GMAT 2021 Syllabus
The course curriculum for GMAT includes Analytical Writing Assessment, Integrated Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning. The syllabus of the exam highlights the important chapters of different subjects that will be asked in the entrance. It complete syllabus of GMAT 2021 has been mentioned below:
Analytical Writing Assessment
In this section, a passage will be given to the students to read, then they have to answer certain questions after reading the passage. It's done to check the student's understanding of capacity. This section is very lengthy and it also needs the skill of reading and understanding the context at the same time. The section is further divided into two groups:-
Argument essay
Students have to analyze and present their arguments for a given statement. The aspirants will be examined based on their reasons supporting their argument.
Issue essay
The section asks the students to write an essay of 600 words on a particular topic. Candidates have to write it in support or against the issue given with proper justification. This is done to check the writing skill of the candidate.
Integrated Reasoning
The questions asked here are aimed to test the aspirant's overall ability to understand and analyze different types of information related to verbal, graphical, and numeric. The sub-sections are mentioned below:
Table Analysis:
In this section, students will be asked to sort and analyze a given table of data. It can be a spreadsheet to determine certain information.
Two-Part Analysis:
Complex problems will be asked to students to analyze the skills. The students have to solve a questionnaire comprising of verbal, quantitative, or both. The format can be very dynamic and difficult.
Multi-Source Reasoning:
Students will be asked questions with multiple tables, text passages, graphics, or a combination of both. This section is in the multiple-choice based format in which the answer can only be derived after careful analysis of the data.
Graphics Interpretation:
The section consists of graphical images like pie charts, bar graphs, scatter plots to examine a student's ability to analyze information and find out the asked relationships or interfaces.
Analytical Writing Assessment | Integrated Reasoning |
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Argument essay | Table Analysis |
Issue essay | Two-Part Analysis |
Multi-Source Reasoning | |
Graphics Interpretation |
Quantitative Reasoning
It is regarded as the mathematics section of the entrance examination. Here students will be asked numerical questions with multiple choices. The total questions asked in this section are 36.
Quantitative Reasoning | |
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Problem Solving | Data Sufficiency |
Geometry | Elementary Algebra |
Arithmetic | Ratio Proportions |
Properties of Integers | Permutation and combinations |
Exponents and roots | Linear equations |
Verbal Reasoning
It determines the student's ability to understand the logical relationship between the written information as per the passage given and the concepts involved. This section has a total of 36 multiple choices based questions.
Verbal Reasoning | |
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Critical Reasoning | Reading Comprehension |
Sentence Correction | Critical reasoning |
The Rhetorical Construction of the sentences | Sentence correction (error or omission) |
Subject-verb agreement | Misplace modifiers |
Countable Vs Uncountable | Parallelism |