Ewing, NJ-, April 28, 2009 –

McCann Associates, the leading provider of online assessment tools for higher education, corporate, and certification organizations, and 2009 CODiE Finalist, has licensed Manhattan GMAT to offer its students McCann’s GMAT Write program. The program is designed to help prospective MBA students prepare for the GMAT test, while improving their writing skills.

“We’re honored to partner with an organization as fine as Manhattan GMAT,” said Pam Kirby, Vice President of McCann Associates. “Manhattan GMAT is an innovator in test preparation. Our suite of products, which lead the way in education and assessment, compliment their program perfectly.” We see this as a natural fit into their curriculum.”

GMAT Write includes a host of features to help students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and to help build confidence in their writing skills by identifying and analyzing flaws in essay structure; critiquing essays with relevant supporting reasons and examples that clearly demonstrate how to build stronger, more persuasive arguments; and demonstrating how to use language effectively. This includes explanations of diction, syntax, and conventions of standard written English.

The success of the program stems from the IntelliMetric technology at the core of GMAT Write, which is recognized as one of the most accurate systems of its kind in the standardized testing industry. IntelliMetric uses artificial intelligence to score open-ended and constructed-response questions with documented levels of accuracy and reliability exceeding that of human expert scorers. Vantage’s IntelliMetric consistently applies the pooled knowledge, or scoring rubric, of expert scorers to the essays it evaluates.

ABOUT MANHATTAN GMAT

We believe that the best GMAT curriculum should provide students familiarity with the math, grammar, and analytical principles that the GMAT tests. Accordingly, we strive to re-teach students the 8th and 9th grade math tested on the GMAT as well as the grammar and logic that many students may never have studied.

ABOUT MCCANN ASSOCIATES

McCann Associates has designed and delivered custom-developed high-stakes and diagnostic professional assessments for public and private organizations since 1959, with an emphasis on employment screening and career advancement evaluations for public safety occupations. Private and public institutions alike rely on McCann assessments to make reliable judgments of individuals. For nearly five decades, more than 1 million prospective police officers, firefighters and EMTs can point to a McCann assessment as the starting point to a successful and fulfilling professional career.

Today, McCann Associates has expanded its focus to meaningfully impact the lives and careers of college students, prospective employees and professionals. McCann’s offerings include Measured Success™, with pre-packaged diagnostic assessments for College Readiness and Work Skills covering math, reading, writing, and computer skills; MYAccess!® Professional, an online writing instructional program that immediately evaluates written submissions, provides individualized revision plans, and includes a plethora of online writing tools; Correct English™, a writing improvement and productivity tool for use in everyday business writing that provides grammar and spelling feedback in over a dozen languages, revision tips, models of exemplar business memorandums, letters, proposals, reports and much more; and paper and pencil assessment services including item writing, test creation, printing and shipping, scoring and reporting. Learn more at www.mccanntesting.com.