Bangalore: Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT), the gateway to thebusiness schools globally - including Harvard, Kellog and Wharton, will now carry 33% more new questions. There will be 300 new questions in all the five sections of the GMAT paper, the highest being in data sufficiency.
In the new format of GMAT, there is an increased emphasis on pronoun and modifier rules, in the sentence correction section and reduced focus on comparisons and idioms related questions. Graduate Management Admission Council, the global authority to prepare the test papers, also made changes in the reading comprehension section, creating a balance between short and long passages. Instead of two biology passages, there would be one social science passage and one business related passage. While the number of inference questions has increased significantly, general and specific questions would remain the same. In the critical reasoning section, 50 old questions would be substituted with 50 new ones. Moreover, in the problem solving there would be a reduction of 19 questions.
Every year lakhs of students appear in GMAT for admission to over 1900 B-schools across the world including a few management schools in India. As per the records nearly 20000 students take the exam in India itself.
