GMAT Exam

Hello sir, I am GArvit Sharma. I am from Mumbai. I want you to help me by providing me some information about the GMAT exam. can you give me some details about its exam pattern and scoring details?

[Raman Vij]

Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a type of computer adaptive test.

It was started in the year 1953.
Its purpose is for Admissions in graduate management programs of business schools.

The GMAT exam consists of 4 sections:
An analytical writing assessment,
Integrated reasoning,
The quantitative section,
The verbal section

Total testing time is three and a half hours, but test takers should plan for a total time of approximately four hours, with breaks.

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 75 minutes to work through 37 questions in the quantitative section and another 75 minutes to get through 41 questions in the verbal section.

Section Duration in minutes Number of questions
Analytical writing assessment 30 N/A
Integrated reasoning 30 12
Quantitative 75 37
Verbal 75 41

The total GMAT score ranges from 200 to 800 and measures performance on the quantitative and verbal sections together (performance on the AWA and IR sections do not count toward the total score, those sections are scored separately).

Scores are given in increments of 10 (e.g. 540, 550, 560, 570, etc.). From the most recent data released by GMAC, the average GMAT score of all test takers is about 540.