Friday 14 December 2018

GMAT 2018 Exam-Date, Exam Fee and Pattern


Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a standardized test accepted worldwide by 7100 management courses in various business schools across the world. GMAT Exam is conducted across 600 centers in 114 countries around the world. This a computer adaptive test.  

This is not a computer-based test, it is computer adaptive test, where a candidate is given questions in accordance to the answer he gave for the previous questions, in case he is answering the questions right, the difficulty level of the upcoming questions increases and in case the candidate is giving wrong answers to the questions, the difficulty level decreases. Candidates cannot change the answers once done.



GMAT Dates:

GMAT is open throughout the year. GMAT is conducted by Graduate Management Admission Council. The dates would depend on the centre a candidate chooses. A candidate can appear only 5 times for this examination in a year within a gap of 16 days. The result is declared after almost 3 weeks from the day of examination. The candidate who has scored perfect 800 cannot appear for this examination for the next 5 years.

GMAT FEE:

The examination fee of GMAT is $250 all over the world. In case a candidate wants to reschedule the examination, he would have to pay an additional $50. In case a candidate wants to cancel the examination, they would be charger $80.

GMAT Exam Pattern:

GMAT Examination pattern has remained the same over years. GMAT accesses the ability of a student on 4 criteria.
  •      Verbal reasoning
  •      Quantitative Reasoning
  •         Integrated Reasoning
  •      Analytical Writing Assessment

This examination is of 3 hours and 30 minutes. The total number of questions to be attempted are 80. 36 questions are on Verbal Reasoning, 31 questions are on quantitative reasoning, 12 questions are on integrated reasoning and one question is on Analytical Writing Assessment. This is a national level examination and the average score accepted by universities is between 650-790.

Executive Assessment Exam:

GMAT has introduced a new mini GMAT called Executive Assessment Exam for Executive MBA Course. This exam is just for the students who are willing to pursue E- MBA. The duration of this exam is shorter than normal GMAT.it is formulated only on analytical and logical thinking abilities.