GMAT Exam to be 30 Minutes Shorter from April 16, Major Changes to Know
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GMAT Exam to be 30 Minutes Shorter from April 16, Major Changes to Know

MBA Aspirants vying for admission into premiere B-Schools across the globe will now have to appear for a 30-minute shorter Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). From April 16, 2018, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is shortening the length of the GMAT exam by 30 minutes as part of its ongoing focus on creating the best possible testing experience and offering user-friendly features to candidates.

Beginning from April 16, the new shorter exam from four hours to three-and-a-half hours will be available for test-takers worldwide. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the owner of the GMAT has announced that the quality of the exam and scoring algorithm of the exam remains unchanged in terms of reliability, validity, security and integrity. The total Score and individual Quantitative and Verbal section scores will be comparable to the exams taken prior to this change.

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GMAT scores before and after this change will be the same and comparable across time. This change will not affect GMAT exam scoring as the number of scored questions will not change. There is no action or change required on the part of Business Schools and Universities. GMAC with their objective will provide with the same high quality, fair and reliable scores of the candidates to Business Schools.


The senior director of product management for GMAC, Vineet Chhabra said, “We believe candidates will have less anxiety and feel better prepared, which can contribute to a better reflection of their true performance on the exam. We are always looking for ways to help build candidate confidence and streamline the test experience, all with one goal in mind—to help GMAT test-takers do their very best on exam day “.

Chhabra said, “Through our ongoing market feedback and operational reviews, we were able to identify this opportunity to shorten the exam, without changing its reliability”.

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How GMAC Shorten GMAT Exam by 30 Mins?

The time savings are achieved by streamlining the two longer sections of the exam, the Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning sections, reducing the number of unscored, research questions in these sections. There are no changes to the exam’s Analytical Writing or Integrated Reasoning sections.

GMAC has also simplified several Online tutorial and instruction screens that test-takers see at the test center on exam day, which will further enhance and streamline the test center experience of the candidates.

GMAC has moved the tutorial information online, to www.mba.com, this will helpful to the applicant, the test takers to access it prior arriving at the test center, at their convenience and as often as they wish.

GMAC has announced that the way the GMAT exam is scored, the content of the exam, the question types and the average time per question are not changing.

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New GMAT Official Prep tools

To align with the changes, GMAC is launching new GMAT Official Prep tools to match the structure of the new pattern of shorter exam.

GMAT Official Prep tools are the only official source of retired GMAT questions, and the Council’s research shows that candidates who use official products score an average of 18 percent higher on the GMAT exam than those who don’t. The updated practice tools will be available by the end of April.

The GMAT Official Practice Exams and Practice Questions will be available on an online platform for better ease-of-use, as well as some feature improvements such as single sign-on and ability to access prep materials across multiple devices.

These changes are part of a series of candidate-friendly enhancements to the GMAT exam in recent years, all focused on improving the testing experience, including:

•    Selection of Exam section order at the testing center (Select Section Order).
•    Making unofficial scores available immediately, before leaving the test center following the exam.
•    Updates to score cancellation and reinstatement options.

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GMAT by GMAC

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a global, non-profit association of 223 leading graduate business schools.

GMAC owns and administers the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exam, used by more than 7,000 graduate programs worldwide.

The GMAT exam conducted by GMAC is designed to showcase the skills that are most relevant to the world’s leading graduate business programs; 9 out of 10 new MBA enrollments globally are made using a GMAT score.

A total of 250,884 GMAT exam were taken by prospective business school students around the world, and 32,514 GMAT exams taken by prospective business students in India in the testing year 2017, which ran from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017.

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