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15 Minute Guide To The GMAT
15 Minute Guide To The GMAT
15 Minute Guide To The GMAT
WHY GMAT?
GMAT TEST
STRUCTURE
GMAT 3- STEP
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OURINSTRUCTORS
Arun Jagannat han Verbal Faculty
Over the past 11+ years, Arun has coached and mentored over 4000
students, teaching at major test prep institutions in India. He has
personally designed the CrackVerbal GMAT curriculum from the ground up
to include every feature he saw as missing in traditional courses and has
also devised all-new techniques to help out students. He is an active and
well-respected presence on popular online GMAT forums such as
Pagalguy.com, beatthegmat.com and gmatclub.com.
Al Ameen
Verbal Faculty
Al-Ameen is an alumnus of ISB Hyderabad. He is a digital marketing
enthusiast who has worked with a lot of top brands in helping them
re-target their audience. Al-Ameen is a rapper, karaoke artist. and an
emcee who has been featured in the Economic Times. He believes that
learning is an experience and presenting is a stand up act - his goal is
to do justice to both.
Shrikant Singh
Verbal Faculty
Shrikant is an alumnus of ISB Hyderabad and IIT Kharagpur. He had
4+ years of experience in Analytics before his MBA and is currently
working with Amazon as a Planning Manager. He loves teaching and
interacting with students as he believes this keeps him on his toes.
Mohammed Junaid
Quant Faculty
Junaid is the quintessential quants guy; a person who solves GMAT and GRE
quant questions as part of his day-job, and solves puzzles and problems in
his free time for fun. He has an M.Sc. in Mathematics, and 5 years of
experience in training students across Test Prep courses for the GMAT, GRE,
SAT, etc. When he?s not living and breathing Math, Junaid enjoys playing
volleyball and cricket.
Quant Faculty
Aritro has 8+ years of experience in business technology consulting. An
alumnus of Jadavpur and Indian School of Business, he is currently a senior
technology advisory consultant at Cognizant. He worships Steve Jobs, Jeff
Bezos, and Jan Koum.
The GMAT is given in English, and consists of the following four separately timed
sections:
1. AWA - Analytical Writing Section
2. Integrated Reasoning Section
3. Quantitative Section
4. Verbal Section
1. ANALYTICALWRITING(AWA)
- In this section, you will be asked to analyse an argument for its soundness.
- Do not worry too much about this section. You are graded on a score between 0
and 6, and this doesn?t go into calculating your final 3-digit GMAT score.
- Most schools don?t bother about what you write ? so long as you are able to
manage a decent score of 4.0 or above.
- The only thing you need to practice is writing the AWA essays as fast and as
effectively as possible. The last thing you want to do is get flustered and
expend your mental energy before the ?real? test starts.
2. INTEGRATED REASONINGSECTION
- This is the section where Indians usually feel confident ? but do not make the
mistake of feeling complacent. The questions are of 2 types: Problem Solving
& Data Sufficiency
4. VERBALSECTION
Roughly 1/ 3rd of all questions you will solve on the GMAT (9 in Quant and
10 in Verbal) will not go towards your final GMAT score. GMAT is simply
building a database for future test takers, by asking you these questions. If
luck is on your side and you only make mistakes on the experimental
questions, then you can expect a full score despite making mistakes!
However, it is possible for very high scores (read as ?very few mistakes?) to
show with a fair degree of accuracy, the association between mistakes and
raw scores.
THEZENCORNER
- You cannot ?beat? the system but knowing it better will help you optimize
your approach. This is especially true when you are taking practice tests and
want to know why you got a particular score.
- There are only 4 ways in which you can score well (or poorly):
1. Number of mistakes you made in the overall test
2. Number of experimental questions you got right/wrong
3. Position of mistakes, i.e., towards the start or towards the end
4. Frequency of mistakes in a row
GMATSCORINGALGORITHM
The GMAT is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, based on only the Quant and Verbal
sections. Along with this you will also get your AWA score, which is scored out of 6.0.
Since scores are distributed along a bell curve there are very few on either end of the
spectrum ? usual scores are in the 400-700 range.
The global average GMAT score is 540 ? and a ?good? GMAT score for top schools is
considered above 700. As mentioned earlier, you don?t need to worry about the AWA
& IR scores. You will be given separate ?raw scores? for the Quant & Verbal sections.
