Higher education is an integral part of a student’s life and pursuing higher education in abroad countries has become a popular trend.
The Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, is an important part of the business school application process. The GMAT is a multiple-choice, computer-based and computer-adaptive standardized exam that is often required for admission to graduate business programs (MBA) globally.
The GMAT is developed and administered by testmaker GMAC to provide business schools with common measures of applicants’ preparedness for graduate-level academic work. Business school admission committees look at your GMAT score, along with work experience, academic record, and supporting materials, to assess your readiness for the rigors of an MBA program.
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The GMAT exam measures your command of basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, multi-source data analysis, and grammar. More importantly, it measures your ability to analyze and evaluate written material, think critically, and solve problems. The GMAT is first and foremost a test of your critical thinking skills. Knowing how to reason through and analyze information is the key to a great GMAT score.
The GMAT Exam – Focus Edition is comprised of three sections that showcase the specific skills needed to succeed in a graduate management program:
Quantitative Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning
Data Insights
Overview
The GMAT Exam – Focus Edition is 2 hours and 15 minutes long (with one optional 10-minute break) and consists of 64 questions in total:
Quantitative Reasoning: 21 questions, 45 minutes
Verbal Reasoning: 23 questions, 45 minutes
Data Insights: 20 questions, 45 minutes
The GMAT Exam – Focus Edition gives you control of your testing experience with test taker-friendly features and flexible score sending options.
Question Review & Edit
The Question Review & Edit tool gives you more control over the answers to your questions by allowing you to edit responses later in each section. With this tool, you can spend less time on questions you’re unsure about, knowing you can go back to these responses and update them. Here is how it works:
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You can answer the three sections in any order, giving you a more personalized testing experience. You can also take your optional 10-minute break whenever you choose: after the first section, or after the second. This means you can adapt the exam to exactly how you’ve prepared for it, giving you more opportunities to perform at your best. Visit NIEC, One of the Best GMAT Classes in Kathmandu.
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The total test duration is around 3 hours 7 minutes. There are many types of questions in the Analytical Writing Assessment, Quantitative, Verbal and Integrated Reasoning.
45 minutes
The Verbal Reasoning section assesses the test taker’s ability to read, comprehend written passages, and evaluate arguments.
In the Verbal Reasoning section, test takers have 45 minutes to answer 23 questions.“ The questions within this section are primarily of two types: Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension.
45 minutes/21 Questions
The Quant section of the GMAT Focus Edition evaluates your understanding of algebra and arithmetic fundamentals and your ability to apply this knowledge in problem-solving scenarios.
There are two major updates in the Quant Section in GMAT Focus Edition:
1. Geometry questions have been eliminated from the Quant section.
2. Data Sufficiency questions have been removed from the Quant Section and now will be asked in the Data Insights section.
In the Quantitative Reasoning section, test takers have 45 minutes to answer 21 Problem-solving questions”.
Critical Reasoning questions test the skills involved in making and evaluating arguments, as well as formulating a plan of action. You will be presented with a short argument or a series of statements and a question relating to it. Succeeding on Critical Reasoning questions requires understanding the structure of arguments and rigorous logical analysis of the connections between evidence and conclusions.
These questions test your critical reading skills, more specifically, your ability to summarize the main idea, differentiate between ideas stated specifically and those implied by the author, make inferences based on information in a text, analyze the logical structure of a passage, and deduce the author's tone and attitude about a topic. You will be presented with an academic reading passage on a topic related to business, social science, biological science, or physical science and asked 3–4 questions about that text.
The Data Insights section is not an adjunct; it is an integral part of the exam. The inclusion of this section in GMAT Focus reflects the increasing importance of data literacy and analytics in the business world. This section has equal weightage in the total GMAT score.
Data Sufficiency questions assess the ability to determine whether the given data is sufficient to solve a particular problem. Test takers must evaluate the information provided and decide if it is enough to arrive at a definitive answer.
The GMAT Quantitative section is designed to test your content and analytical knowledge of basic math concepts, including arithmetic and number properties, algebra, and geometry. The section consists of two question types:
Data Sufficiency questions consist of a question and two statements of data. Your task is to determine whether the statements provide sufficient data to answer the question. This question type requires you to quickly identify what information you would need to solve the problem and to efficiently eliminate answer choices.
Problem Solving is a classic standardized test question type. You’ll be presented with a question and five possible answer choices. Problem Solving questions use high school–level math up to algebra and plane geometry to test your critical thinking skills.
The GMAT Verbal section is designed to test your command of standard written English, your skill in analyzing arguments, and your ability to read critically. You will see three question types in this section:
Critical Reasoning questions test the skills involved in making and evaluating arguments, as well as formulating a plan of action. You will be presented with a short argument or a series of statements and a question relating to it. Succeeding on Critical Reasoning questions requires understanding the structure of arguments and rigorous logical analysis of the connections between evidence and conclusions.
