The Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT)
The GMAT is a computer-adaptive standardized exam that is used by graduate business schools to help evaluate MBA applicants. The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) owns and administers the GMAT. With input provided by graduate business schools, the GMAC designed the GMAT to test essential verbal and quantitative skills that they feel applicants should possess in order to be successful in graduate business programs. There are three components to the GMAT: the Analytical Writing Section, the Quantitative Section, and the Verbal Section.
The GMAT Analytical Writing Section
The analytical writing assessment on the GMAT is used by business schools to assess how well you write. This section of the GMAT is 60 minutes long, consisting of two 30-minute essays: Analysis of an Argument and Analysis of An Issue.
This essay asks you to read and critically respond to an author’s argument. Your goal will be to evaluate the author’s argument using the same critical tools tested in the Critical Reasoning portion of the test. You should consider assumptions behind the argument, evidence neglected in the argument that might strengthen or weaken it, alternatives to the argument, and possible further inferences to be made from it.
This second essay asks you to construct a sound and compelling position in response to a given prompt. What position you take will be less important than how well you develop it. For this essay, there are no incorrect answers, only well- or poorly-made arguments. There is an optional 10 minute break at the end of the analytical writing section.
GMAT Quantitative Problem Solving QuestionsSection
Although you’ve been used to problem solving questions for a long time, the questions on the GMAT are challenging. Arriving at their solutions requires the application of rigorous logical, analytical thinking. In addition, although the math content knowledge necessary to solve these problems is generally taught in high school, most GMAT aspirants have not considered high school math for some time. If you’d like to see some examples of GMAT problem solving questions,
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GMAT Quantitative Problem Solving QuestionsSection
Although you’ve been used to problem solving questions for a long time, the questions on the GMAT are challenging. Arriving at their solutions requires the application of rigorous logical, analytical thinking. In addition, although the math content knowledge necessary to solve these problems is generally taught in high school, most GMAT aspirants have not considered high school math for some time. If you’d like to see some examples of GMAT problem solving questions,
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GMAT Quantitative Data Sufficiency Questions
Data sufficiency questions present you with a question stem followed by two statements of factual information. Your task is then to determine whether the information provided in the statements is sufficient to answer the question presented in the stem. Most GMAT takers have never been exposed to such a problem type before. If you’d like to see some examples of GMAT Data Sufficiency questions,
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The GMAT Verbal Section
The Verbal Section of the GMAT follows the Quantitative Section. You’ll have 75 minutes to answer 41 verbal questions. These questions are designed to test your knowledge of standard written English, your ability to analyze and evaluate an argument, and your ability to read critically and analytically. There are three types of questions on the verbal section of the GMAT: Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning, and Reading Comprehension. If you’d like to see a more complete breakdown of the verbal content that’s tested on the GMAT,
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GMAT Sentence Correction Questions
A GMAT Sentence Correction problem presents you with a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Your task will be to determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence is correctly written. If you decide that it’s not correctly written, you’ll have four choices that propose ways to correct that underlined portion of the sentence. Of course, only one of the answer choices will be correct. If you’d like to see some examples of GMAT Sentence Correction questions,
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GMAT Sentence Correction Questions
A GMAT Sentence Correction problem presents you with a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Your task will be to determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence is correctly written. If you decide that it’s not correctly written, you’ll have four choices that propose ways to correct that underlined portion of the sentence. Of course, only one of the answer choices will be correct. If you’d like to see some examples of GMAT Sentence Correction questions,
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GMAT Reading Comprehension Questions
A GMAT Reading Comprehension problem presents you with a passage (generally from business, social science, biological science, or physical science). You’ll then be asked a series of questions based on the passage. These questions may ask you, among other things, for the main point of the passage, to paraphrase something asserted in the passage, to make an inference implied in the passage, to identify an assumption behind statements made in the passage, or to identify the function of a part of the passage. If you’d like to see some examples of GMAT Reading Comprehension questions,
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