The Graduate Management Admission Test is a computer adaptive test intended to ascertain Analytical, Writing, Quantitative, Verbal, and
Reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, such as an MBA.
The GMAT exam consists of four sections:
An Analytical writing assessment, an Integrated reasoning section, a Quantitative section, and a Verbal section. Total testing time is three hours and seven minutes. Test takers have 30 minutes for the analytical writing assessment and another 30 minutes to work through 12 questions, which often have multiple parts, on the integrated reasoning section and are given 65 minutes to work through 31 questions in the quantitative section and another 65 minutes to get through 36 questions in the verbal section.
Integrated reasoning
The integrated reasoning section consists of 12 questions (which often consist of multiple parts themselves) in four different formats: Graphics interpretation, Two-part analysis, Table analysis, and Multi-source reasoning. Integrated reasoning scores range from 1 to 8.
Quantitative section
The Quantitative section of the GMAT consists of two types of quantitative questions: Problem solving and Data Sufficiency, Scores range from 0 to 60
Verbal section
The verbal section of the GMAT exam includes the following question types: reading comprehension, critical reasoning, and sentence correction. Each question type gives five answer options from which to select. Verbal scores range from 0 to 60
