 Bangalore: The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has announced the constituents of new format for NextGen GMAT, June 2012.
Integrated Reasoning, the new section will have four basic formats- Graphic interpretation, Multiple-source reasoning, Table analysis and Two-part analysis.
Graphical interpretation will be based on images and present as multiple-choice question, under Multiple-source reasoning, questions will be asked from same data, For table analysis, tables will have to be sorted in different ways.
For, the first time, an on-screen calculator will be provided to candidates for the fourth format named Two-part analysis.
The new section will consists of 12 questions to be done within 30 minutes. It has been introduced by removing an essay from the analytical writing assessment section. The other two sections, verbal and quantitative will not undergo any change. Therefore the score and timings of the exam (3 hours, 30 minutes) will remain same.
The format has been changed by the GMAC after 17 years, following a survey of B-schools in which they urged for new skills to be tested.
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