GMAT Exam Pattern
17 February 2010
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GMAT stands for Graduate Management Admission Test. It is the key to get admission in top business school. It is a computer adaptive test & is no longer a paper & pencil exam.
By cracking this exam, one can get admission in US, Canadian & European Business school MBA programs. Also through this, one can get admission in business PhD programs in universities like Harvard Business school DBA program.
GMAT Exam Pattern : The GMAT exam is of 3 1/2 hrs. There are 3 parts which are as follows-
- Analytical Writing Assessment : The candidate is given 2 writing tasks. They have to complete it in 1 hr. i.e. 30 mins for each essay. The task are analysis of an issue & analysis of an argument.
- Quantitative Section : First there is a break after the first part. Then the candidates are given 37 multiple choice questions which they have to answer in 75 mins. The questions are based on data sufficiency & problem solving.
- Verbal section : Again candidates are given a optional 5 mins break. Then they have to answer 41 multiple choice questions in 5 mins. The questions will be based on reading comprehension, critical reasoning, & sentence correction.
GMAT Scoring Pattern : There is 4 score -
For Analytical Writing Assessment, score range from 0 to 6
For Quantitative section, score range from 0 to 60
For Verbal section, score range from 0 to 60
Total score range from 200 to 800
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[...] GMAT Exam Pattern : This is now not a pen- pencil test. It is a computer adaptive test. The duration of this test is 3 1/2 hrs. Questions are divided into 3 parts. These are – a. Analytical Writing Assessment : In this, you have to write 2 essays in 1 hour. b. Quantitative Section : There are 37 MCQs under this section on data sufficiency & problem solving. You have to solve them in 75 minutes. c. Verbal Section : In this there are 41 multiple choice questions which have to be solved in 75 minutes. The questions are on sentence correction, critical reasoning & reading comprehension. [...]