You will be given a 2-digit score out of 51 for each section. A raw score above 50 in
Quant & above 40 in Verbal is considered exceptional. Here is what a typical GMAT
score will look like:
700 Q49 V36 AWA 5.5 IR -7 - This means the person got a scaled score of 700 which
consisted of a Quant score of 49 (out of 51) and a Verbal score of 36 (out of 51), an
AWA rating of 5.5 (out of 6.0), and an IR score of 7 (out of 8).
It might look as if it is ?easier? to score higher on Quant than on Verbal since
typically Indians score above 45 in Quant while they struggle to hit the 40 mark
in Verbal. However, remember that the algorithm works these 2 sections! For
each question you get wrong on Verbal you are more severely penalized than
Quant. An optimistic way of looking at it is Verbal is also the area where you can
improve the most (and fastest!)
You will have to understand that the test algorithm is trying to determine your
ability level, so it is almost certain that you'll see questions that are too hard for
you. That's perfectly okay! Remember that it's possible to get a 700 (89th
percentile score) and answer more than a quarter of the questions on the entire
test wrong. Of course, this means you'll be answering difficult questions right
and missing only the even more difficult questions. It is a myth that you need to
have a very high accuracy to do well on the GMAT!
Let us now t ry t o underst and how t he GMAT Comput er Adapt ive Test works:
Theoretically, you won't get the same set of questions as the guy sitting next to
you (albeit a few overlapping questions). After the first few questions that are
selected at random, each subsequent question will be based on how you
performed on the earlier questions. If you're getting more questions right, the
algorithm gives you harder problems. If you're not, the test will start throwing
easier questions at you.
Remember that the GMAT looks for your expertise across areas. Which means if
you make similar mistakes in the same subject area your overall scaled score
will be lower than another person who uniformly distributes his mistakes in all
the subject area. For example, you can have 2 candidates with the same Q+V
scores (say Q50 V40) but with different scaled scores ? either 740 or 750.
The table below is a mapping of your scaled score to it's percentage ranking.
If you get questions wrong consecutively, you are at greater risk than if you
distribute your mistakes over a range. For example, let?s say, from questions 21
to 30 there are 2 candidates X and Y and their frequency of mistakes is: X marks
the wrong answers for questions 22, 26, and 29, while Y marks the wrong ones
for 23, 24, and 25. Then Y would be penalized heavier than X.
The scores depend on how well you are doing *relative* to others on the test, and
also the nature of the adaptive algorithm (more on that on the next page). What
this means is that these scores don't directly correspond to getting a certain
number of questions right or wrong. So it is impossible to say how much you?ll
score if you get say 5 questions wrong, or say 10 questions wrong.
Raw scores, such as the number or percentage of correct answers, are sometimes
used to report test results, but their interpretation is limited. They tell you how
well an individual answered a specific set of questions, and they also give you an
idea how one test taker did relative to others who answered the same set of
questions. Yet raw scores rarely convey regular intervals of ability. In other words,
the difference in ability between a person who got 95 percent correct and one
who got 90 percent correct on a test is not the same as the difference between a
person who got 85 percent correct and one who got 80 percent correct.
Learn how GMAC calculates your GMAT score! Click Here to download the
GMAT algorithm score sheet!
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WHYSHOULDYOUTAKETHEGMAT!
Over the last decade we have spent countless hours with thousands of students,
helping them understand why their scores were not going up. We have come to
the conclusion that the root of all lies in the same four basic problems in our
approach to test-taking, namely:
In this phase you take your prep to the next level by focusing on the higher
levels of difficulty as well as the more difficult to grasp concepts. This is also a
good time to up the tempo in Quant. You should be able to accurately pinpoint
your areas of weakness and work on them. For example, you should be able to
say, ?I am weak in questions on Standard Deviation? or ?I am not confident when
there is a pronoun ambiguity in SC?, and not, ?I am weak in SC!?
PHASE3: PRACTICE
The Americans have a phrase for it. They call it the ?home run?. This is when you
make the final lunge towards getting that near-perfect GMAT score. Ensure that
by this time you are working on crossing your t?s and dotting your i?s. And yes ?
plenty of carbs before the final run!
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