GRADUATE MANAGEMENT ADMISSION TEST (GMAT)
The GMAT, or Graduate Management Admission Test, is a
standardized test designed to assess skills relevant to graduate studies
in business and management. GMAT is required to be undertaken by those
students who wish to pursue M.B.A in United States. GMAT measures
language, quantitative and writing skills and is designed to help
predict a student's potential academic performance in the first year of
graduate management school. Since October 1997, the GMAT has been
administered exclusively as a computer adaptive test, or CAT. The GMAT
CAT consists of 150 minutes of multiple-choice testing, plus two
30-minute writing sessions. (Test takers are required to type their
essays using a simple word-processing program.) GMAT is measured on a
maximum of 800 marks.
Duration 10 Weeks
Tuition Fee 10,000/-
Here's how the four sections of the GMAT CAT break down:
Analytical Writing Section
1 essay - 30 minutes
Verbal Section
- Reading comp
- Sentence correction
Critical reasoning
41 questions - 75 minutes
Quantitative Section
- Data sufficiency
- Problem solving
37 questions - 75 minutes
The essay questions are administered first, followed by the multiple-choice sections. The question types within a section appear in random order.
CAT Format
A computer adaptive test (CAT) is very different structurally from a traditional paper and pencil test. On a CAT, the computer will select which questions to administer based on how well you're doing up to that point. If you keep getting questions right, the test will get harder and harder; if you make some mistakes, the computer will adjust and start giving you easier problems. If you answer the easier problems correctly, the computer will give you harder questions again.