Blog Archive MBA News Integrated Reasoning Scares Off Test Takers Regardless of an ongoing decrease in GMAT test takers, forthcoming MBAs ought not rush to conjecture more broadly about the condition of business college. This past June, the quantity of test takers supposedly fell by 48,000 (17%) contrasted and the earlier year. While this may look to certain pundits like more air murmuring out of the MBA bubble, Bloomberg Businessweek contends rather that the GMAT itself is to be faulted. The drop in the quantity of test takers agrees with the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMACs) presentation of the Integrated Reasoning area to the test in June 2012. Customarily, there is an expansion in testing volume before you change a state administered test as test takers decide on the natural over the new at progress time, a GMAC representative disclosed to Bloomberg Businessweek. A similar example evidently followed updates made to the GRE in 2011 and corrections to the GED in 2002.