Many Master’s programs, particularly business-oriented ones, require that applicants achieve a certain score on the GMAT. Acronyms like this might bring back high school nightmares of SATs and ACTs. Who can remember what those letters stand for? Well, GMAT stands for Graduate Management Admission Test. Like the SAT and ACT, the GMAT measures the applicant’s abilities on a numerical scale. It contains a verbal section that evaluates reading comprehension, critical reasoning, and sentence correction. The numerical reasoning section evaluates problem solving, i.e. math skills, and data sufficiency. Finally, there is the analytical writing section. Each section is timed and is scored separately. Different questions are worth more, depending on level of difficulty, and the number of questions answered figures into the total score.

If this all seems a bit mystifying, a gmat prep course can help. A prep course can help give a prospective test-taker a handle on what to expect. He or she can get acquainted with the structure of the test and the types of questions. A wealth of prep courses are available online. Some of them offer hundreds, or even thousands of sample questions.

On the test day, the applicant can choose up to five schools to have scores sent to. After taking the GMAT, the applicant will need to allow a few weeks for scores to be sent to the selected schools. After completing the test, the applicant will have taken one giant step closer to graduate school and that coveted Master’s degree.

How do you pick your tone, when the time comes to make up your mind on it? Do you go with a song that you’ve known for awhile, that really speaks to you in a way that will still be the same years from now? Do you pick one that sounds really good, and gets you to want to move right now? Do you go with a ring tone that doesn’t have a beat at all, and just sounds like something interesting, like that one where the really high voiced guy sounds like he’s an engine that’s idling?

There are only about a million different ring tones to choose from — and that probably doesn’t count a lot of different kinds that most people have never heard of. While the ring tone you choose is a deeply personal decision, it is the kind of thing that everybody who hangs around you for any length of time is going to be exposed to at least every once in awhile. And the impression your ring tone makes on people can be subtle and powerful at the same time. So what kind of tone were you thinking about getting on your phone?