about GMAT

Graduate Management Admission Test:

            The GMAT is required for admission to business school. This computerized test is offered year-round, but only in the last 3 weeks of every calendar month. It tests students on verbal skills, quantitative skills (math) and analytical writing skills.

About the GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test)

The GMAT is only available as a computer adaptive test (CAT) that adapts to your performance as you take the test. The test is no longer available as a paper and pencil exam.

The GMAT Test is a multiple-choice test that most business schools use for admission into their graduate programs.

The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) consists of three main parts, the Analytical Writing Assessment, Quantitative section, and Verbal section.

Analytical Writing Assessment (30 + 30 mins = 1 hour)

The GMAT begins with the Analytical Writing Assessment .The AWA consists of two separate writing tasks. Analysis of an Issue and Analysis of an Argument. Test takers are allowed 30 minutes to complete each essay.

Quantitative Section (37 questions; 75 minutes)

The AWA is followed by an optional five-minute break, hich is followed by the Quantitative section of the GMAT. This section contains 37 multiple-choice questions of two question types

·         Data Sufficiency and

·         Problem Solving.

Test takers are allowed a maximum of 75 minutes to complete the entire section.


Verbal Section(41 questions; 75 minutes)

After a second optional five-minute break, the Verbal Section of the GMAT begins. This section contains 41 multiple-choice questions of three question types

·         Reading Comprehension

·         Critical Reasoning and

·         Sentence Correction.

Test takers are allowed a maximum of 75 minutes to complete the entire section.


GMAT Scoring Pattern

The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) yields four scores

·         Verbal (Scores range from 0 to 60)

·         Quantitative (Scores range from 0 to 60)

·         Total (Scores range from 200 to 800) and

·         Analytical Writing Assessment (Scores range from 0 to 6 in half-point intervals).

Each of these scores is reported on a fixed scale and will appear on the official GMAT score reports that you and your designated score recipients (schools) receive.

Scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section or below 7 and above 50 for the Quantitative section are rare. Both scores are on a fixed scale and can be compared across any GMAT administration. And two-thirds of test takers score between 400 and 600.

Exam Snapshot

No. of Questions	200
Marking Scheme	1
Negative marking	¼
Number of Sections	5
Number of Choices	4
Duration	150 Min

This was the kind of paper where students would have come out feeling pleasantly happy with their performance since NMAT was on expected lines with no deviation in the pattern from what was specified in the bulletin. This exam tested the students more on their ability to pick the easy questions and as such was a test of speed more than that of skill and aptitude. Students with good time management skills would have fared very well in this paper.

After CAT and IIFT, students were mentally prepared for a tough paper. Especially because the Quant section in JMET has always been a very difficult one. However, JMET 2006 turned out to be a not so difficult paper – even as far as Quant is concerned. This would have been a relief to students and they would have been able to attempt enough questions in every section in order to clear the cutoffs. While the overall cutoff would be different for different IITs, the sectional cutoffs are likely to be the same for all the institutes and are therefore should be quite low.

No. of sections : 4
No. of questions : 150
Score: +1 for every right answer and -0.25 for every wrong answer
Total time 120 minutes

Sections	Questions	Total Marks
Verbal Communication	40	40
Quant	40	40
Reasoning	40	40
DI	30	30