GMAT Exam

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a standardized assessment that helps business schools assess the qualifications of applicants for advanced study in business and management. Schools use the test as one predictor of academic performance in an MBA program or other graduate management programs.

What does the GMAT Measure?

The GMAT exam measures basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills that you have developed over a long period in your education and work.

It does NOT measure:

• Your knowledge of the business.

• Your job skills.

• Specific content in your undergraduate or first university coursework.

• Your abilities in any other specific subject area, or

• Subjective qualities such as motivation, creativity, and interpersonal skills.

The purpose of the GMAT is to measure one’s ability to think systematically and to employ the verbal and mathematical skills that one has acquired throughout his/her years of schooling. The test does not aim to measure the knowledge of specific business or academic subjects.

One is assumed to know basic algebra (but not calculus), geometry, and arithmetic, to know the basic conventions of standard written English, and to be able to write an analytical essay.

Format and Timing

The GMAT exam consists of three main parts:

• i) Analytical Writing Assessment

• ii) Integrated Reasoning

• iii) Quantitative section

• iv)Verbal section

Analytical Writing Assessment

• The GMAT exam begins with the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA). The AWA consists of a writing task, Analysis of an Argument. You are allowed 30 minutes to complete the task.

Integrated Reasoning

• The Integrated Reasoning section measures your ability to evaluate information presented in multiple formats from multiple sources – skills you need to succeed in our technologically advanced, data-driven world. This section comprises 12 questions.

• Integrated Reasoning has 12 Questions comprising of Multi-Source Reasoning, Graphics Interpretation, Two-Two Part Analysis, Table Analysis.

Verbal Section

• After a second optional ten-minute break, you begin the Verbal Section of the GMAT exam. This section contains 41 multiple choice questions of three question types: Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction. Y

• ou are allowed a maximum of 75 minutes to complete the entire section.