I actually had no idea what the GMAT was when I took it. I signed up since I had to for my Graduate admissions. I can't tell you what I made, since its been 5 years, and the minimum GMAT score needed was 450 (or at least it is now, and I can't imagine they lowered it). Edit: Have you taken it once before? How do you know you need to study?
I don't know if that's true or not. I suspect CPA >= MBA, assuming you have no desire to do IT Project Management/Budgeting, Consumer Brand Management for a big retail company or something else without a finance or banking component. For the CPA, all you need is the 30 or so accounting hours: which may be obtained via MS Accounting, BS Accounting or just Accounting Certificate programs at a solid public Uni.
Never taken it before but everyone I know that has or plans to take it has or will study for it. I guess I'll take a practice test and see what level I'm at.
Have you taken it? There's a lot of math that if you're not fresh out of high school, you may not remember. So, yes, you need to study for it.
Sorry, I see that you've taken it. If you want to get a 450 and go to UofH victoria (not that there's anything wrong with that), then you're fine not studying. But, if you want to go to a good school, UT, Rice, etc, you need to study. I woudln't waste my time and money going top tier school, imo.
IIRC, the math wasn't overly difficult, but I did score higher on the verbal than on the math, which I've never done before in any standard testing. I didn't take a single math class in college, which probably made it harder, but I also was a very advanced math student in high school.
