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.
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:
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Section
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No.of Questions Duration
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Type of Questions
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Score Range
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Analytical
Writing
Assessment
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1 topic
30 minutes
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Analysis of Argument
|
0-6 (0.5-Point
Increment)
|
|
Integrated
Reasoning
|
12 Questions
30 Minutes
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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
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Reading Comprehension
Critical Reasoning
Sentence Correction
|
6-51 (1 point increment)
|
|
TOTAL
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187 Minutes
3 Hours & 7 Min
|
|
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Candidates are permitted to take optional 2 (two) breaks of 8 minutes each.