When Babak Soltani began studying for the GMAT, he was shocked by how much basic math he’d forgotten.
“It was half-demoralizing and half-encouraging when I saw how much better I was doing on the verbal versus the quantitative,” says Soltani, who studied engineering as an undergraduate and is currently a business development executive at Blackboard Inc. “I think just going back to doing math calculations is very hard, especially for Americans, who learned multiplication and long division in elementary school and then used a calculator for the rest of their lives.”
Soltani is one of hundreds of thousands who will take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) test this year, hoping their scores will augment a tailored application to…
