GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test)

GMAT 2024 Examination Pattern

GMAT 2024 Examination Pattern

GMAT 2024 is an all-India level entrance exam conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Cell (GMAC) throughout the year for selecting students into business management PG programs every year. The GMAT Exam is a prerequisite for admission in various management programmes colleges across India offer. GMAT 2024 Online application forms will be available on the official website.

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GMAT2024 Exam Pattern

GMAT is a computer-based adaptive test with a duration of 3 hours and 7 minutes and the candidates are allowed to take two optional breaks of 8 minutes each.

What is a computer-based adaptive Test?

  • This type of system of exam allows to assessment the potential of the candidate with high precision and all the B Schools accept the scores of GMAT. The level of first question in the Verbal or Quantitative Sections will be of medium difficulty.
  • As the candidate starts answering the questions, depending on the responses, the computer automatically allots next questions, either harder or easy questions, as explained in the following two scenarios:
    • In the first scenario, if the candidate answers the first question correctly, the second question allotted by the computer shall be harder.
    • In the second scenario, if the candidate answers the first question wrongly, the second question allotted by the computer shall be less difficult.
  • Candidates must note that they will not be able to skip, return or alter their answers as the computer uses the responses to each question to select the next one depending on the right answer or wrong answer.

GMAT 2024 exam consists of 4 (four) Sections.  They are:

  • Analytical Writing Assessment
  • Integrated Reasoning
  • Quantitative Reasoning
  • Verbal Reasoning

Candidates can choose the order they wish to take the four sections, in accordance with their strengths and weaknesses.

The following Table depicts the details of duration, no.of questions, type of questions and score range for each Section:

Section

No.of Questions Duration

Type of Questions

Score Range

Analytical

Writing

Assessment

1 topic

30 minutes

Analysis of Argument

0-6 (0.5-Point

Increment)

Integrated

Reasoning

12 Questions

30 Minutes

Multi-Source reasoning

Graphics interpretation

Two-point Analysis

Table Analysis

1-8 (1 Point increment)

Quantitative

Reasoning

31 Questions

62 minutes

Data Sufficiency

Problem-Solving

6-51 (1 point increment)

Verbal

Reasoning

36 Questions

65 minutes

Reading Comprehension

Critical Reasoning

Sentence Correction

6-51 (1 point increment)

TOTAL

187 Minutes
3 Hours & 7 Min

 

 

Candidates are permitted to take optional 2 (two) breaks of 8 minutes each.

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