The Question types here are:
You will be asked, of the five option choices provides which positively impacts the conclusion
AHTL CEO: “If the Marketing Manager of Apogee Inc., a clothing company, can be attracted to work for Arkansas Heavy Tools Limited, we will improve our market position greatly and increase our profits notably.
Which of the following is an assumption made in the passage above?
The exact opposite of the previous question type.
Installing CCTV cameras in every corner of ‘ShopWell’ Supermarket will decrease the incident of shoplifting. In addition, the number of security guards should be increased from 12 to 18. This will ensure that shoplifting decreases significantly and consequently, our profits increase.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
An inference is a mini- conclusion , something that is not explicitly/clearly mentioned in the argument but, can be derived from the evidences provided.
Rural households have more purchasing power than do urban or suburban households at the same income level, since some of the income urban and suburban households use for food and shelter can be used by rural households for other needs.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the statement made above?
All three types of households spend more of their income on food and housing than on all other purchases combined
There will be evidences, claims and a portion will be left blank. Our job is to choose an option that logically fills the blank.
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
When a project is failing and should be terminated, plan to bring in a new manager. New managers are more likely to terminate the project than are the original managers because______
Here one or more sentences will be in bold and the question will ask us to identify the purpose that those sentences serve in the provided argument.
The survival of the publishing industry depends upon the existence of a public who will buy the printed word in the form of newspapers, books and magazines. Over the past several years, however, the advance of electronic media, particularly CD-ROMs, online computer services, and the Internet, has made information available to the public electronically without the need for printed materials. As the availability of electronic media increases and as it is more easily accessible, the public has less need for printed materials. So the publishing industry is threatened by the advance of the computer information age.
The two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
These questions test your critical reading skills, more specifically, your ability to summarize the main idea, differentiate between ideas stated specifically and those implied by the author, make inferences based on information in a text, analyze the logical structure of a passage, and deduce the author’s tone and attitude about a topic. You will be presented with an academic reading passage on a topic related to business, social science, biological science, or physical science and asked 3–4 questions about that text.
The question types in this section are:
Main idea questions ask you to identify the main idea or the primary purpose behind the passage that is given.
Example questions are:
In this passage, the author is primarily concerned with…?
Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the given argument?
Considered as a tricky question by many students, tone of the author questions ask you identify the tone of the author, or the passage. Examples include:
The author’s attitude towards contemporary cinema can be best described as…?
The passage regards the idea of modern artistic activity with…?
These are the questions that ask you to spot information that is specifically included as a fact or truth.
Specific fact questions will often be consequential in nature. They usually look like this:
The author refers to ‘example phrase’ in line 5, primarily in order to… ?
According to the passage, the critics considered the ideas found in the novelist’s work to be… ?
Implied questions ask you, as a reader, to identify an idea which is suggested or implied, either directly or indirectly. For example, an implied question looks like this:
It can be inferred from the passage that, in evaluating the scientist’s theory, some of the critics were….?
The passage suggests that if the predictions of the geological department were to be true, it would be….?
Structural questions, as the name suggests, ask you to identify the technique, or the writing style adopted by the author, in presenting facts or views. For example:
Which of the following best describes the structure of the passage?
Which of the following best describes the organization of the lines 17 through 23?
Widely regarded as the most twisted of all Reading Comprehension questions, extrapolation questions require you to extrapolate or compare the author’s ideas to other situations, including situations that are analogous. In order to answer this type of questions, you must go beyond what is stated in the passage, draw an inference from the passage, and then match it with the situations given in the answer choices. Example questions are:
Which of the following situations is most closely analogous to the situation described by the author as an irony, in lines 11 and 12?
Which of the following describes a situation that is analogous to the situation described in the second paragraph?
These are the questions that ask you which of the given answer choices is not true according to the author or the passage, or which of the answer choices with which the author of the passage would not agree. Examples are:
The passage states all of the following about mitochondria, except?
The author asserts that technology has led us do all of the following miraculous experiments, except?
These are the questions that test your ability to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word, based on context within the passage. For example:
As it is used in the passage, the term ‘convivial’ can be best described as?
The term ‘inchoate’, used by the author in line 18, refers to?
The GMAT is a Computer-Adaptive Test, or CAT. On the GMAT, the CAT actually adapts to your performance as you’re taking the test.
When you begin the GMAT, the computer assumes you have an average score and gives you a question of medium difficulty. As you answer questions correctly, the computer serves up more difficult questions and increases its estimate of your ability. And vice versa, as you answer incorrectly, the computer serves up easier questions and decreases its estimate of your ability. Your score is determined by an algorithm that calculates your ability level based not only on what you got right or wrong but also on the difficulty level of the questions you answered.
