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Graduate Management Admission Test more popularly known as GMAT is a three and a half hours long computer adaptive test. It is a yardstick to measure a student’s readiness for business and management courses at postgraduate or doctoral level like MBA. The GMAT test is a reliable tool to predict a student’s academic success better than GPA for B-schools admission purpose. The test tends to evaluate one’s Critical Thinking, Analytical Writing Abilities, English Language Skills, and Problem Solving Ability through its Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude sections. The GMAT registration process is flexible; one can enrol in it at any point of time. Since 1953, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is regulating and administering the GMAT and has embarked its reach in more than 120 countries. It is an non-profit organisation located in Reston, Virginia.
Any candidate with a bachelor's degree from a recognized institute is qualified to apply for the exam. There is no minimum or maximum academic qualification limit for the test taker to take GMAT. A major chunk of the examinees is either students in their pre-final or final year of graduation or working professionals.
The exam pattern for GMAT has been revised since April 2018. It still consists of 4 main sections: Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Reasoning, Analytical Writing and Integrated Reasoning. However the duration of the exam has been reduced to 3.5 hours inclusive of the breaks. There is now a reduction in the number of questions in both the Quant and Verbal sections as given below :
The reduction in the questions is only with the non scoring section of the exam (i.e) the research section of the exam. Although there is no particular way to determine which questions are part of the non scoring section and hence it is advised that you treat all sections of the exam in a similar manner. However, the other sections: Analytical Writing Assessment and Integrated Reasoning remain unchanged. GMAC has also issued a statement mentioning that while there is a change in the duration of the exam there will be no significant impact for candidates attempting the exam since the content for the GMAT exam remains unchanged.
The GMAT Exam is a 3 hours 7 minutes online test. It consists of 4 broad sections namely:
|
Sections |
Number of Questions |
|
Analytical Writing |
1 question (01 essay) |
|
Integrated Reasoning |
12 questions |
|
Quantitative |
31 questions |
|
Verbal |
36 questions |
|
Total |
80 questions |
The Graduate Management Admission Test is a computer adaptive test which is utilized as a resource to analyse a candidate’s analytical and quantitative credibility along with language proficiency. It caters to the candidates who are looking to associate with the leading B-Schools of the world, as management graduates (MBA). The acceptability of GMAT scores is way more prevalent than any other aptitude test, in over 2300 colleges and for 7000 programs. The GMAT syllabus can be found as under as per the latest updated exam pattern is split into 4 sections namely:
The results of the GMAT exam are available immediately after completion of the exam. Although this will be just a raw score which comprises of only your Quant and Verbal scores the complete final score report will be sent to you after 20 working days on completing the exam. The final score report will have your scaled scores in Quant and verbal in addition to also displaying your individual scores in Analytical Writing and Integrated Reasoning sections.
A GMAT score of 700 and above will clear the majority of GMAT cut-offs. There are only a handful of business schools in the world that ask for a GMAT score of more than 700. The highest minimum GMAT score requirement is 733. GMAT scores between 600-700 can get the students admission into well-qualifying MBA courses.
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