their overall applicant pool. Whatever the case may be, you can expect security measures to go up in the future.

This article was guest-written by GMAT teacher and guru, Zeke Lee. Zeke is the founder of The GMAT Pill Study Method and has assisted numerous students ace the GMAT exam in as little time as possible. Although his secret techniques were limited to privileged students who could pay $200/hour a few years ago, Zeke has now opened the door to his unique strategies to the average student. Online GMAT Prep