GMAT

Graduate Management Admission Test widely popular as GMAT is a Computer adaptive test created to find out the reading, verbal, writing, analytical and quantitative skills of a student in English. Though GMAT doesn’t concern about the business knowledge, intelligence or skill of an examinee but it measures the problem-solving ability, critical reasoning skill. The main purpose of GMAT is to make students capable of handling and managing any situation with insufficient data. This test is vital in management success and real-world business.

Established in 1953, currently more than 2100 schools and 5900 study programs have made GMAT a compulsion. This test generally has 4 sections namely Analytical Writing Assessment, Integrated reasoning, Quantitative reasoning and Verbal reasoning. The first section of the test is Analytical Writing Assessment where students are given 30 minutes to analyze and write on the given topic. The main aim of this section is to measure the ability to scrutinize the reason of an argument and write. The second section of test is Integrated Reasoning where students are given 30 minutes to solve 12 questions. This section has four questions types: multi-source reasoning, graphics interpretation, two-part analysis and table analysis. Here students must show their reasoning skills on any given topic or study material. The third section is Quantitative reasoning and her students have 75 minutes time to solve 37 questions. The main purpose of this section is to built up the ability to solve quantitative problems, interpret graphic data and reason quantitatively. To solve this section there must be knowledge of arithmetic, geometry and algebra and calculator is forbidden. Last but not the least; Verbal reasoning is fourth section where students must solve 41 questions in 75 minutes time-frame. Here in this section, students have to show their reading skills, express idea, rectify mistakes and reason and evaluate arguments. Passages on this section are usually taken from trending topics or study materials.

The score of this test ranges from 200 to 800 and graduate schools have their own bench mark on the score to get admission. This 3.5 hours long test can be given multiple times a year considering the availability of the test center and date with exam fee of 250 US dollars. The validity of this test is 5 years and this test is much popular among educational institution around the world. Especially management programs like MBA, Masters in Finance, Masters in Accounting requires this test.

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