The prestigious Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is the key to the world’s best key schools. But now, while you prepare yourself in analytical writing, quantitative and verbal, it’s time you start honing your visual interpretation, too. Come June 2012, GMAT will have a new addition designed to measure your ability to evaluate information from multiple sources. This new format of GMAT is called NextGen GMAT.
The new section, named Integrated Reasoning, will have four basic formats. Graphic interpretation will be a multiple-choice question based on images. Multiple-source reasoning will have questions from the same data. Table analysis will be based on tables which can be sorted in various ways. Also, for the first time, GMAT will provide candidates an on-screen calculator. This will be only for the fourth format called two-part analysis. The new section will be for 30 minutes and consist of 12 questions. However, the time for the exam will remain the same (3 hours, 30 minutes) and so will the total scores. The new section will be incorporated by dropping an essay from the analytical writing assessment. So far, students had to write an essay and analyse an argument. The latter has been retained. The length of the two other sections – verbal and quantitative sections – stays as it is. The format is as follows:
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