Find Out What's Changing
Today's businesses and organizations demand managers who can make sound decisions, discern patterns, and combine verbal and quantitative reasoning to solve problems. The Integrated Reasoning section will measure these skills.
On June 5, 2012, the GMAT® exam will introduce Integrated Reasoning, a new section designed to measure your ability to evaluate information presented in multiple formats from multiple sources – skills that you already use, and skills that you need to succeed in our data-rich world.
Why the Changes to the GMAT Exam?
The way we conduct business and the way we teach business change over time. For more than 50 years, the GMAT exam has kept pace with these changes to help schools find the right students, and help students find the right schools.
The skills being tested by the Integrated Reasoning section were identified in a survey of 740 management faculty worldwide as important for today’s incoming students. The Integrated Reasoning score will provide a new data point for schools to find the right candidates for their programs, and for you to stand out.
GMAT Exam Format
The GMAT exam will remain 3 hours, 30 minutes (four hours with breaks). The Analytical Writing Assessment will be streamlined from two 30-minute essays to one Analysis of an Argument essay. Immediately after the essay question, the Integrated Reasoning section will start. Test takers will have optional breaks before and after the Quantitative sections:
