How to Prepare for GMAT

If you are a Professional, hatching plans to get enrolled in a Business School, certainly you would be working on, GMAT. Exploring your analytical and verbal skills and deprived of sleep because you desire to bloom as a Scholar from the Harvard Business School.

There are many a factors which might help you to score well in the digital based testing. A proficient GMAT candidate will measure his speed, as a primary need.

The total score for the multiple choice question paper is 800. Top business schools fish for an outstanding performer, well equipped to score up to 750 rather than an average score, ranging from 400 to 600.

Now that you know how much you need to score read on to equip yourself with some easy and effective tips on how to get that dream GMAT score.

The GMAT question paper has three sections:

1. Analytical Writing Assessment
2. Verbal Part
3. Quantitative Part

1. Analytical Writing

• You might have understood from the name, it tests your underlying ability for critical thinking and communication.
• There will be 2 different kinds of 30 minute essay writing tasks. Analytical essay of an issue and another one on argument. A know-how person would spend less time on this part, whereas he would focus on the quantitative and critical reasoning Sections. So cover a lot of ground on the topics related with Issues and Argument, to enrich yourself with a diverse variety and range of ideas. These ideas will come in handy on D-day when you have to do the actual writing. Always remember, simple sentences with specific words will help you to score higher. When you think simple, you do not hunt for words, result is clean and perfect grammatical phrases.
• The essays will be evaluated by both GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) and a computerized tool known as “E-Rater”. So make sure it is structurally correct and appeals both to the human and the computer.

2. Verbal Part

•  Verbal tests are designed to test how good you basic English grammar fundamentals are. It consists of three sections:

a.    Reading Comprehension

• You are expected to analyze the passages, on a variety of subjects such as Politics, Science, business and the like.
• An eye for detail is required to find out the logical substance in the passage. When you find the question refers to a specific line in the passage, read the continuation of the line for a couple of times. Mystery is solved, and you have found key to the answer.

b.    Critical Reasoning

• This tests the logical thinking of the candidate. An argument is presented where you are asked to analyze it and judge the conclusion.
• It requires your profound understanding, of its weakness, strengths, and the examples with a well fit argument construction. It’s good to practice tests to draw a conclusion with the argument.
• Choose the answers from the evaluation in a manner where it doesn’t leave room for assumption.

c. Sentence Correction

• Grammar, expression, clarity and correct diction are the 4   parameters    on which a GMAT candidate is judged. Consider it a cakewalk as you’ll find all the basic errors    in the form of parts of speech, be it noun, pronoun, prepositions, adverbs and idioms.
•  A detailed study on the properties/grammatical rules of the above will help you to be   proficient in the sentence correction.

3. Quantitative Part

• Additional mathematical skills are in demand to win this section, filled with figures. You have got only 75 minutes to solve 37 problems.
• Here comes the crucial need of basic mathematical skills of arithmetic, averages, fractions, decimals, algebra, factoring and geometry in two sections

a.    Problem Solving

• It’s advisable to refresh your high school mathematical formulas as will be working on the problems that have their grounds in arithmetic, averages and geometry.
• Apply the formulas to solve the plain mathematical and the logical problems, using calculation.
• You’ll also see that real numbers play a vital role in the word problems.

b.    Data Sufficiency

• As the term suggests, these set of questions demands logical thinking. You will be given an unusual set of numbered statements.
• You might find it tedious but the more you revise your high school mathematics the more room you’ll discover to analyze and judge the statements. Practice with the real time quantitative problems.
• Rather than hunting for time, it’s good to memorize the choices. Apply the formulas and then eliminate the choices. And there you are, have got the right answer.

To carry through your skills in a GMAT test, what is most important is time management. From the time you have applied for GMAT, a perfect tailoring of the above mentioned skills will enable you with a great platform, one that will help you earn a great score. As Aldous Huxley quotes “Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."

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