Must read :GMAT Information Bulletin, GMAT Test Structure and Widely used Abbreviations

The very first thing everyone should do once they have decided to take GMAT is to go thru the official GMAT Information Bulletin and to get an idea of the Test Structure! If you are not aware of this, you wont know what kind of questions/topics form the GMAT, you wont be able to plan your preparation, you wont be able to follow so many helpful blogs!

Visit the official MBA site for the GMAT Information Bulletin

Visit the official MBA site for the exact GMAT Test Structure!


Abbreviations/Test structure at a glance - 

Though I went thru the Test Structure, I was totally clueless on the abbreviations which were widely used when referring to a particular section. So for your benefit and mine, memorize the follow as you will be needing this for sure!

AWA - Analytical Writing Assessment(60 mins)

QS - Quantitative Section(37 questions, 75 mins)

• DS - Data Sufficiency
• PS - Problem Solving

VS -Verbal Section(41 questions, 75 mins)

• RC - Reading Comprehension
• CR - Critical Reasoning
• SC - Sentence Correction