WHAT IS THE GMAT?
About the GMAT:
The Graduate Management Admission Test (often known as the GMAT) is an internationally accepted multiple-choice, computer-based, and computer-adaptive exam that is used for admission to graduate management and business programmes (such as MBA programs).
In order to give business schools standardised measures of applicants’ readiness for graduate-level academic work, the testmaker GMAC created and administers the GMAT. In order to determine if you are prepared for the demands of an MBA programme, business school admissions committees consider your GMAT score in addition to your work experience, academic record, and supporting papers.
What should we remember? A strong GMAT performance is likely to have an immediate, beneficial effect on your business school application.
What is on the GMAT?
The GMAT is primarily a test of your critical thinking abilities, even while it does assess facts and rules, such as language, as well as quantitative topics in arithmetic, algebra, statistics, and geometry. It assesses your capacity for logical thought, problem-solving within time constraints, and the analysis and evaluation of verbal and quantitative information. The secret to getting a high GMAT score is understanding how to effectively reason through and analyse material.
What Are the GMAT Sections?
Although there are four different section types on the GMAT, you will employ the same analytical and critical thinking skills throughout the test as you do in your MBA education.
The GMAT is divided into four scored test portions, each of which is given a separate score. Additionally, the quant and verbal portions are merged to create your overall score.:
Quantitative
Verbal
Integrated Reasoning
Analytical Writing Evaluation
The order in which test portions are taken on the GMAT is up to the test-taker. Just before the test starts, you will decide the sequence of the sections. You will have the option to select one of three orders:
Verbal, Quantitative, Integrated Reasoning, Analytical Writing Assessment,
Verbal, Integrated Reasoning, and Quantitative
Assessment in Verbal, Quantitative, Integrated Reasoning, and Analytical Writing
Since the Quant and Verbal portions are typically the two most crucial sections for your chances of admission, almost half of test-takers choose to start with the Quant section, and roughly one-third choose to start with the Verbal section.
The GMAT’s Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA or Essay) portion receives a separate score from 0 to 6, with each half-point representing one point. Scores for the Integrated Reasoning (IR) portion range from 1 to 8, with each point worth one. Official scaled scores for the Quantitative (Quant) and Verbal parts range from 0 to 60, although in practise only the scores between 6 and 51 are used. Your total score, which ranges from 200 to 800 and is expressed in 10-point increments, is also calculated by adding your verbal and quantitative scores. The score that the majority of business schools are most concerned with is the Total score.
The average total score is between 560 and 570. The average Verbal and Quantitative scores are normally in the upper 20s and low 40s, respectively. Both the mean IR score and the mean essay score often fall between 4 and 5.
