GMAT test in a nutshell

On the official GMAT website you will find the statement that “your future begins with GMAT”. Many aspiring MBA students around the world seem to agree!

GMAT stands for Graduate Management Admission Test and is an important part of the selection criteria for admission to many graduate management programs, such as an MBA. The candidate’s GMAT score tells business schools exactly where they fell relative to other candidates who took the GMAT. This test is proven to be able to predict a candidate’s success in business school programs quite accurately.

GMAT is a computer adaptive test (CAT), which is administered in standardized and secure testing centers around the world. The candidate can take the test throughout the year, but not more than once a month. It is possible to reschedule or cancel the test.

Business schools use this test as an admission criterion in their MBA, Master of Accounting and Master of Finance programs. It is without a doubt the number one choice for aspiring MBA’s!

GMAT assesses the candidate’s analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal and reading skills in standard written English. It consists of three sections.

The first section is an analytical writing assessment, where a candidate must demonstrate their writing skills, the ability to think critically and communicate their ideas, through the analysis of an argument and a topic. In the quantitative section (i.e. math), a candidate demonstrates their skills in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and problem solving. The verbal section assesses the candidate’s reading comprehension, sentence correction and critical thinking skills.

It is important to note that the candidate’s business knowledge is not self-tested. However, the skills a candidate must demonstrate to perform well on this exam (such as time management, decision-making, performance under pressure, and prioritization) are those that are needed for success, both in a business school and then in a company. world.

The exam lasts approximately three and a half hours.

The level of difficulty of the questions goes up or down depending on whether a certain question is answered correctly or incorrectly. Scores are calculated based on the level of difficulty and the number of questions answered and completed.

Although there are only three sections evaluated on a GMAT, a candidate will get four scores. All sections of the test are scored separately, and then the overall score is given in a range of two hundred to eight hundred. Each of these scores is accompanied by a percentile rank, which highlights what proportion of test takers scored lower than you.

Those who received a percentile rank of 790 or higher (and that’s in the top 10% of test takers) can expect to be admitted to top business schools like Stanford, Wharton, or Sloan.