KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 (Bernama) -- The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a global association representing leading business schools, announced registration for the GMAT Focus Edition, an updated version of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) exam, will open on Aug 29 for testing in the fourth quarter this year.
The GMAT, the most widely used business school admissions exam in the past seven decades, was redesigned with improved test taking experience and flexible new features to better support candidates of graduate business education. Schools will benefit from it as an improved element in their holistic admissions process.
“We want to encourage people with a broad set of qualifications, undergraduate backgrounds and lived experiences to understand the richness of their choice and take that leap forward on their business school journey.
“It is our belief that GMAT Focus Edition will allow candidates to optimise their preparation for graduate business education while helping schools attract a global pool of qualified and diverse applicants,” said GMAC Chief Executive Officer, Joy Jones in a statement.
The edition will feature three 45-minute sections, namely Quantitative Reasoning, which examines problem solving skills; Verbal Reasoning, which evaluates critical reasoning and reading comprehension but no longer incorporates sentence correction; and the newly developed Data Insights section, which measures candidates’ data literacy skills and ability to analyse and interpret data and apply it to real-world business scenarios.
With these changes and the removal of the Analytical Writing Assessment, it is nearly one hour shorter than the current version of the GMAT and therefore requires less content to prepare.
Besides new features that allow test takers to bookmark as many questions as they want, review questions within the remaining section time and change up to three answers per section, and to complete the three sections in any order, the enhanced Official Score Report now offers detailed performance insights that helps them assess strengths and identify focus areas at no additional cost.
As GMAT Focus Edition rolls out for the remainder of 2023, the current version of the GMAT exam will continue to be available to candidates until early next year to facilitate their in-progress preparation and applications for business school, and fees will remain the same as the current GMAT exam.
More information available at www.gmac.com.
-- BERNAMA
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