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The GMAT™ Focus Edition prepares you for graduate business school and beyond by covering content in its three sections relevant to current business challenges and opportunities. Exam Duration The exam is only 2 hours, 15 minutes, with only 3 sections, 64 questions, and no writing assessment. Each section is 45 minutes long. What does the…
Built for Ambition. Focused on You. Yes, that’s the title GMAC has picked to market the new version of the exam. They argue that you can “accelerate your future with the graduate business exam that’s more efficient, more flexible, and provides greater insights to best help you achieve your career ambition.” These are very interesting…
During the past five testing years, over 1 million GMAT exams have been taken, globally, by individuals interested in pursuing graduate management education. The GMAT exam is an important part of the admissions process for more than 7,300 graduate management programs worldwide. A total of 156,453 GMAT exams were taken by prospective business school students…
A lot of our students were afraid of the GMAT Online exam. They thought it would be more challenging. However, data released by GMAC shows that people have achieved higher scores in the Online exam than in the regular one. Here is the information on the report. More than 1.1 million GMAT exams have been…
A lot of my students have been asking me where they can find the right whiteboard and marker for the GMAT Online. Before giving you a recommendation, make sure you read all the requirements posted on the official website: https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat-online/prepare-for-your-exam/whiteboard-options: Whiteboard Requirements: 1 erasable whiteboard no larger than 12 inches x 20 inches (30 centimetres x 50…
The Profile of GMAT Testing: Residence provides schools with a five-year demographic snapshot of the prospective applicant pool for graduate management programs around the world, based on candidates’ region and country of residence. December 2019 Download Overview This report is one of three profile publications detailing five years of GMAT test-taking data for testing years…
Ever since the GMAT Online version of the exam was lauched, there have been some “challenges” that we have fought against from day 1. The first challenge was the prohibition of paper or a physical whiteboard to take notes during the exam. You had to make do with an uncomfortable online whiteboard (a horrible experience!)…
They finally heard us! Starting this June 11, 2020, you will have the opportunity to choose to use a physical whiteboard, online whiteboard or both for scratch work and note taking. Whiteboard Requirements: 1 erasable whiteboard no larger than 12 inches x 20 inches (30 centimeters x 43 centimeters) 1 dry erase marker 1 dry…
Hello GMATers! As we predicted, registration for the Online GMAT is finally availabe (see all the details about it here). This video summarizes what you need to know: These are the 10 main things that you need to know about this exam: Appointment dates are available beginning April 20, 2020, until June 15, 2020 (registration…
We offer 3 hours of GMAT seminars every Saturday. These seminars include a revision of weekly homework assignments, including the theory and strategies to solve easy, medium, and hard GMAT questions. We work exclusively with official GMAT material, retired questions from past exams. These questions are identical in structure and content to those you will…
Inference questions require you to select an answer choice that is supported by the information presented in the stimulus. The correct answer choice can be a paraphrase of part of the stimulus, a combination of facts, or a logical/mathematical consequence of one or more parts of the stimulus. The test-makers will try to entice you…
If you want to achieve a 700+, as a general rule, you need a scale score of at least a 38 (85th percentile) in Verbal and a 48 (67th percentile) in Quant. Remember that the scale scores in the GMAT go from 6 to 51, and they are not related with the number of questions…
What are Idioms? Idioms are phrases that are considered correct according to standard English. Many idiomatic structures have passed from generation to generation without significant changes, so they don’t always follow the grammatical rules we’ve been discussing. If you are a native English speaker, idioms are probably not much of an issue. Native speakers learn…
In this short video, we will summarize one of the most common Idiomatic structures in the GMAT: Not Only X But Also Y. Pay close attention:
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A downward trend. The number of test takers worldwide has been decreasing. GMAT Testing Trends in Peru – Summary Peruvian residents sat for 708 GMAT exams. The mean age of Peruvian test takers was 28.8. The mean GMAT Total score was 566. The trend is clear: the number of Peruvians sitting for the test has…
By Clipper Ledgard When we are presented with the split “if” or “whether”, we should use “whether” unless it introduces a conditional clause: I will not run if I am tired. Conditional => Correct I do not know if I can believe you. Not conditional => Incorrect If the clause is not a conditional, “whether”…