GMAC’s algorithm that determines your 200 to 800 score is often misunderstood, and there are many myths surrounding “cracking” the algorithm. The best way to “beat” the algorithm is to be prepared. However, because the adaptive nature of the test doesn’t allow for “skipping” questions, you will need to pace yourself and strike a balance between spending valuable time answering difficult questions correctly and possibly running out of time before you finished the test. There are significant penalties for leaving questions unanswered at the end of the exam.
For the Analytical Writing Assessment, your essay receives a score from one human reader and a computerized program, using a holistic 6-point scale. The Integrated Reasoning section is not adaptive, but as with the Quantitative and Verbal sections, you cannot leave questions unanswered or return to previous questions. The IR section is scored on a 1 to 8 scale.
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When considering your GMAT score goal, it’s always a good idea to look at the mean or average GMAT score of admitted applicants to the MBA programs you’re considering applying to. This will give you a good baseline
The Quantitative and Verbal sections of the GMAT are each scored from 0 to 60, with the mean score for Quantitative at 39 and the mean score for Verbal at 27. The score business schools and MBA programs pay the most attention to is the combined 200–800 score scale, where the mean score is 552.
You can use the tables below to see the relationship between scaled scores and the test-takers achieving them:
| Percentile | Total GMAT Score* |
| Top 10% of all test takers | 710 |
| Top 25% of all test takers | 650 |
| Top 50% of all test takers | 580 |
| Below 50th percentile of all test takers | 570 |
* Based on the performance of GMAT test takers between 2013 and 2015
Students admitted to the most competitive MBA programs have average scores in the 710 range, putting them in the 90th percentile or higher. If you’re considering applying to one of these programs, you’ll need to target 710 or higher on the GMAT to be a strong applicant.
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If you are seeking to get into a business school to earn your graduate degree (MBA), the GMAT test helps you stand out as it a proven predictor of your ability to succeed in the program of your choice.
The GMAT test measures your critical reasoning and thinking skills, which are the two most relevant skills that matter most in the business. With four sections in the GMAT, it is an assessment of Analytical Writing, Integrated Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Verbal Reasoning.
The total GMAT test time will be about 3 and a half hours, including two optional breaks. The Analytical Writing Assessment lasts for 30 minutes with one question, the Integrated Reasoning lasts for 30 minutes with 12 questions, the Quantitative Reasoning lasts for 62 minutes with 31 questions, and the Verbal Reasoning lasts for 65 minutes with 36 questions.
It costs $250 to take the GMAT exam, and the fee also includes sending score reports to up to five programs of your choice.
You can easily check for the available test dates and locations and book your test online through the official website for GMAT. We are more than happy to help you register and book your real test dates.
You can easily cancel or reschedule your test date. In order to reschedule your test date, you will be required to pay a reschedule fee of $50 if you do so more than 60 days before your appointment. However, you will be required to pay higher reschedule fees if you reschedule late. You will be entitled to a refund of $100 if you cancel your appointment more than 60 days before your appointment. However, you will be refunded only partially depending on how long you take to cancel.
The test dates are available over 50 times in a year and are given on predetermined dates at various locations and authorized test centers.
Before the test, your test fee includes up to 4 free official TOEFL score reports that can be sent to recipients, including universities and institutions that you select before you take the test through your ETS account. However, it will cost you an additional $20 per institution or agency if you order score reports after the test.
It is possible to cancel or even reschedule your test dates through your ETS account; however, you have to do it up to four full days before your test date without including the day of the test, and it will cost you $60 to reschedule your test date. You will receive a refund of 50% of the original test fee you have paid only if you canceled your registration prior to the four days deadline.
You should bring your valid, government-issued identification that clearly states your name as you provided when you made your test appointment.
The preparation time for your GMAT exam will entirely depend on you; however, it is reported that successful business school candidates start preparing at least 3-6 months before taking the real test.
It is important that you decide which programs you want to receive your GMAT scores before your test day. Prior to starting the GMAT Exam, on the test day, you will select up to five schools/ programs to receive your Official Score Report, which will be sent within 20 calendar days of your test without any cost. You will be required to pay an additional fee to send an additional score report following the selections you made on the test day.
Upon the completion of your GMAT exam, you will be shown an unofficial GMAT score reports- Verbal, Quantitative, Integrated Reasoning, and Total. The Analytical Writing Assessment scores will not be included on the test day; however, will be included on the official score report delivered within 20 days. You will have a time of two minutes to decide whether to accept or cancel your scores. If you choose to cancel your scores, you will not receive a hard copy of your unofficial scores at the test center; you will not be able to access your official score report, and your scores will not be sent to any of the schools you listed.
The validity of your GMAT scores is five years.
It is absolutely possible to retake the GMAT exam up to 5 times in a calendar year and up to 8 times in a lifetime. However, it is important that you wait for 16 days before retaking the GMAT exam.
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