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Contents1.0 What Is the GMAT Exam?1.0 What Is the GMAT Exam?1.1 Why Take the GMAT Exam?1.2 GMAT Exam Format1.3 What Is the Content of the Exam Like?1.4 Quantitative Section1.5 Verbal Section1.6 What Computer Skills Will I Need?1.7 What Are the Test Centers Like?1.8 How Are Scores Calculated?1.9 Analytical Writing Assessment Scores1.10 Test Development Process2.0 How to Prepare2.0 How to Prepare2.1 How Can I Best Prepare to Take the Test?2.2 What About Practice Tests?2.3 Where Can I Get Additional Practice?2.4 General Test-Taking Suggestions3.0 Reading Comprehension3.0 Reading Comprehension3.1 What Is Measured3.2 Test-Taking Strategies3.3 The Directions3.4 Sample Questions3.5 Answer Key3.6 Answer Explanations4.0 Critical Reasoning4.0 Critical Reasoning4.1 What Is Measured4.2 Test-Taking Strategies

4.3 The Directions4.4 Sample Questions4.5 Answer Key4.6 Answer Explanations5.0 Sentence Correction5.0 Sentence Correction5.1 Basic English Grammar Rules5.2 Study Suggestions5.3 What Is Measured5.4 Test-Taking Strategies5.5 The Directions5.6 Sample Questions5.7 Answer Key5.8 Answer ExplanationsAppendix A Answer SheetsReading Comprehension Answer SheetCritical Reasoning Answer SheetSentence Correction Answer SheetAdvertOnline Question Bank InformationEULA

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1.0 What Is the GMAT Exam?

1.0 What Is the GMAT Exam?The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT ) is a standardized,three-part test delivered in English. The test was designed to help admissionsofficers evaluate how suitable individual applicants are for their graduatebusiness and management programs. It measures basic verbal, mathematical,and analytical writing skills that a test-taker has developed over a long periodof time through education and work.The GMAT exam does not measure a person’s knowledge of specific fields ofstudy. Graduate business and management programs enroll people frommany different undergraduate and work backgrounds, so rather than testyour mastery of any particular subject area, the GMAT exam will assess youracquired skills. Your GMAT score will give admissions officers a statisticallyreliable measure of how well you are likely to perform academically in thecore curriculum of a graduate business program.Of course, there are many other qualifications that can help people succeedin business school and in their careers—for instance, job experience,leadership ability, motivation, and interpersonal skills. The GMAT exam doesnot gauge these qualities. That is why your GMAT score is intended to beused as one standard admissions criterion among other, more subjective,criteria, such as admissions essays and interviews.

1.1 Why Take the GMAT Exam?GMAT scores are used by admissions officers in over 6,000 graduatebusiness and management programs worldwide. Schools that requireprospective students to submit GMAT scores in the application process aregenerally interested in admitting the best-qualified applicants for theirprograms, which means that you may find a more beneficial learningenvironment at schools that require GMAT scores as part of your application.Because the GMAT exam gauges skills that are important to successful studyof business and management at the graduate level, your scores will give you agood indication of how prepared you are to succeed academically in agraduate management program; how well you do on the test may also helpyou choose the business schools to which you apply. Furthermore, thepercentile table you receive with your scores will tell you how yourperformance on the test compares to the performance of other test takers,giving you one way to gauge your competition for admission to businessschool.Myth -vs- FACTM – If I don’t score in the 90th percentile, I won’t get into any schoolI choose.F – Very few people get very high scores.Fewer than 50 of the more than 200,000 people taking the GMAT exameach year get a perfect score of 800. Thus, while you may beexceptionally capable, the odds are against your achieving a perfect score.Also, the GMAT exam is just one piece of your application packet.Admissions officers use GMAT scores in conjunction with undergraduaterecords, application essays, interviews, letters of recommendation, andother information when deciding whom to accept into their programs.Schools consider many different aspects of an application before making anadmissions decision, so even if you score well on the GMAT exam, youshould contact the schools that interest you to learn more about them and toask about how they use GMAT scores and other admissions criteria (such asyour undergraduate grades, essays, and letters of recommendation) toevaluate candidates for admission. School admissions offices, web sites, andmaterials published by schools are the key sources of information when you

are doing research about where you might want to go to business school.For more information on the GMAT, test preparation materials, examregistration, how to use and send your GMAT scores to schools, and applyingto business school, visit mba.com.

1.2 GMAT Exam FormatThe GMAT exam consists of four separately timed sections (see the table onthe next page). The test starts with one Analytical Writing Assessment(AWA) essay prompt, and you will have 30 minutes to type your essay on acomputer keyboard. The AWA is followed immediately by the 30-minuteIntegrated Reasoning section, which features 12 question prompts in fourdifferent question formats. The test ends with two 75-minute, multiplechoice sections: the Quantitative section, with 37 questions, and the Verbalsection, with 41.The GMAT is a computer-adaptive test (CAT), which means that in themultiple-choice sections of the test, the computer constantly gauges how wellyou are doing on the test and presents you with questions that areappropriate to your ability level. These questions are drawn from a huge poolof possible test questions. So, although we talk about the GMAT as one test,the GMAT exam you take may be completely different from the test of theperson sitting next to you.Here’s how it works. At the start of each GMAT multiple-choice section(Verbal and Quantitative), you will be presented with a question of moderatedifficulty. The computer uses your response to that first question todetermine which question to present next. If you respond correctly, the testusually will give you questions of increasing difficulty. If you respondincorrectly, the next question you see usually will be easier than the one youanswered incorrectly. As you continue to respond to the questions presented,the computer will narrow your score to the number that best characterizesyour ability. When you complete each section, the computer will have anaccurate assessment of your ability.