I remember years ago many sat for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) to seek admission to the more prestigious MBA programmes in the United States. For some reason, many Malaysian students failed to perform well in this exam. They then argued that the test was irrelevant to their intended course of study.
For obvious reasons, I think we would dismiss as unimportant or irrelevant the qualifications we failed to get or exams where we fail to excel.
As far as I know, GMAT is probably one of the most robust tests on quantitative, reasoning and language ability of a person.
When we are short on technical skill and expertise, we divert our attention to soft skills. Hence, it is common to hear arguments that qualifications are not important,…
