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Higher test scores have intensified competition to M.B.A. programs

Oct. 5, 2016 6:36 p.m. ET

By JOHN SIMONS

Average scores on the most widely used business-school entrance exams are going up, but that doesn’t mean students are getting any smarter.

Thanks in part to new rules that allow test-takers to cancel low scores and try the test again, more prospective M.B.A.s are taking the Graduate Management Admissions Test, or GMAT, two, three and even four times to boost their scores.

Admissions experts say the rising scores have…

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