GMAT: Graduate Management Admission TestThe Graduate Management Admission TestTM (GMATTM) is a standardized assessment, administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS), that is used by many business schools worldwide to help evaluate candidates for their MBA programs.
The test contains three main sections: quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning, and analytical writing. It evaluates skills and abilities that develop over relatively long periods of time, and does not test specific knowledge obtained in college course work.
The GMAT uses a so-called computer-adaptive format, which means that the test continuously tries to adjust to your individual level. You are presented with one question at a time, drawn from a large pool of questions that have been categorized by content and difficuly. The first question is of average difficulty. As long as you keep answering questions correctly, the following questions will keep getting more and more difficult. If you make a mistake, the next question will be slightly less difficult. In theory, by the time you finish the test, you should be answering about half of your questions correctly.