Kathmandu: Ashish Bhardwaj, South Asian Regional Director for Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the association that initiates the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) universal examinations, addresses Republica on Tuesday night at Hyatt Regency Hotel. 

On a three-day visit to promote the GMAT examinations, Ashish has been working with prominent test-readiness offices like UCCI, NIEC, and Alfa-Beta to help make GMAT examinations no doubt understood amongst the administration understudies inside of the nation. 

As of late, the GMAT examinations have encountered a 40% drop in test takers from 2009 to 2011, and Ashish accepts this to be a direct result of deficient data dispersal. Since Nepali understudies contemplating outside of the nation still appear to be pulled in to the examinations, the decrease in test-takers in the nation must be accounted as because of the absence of data. 

"Considering all the insights, we need to record the lessening in test-takers inside of the nation to the way that test isn't surely understood inside of the nation," says Ashish. "We're going for more companion to-companions promoting of the GMAT. On the off chance that a companion informs his companion regarding the GMAT and the chain proceeds, we're certain we'll encounter a noteworthy ascent in GMAT test-takers," he includes.

The GMAT examinations, currently, is the industry’s leading examination for management students. Accepted across the world, in the US, the UK, and Australia, among other countries, the GMAT is the gateway to graduate management education abroad. Another fact that seems to amaze Ashish is that Nepali students who have taken the GMAT examinations send 80% of their scores to colleges in the US and only 6% of these scores to Indian colleges. Ashish believes that India has a much better prospect for students, since it is closer to home and cheaper in comparison to the US. But since Nepali students don’t know about that fact that Indian institutions are growing in the quality of education, there have been low application rates to Indian colleges. He thinks that due to this lack of knowledge about colleges in India, Nepali students are missing out on opportunities for better management studies aboard.

“We think that Nepali candidates are missing out on a lot of prospective colleges aboard because they are not aware. And my mission here is to try and give this information to students who want to pursue management studies outside of their country,” adds Ashish.

Kathmandu College of Management (KCM) is the official center for the GMAT tests. It costs US$250 per person to sit for a test. 

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