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Updated On Date: Sep 28, 2024

GMAT 2025 Examination Pattern

GMAT 2025 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 2025 Online application forms will be available on the official website.

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GMAT2025 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 2025 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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