By Clipper Ledgard In the GMAT, Sentence correction tests the usage of expressions that are frequently incorrect according to GMAT standards. One of these expressions is “due to”. Many people use the expression “due to” as a synonym of “because of”. However, “due to” is an adjective phrase, meaning “caused by”; therefore, it should only…
Peruvian Demographics The following data was collected from business school candidates taking the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) in the five-year period of testing year (TY) 2013 to 2017. The GMAT® Geographic Trend Report 2018 is a product of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). For more information, download the full report: https://www.gmac.com/-/media/files/gmac/research/gmat-test-taker-data/gmat-geographic-trend-report-2018.pdf
By Gustavo Luyo Guessing in order to find the answer to a question does not sound especially appealing if the question is one about mathematics in an international examination, let alone the GMAT quantitative section. However, ballparking, or estimating an answer in an educated manner when solving the multiple-choice question format in the GMAT quantitative…
You should know by now that the GMAT exam is shorter: you have 62 minutes to answer 31 Quantitative questions, (it used to be 37 questions in 75 minutes), and 65 minutes to answer 36 Verbal questions (it used to be 41 questions in 75 minutes). What does all this mean? Is the exam more…
The following article was copied from the official GMAT website. Beginning April 16, 2018, the GMAT exam will be shortened by 30 minutes to a 3.5-hour exam, including the breaks and test instructions. This includes a 23-minute reduction in the exam sections, as well as additional time and content reduction across several non-exam screens at…
By Clipper Ledgard Critical Reasoning questions in the GMAT are well thought and, in many cases, challenging. Nevertheless, eliminating wrong answers may not be as difficult as it seems if we use the right approach. While the questions are cleverly created, the explanations in the official guide can be confusing and could clearly be improved.…
Globally, more than 1.2 million Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exams have been taken over the past five years by individuals interested in pursuing graduate management education. The GMAT exam is an important part of the admissions process for more than 6,900 graduate management programs worldwide. A total of 250,884 GMAT exams were taken by…
By Clipper Ledgard For most GMAT test takers, Reading Comprehension questions are a pain in the… head: passages are long and obscure and can be really boring. There are about 14 – give or take 2 – Reading Comprehension questions, and they must be answered in order to obtain a high score. Here are some…
By Clipper Ledgard Because the GMAT is a standard exam, it must use the same testing criteria with everyone. Therefore, the questions must be similar for all candidates. In order to be fair, the tester uses similar patterns to test specific points. Patterns can be found in the verbal section as well as in the…
Nearly 1.3 million Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exams have been taken over the past five years by individuals interested in pursuing graduate management education. The GMAT exam is an important part of the admissions process for more than 6,100 graduate management programs worldwide, and a total of 261,248 GMAT exams were taken by prospective…
Average GMAT Score Increase Compared with Prior Testing Attempt. What happens if you do not achieve your potential in your first GMAT exam? Should you take it again? We believe you should, and we will support our claim with some interesting research results. The following analysis is based on 68,750 second time, 13,582 third time, 3,262 fourth time, 936 fifth time, 291…
Globally, nearly 1.3 million Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exams have been taken over the past five years by individuals interested in pursuing graduate management education. The GMAT exam is an important part of the admissions process for more than 6,100 graduate management programs worldwide. A total of 247,432 GMAT exams were taken by prospective…
By Lawrence M. Rudner Rather than using the computer as an electronic page turner, the GMAT exam uses the computer’s processing power to analyze each examinee’s responses during the test session. By having the computer calculate a final score estimate after each question and using that estimate to select subsequent questions, GMAC is able to…
By Clipper Ledgard Most critical reasoning questions in the GMAT deal with arguments, a series of statements that lead to a conclusion. We use arguments to prove or rebut a claim; we want to persuade others that a statement, a plan, or a proposal is reasonable; we may also want to argue that a statement,…
By GMAT Dudes What’s the best strategy to solve a GMAT Critical Reasoning question? In this brief article, I will highlight the most efficient method to solve a difficult question. First, try to solve the following question(you have 2 minutes): Zimbarb University once had one of the most beautiful campuses around. Recently, however, our campus is often…
