The GMAT, or Graduate Management Admission Test, is a standardized test designed to assess skills relevant to graduate studies in business and management. GMAT is required to be undertaken by those students who wish to pursue M.B.A in United States. GMAT measures language, quantitative and writing skills and is designed to help predict a student's potential academic performance in the first year of graduate management school. Since October 1997, the GMAT has been administered exclusively as a computer adaptive test, or CAT. The GMAT CAT consists of 150 minutes of multiple-choice testing, plus two 30-minute writing sessions. (Test takers are required to type their essays using a simple word-processing program.) GMAT is measured on a maximum of 800 marks.

Here's how the four sections of the GMAT CAT break down:

Analytical Writing Section Analysis of an issue topic 1 essay - 30 minutes Verbal Section Reading comp Sentence correction Critical reasoning 41 questions - 75 minutes

Quantitative Section
Data sufficiency
Problem solving
37 questions - 75 minutes