Skills Required To Crack GMAT

Hii sir, I am Preparing for the GMAT Examination Will you Please tell mw What Skills Are Required to Crack the GMAT Examination ?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

The Graduate Management Admission Test is a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, such as an MBA


Format of Exam


Section Duration in minutes Number of questions
Analytical writing assessment 30 1 essay
Integrated reasoning 30 12
Quantitative 75 37
Verbal 75 41

Preparation Tips :

The GMAT tests students' ability in writing, reading, reasoning and quantitative skills. It tests the students' ability to read a passage and answer questions, identify grammatical errors, check number skills and reasoning skills to solve numerical and word-based problems.

In a new section of the test students will also have to solve problems interpreting data from graphs

The number of concepts that are asked in GMAT questions are finite. Therefore a good method to improve and reduce your ‘white areas’ is to keep a learning diary.


recommend that you take an exponential approach in prep time planning; the closer you get to your test date, the more time you should plan for GMAT preparation

Many test centers offer only laminated drawing boards for calculations and sketches during the test. This can lead to irritation for those not accustomed to using an erasable overhead marker – especially left-handed people,


A good method in dealing with GMAT questions (especially in the verbal section) to which you are not absolutely certain of the answer is ‘educated guessing’. This means to quickly rank the five possible answers in order of their suitability and exclude wrong answers