Introduction to GMAT

What is the GMAT?

The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) is a standardized, three-part test delivered in English. The test was designed to help admissions officers evaluate how suitable individual applicants are for their graduate business and management programs. It measures basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills that a test taker has developed over a long period of time through education and work.

The GMAT test does not a measure a person’s knowledge of specific fields of study. Graduate business and management programs enroll people from many different undergraduate and work backgrounds, so rather than test your mastery of any particular subject area, the GMAT test will assess your acquired skills. Your GMAT score will give admissions officers a statistically reliable measure of how well you are likely to perform academically in the core curriculum of a graduate business program.

Of course, there are many other qualifications that can help people succeed in business school and in their careers—for instance, job experience, leadership ability, motivation, and interpersonal skills. The GMAT test does not gauge these qualities. That is why your GMAT score is intended to be used as one standard admissions criterion among other, more subjective, criteria, such as admissions essays and interviews.

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Why Take the GMAT® Test?
Your scores will give you a good indication of how well prepared you are to succeed academically in a graduate management program

GMAT® Test Format
The GMAT test consists of four separately timed sections. You start the test with two 30-minute Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) questions.

How Are Scores Calculated?
Your GMAT scores are determined by the number of questions you answer; whether you answer correctly or incorrectly; the level of difficulty and other statistical characteristics of each question
 

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