Introduction to Mini GMAT

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) recently launched a new product called the Executive Assessment (EA) or mini GMAT, which is designed specifically for Executive MBA courses. It serves a different purpose than the GMAT.

EMBA programs don’t have the compulsory criteria of a standardized test. Since the candidates for executive MBA typically a lot more work experience than regular MBA applicants, they are not in touch with academic classroom experience and have less time to take a standardized test. EA GMAT provides an option that may have an easier path.

Six top-tier Executive MBA schools across the world have begun accepting the new Mini GMAT for admission to the Executive MBA course, namely –

  1. CEIBS (China European International Business School), China
  2. Chicago Booth, US
  3. Columbia Business School, US
  4. University of Hong Kong Business School, Hong Kong
  5. INSEAD, France
  6. London Business School, UK

GMAC expects the Mini GMAT to become the required standardized test at rest of b-schools a year from now.

Difference between Mini GMAT and GMAT

The content and syllabus of Mini GMAT are relevant to executives in terms of increased focus on critical thinking, problem-solving and analysis, rather than pure mathematics and grammatical structures. The duration of the exam is also short, lasting only 90 minutes compared to three and a half hours of GMAT.

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Mini GMAT Format

The format of Mini GMAT includes 40 questions in total, which are divided into three sections—Integrated Reasoning, Math and Verbal. All three sections last for 30 minutes each.

 Sections No. of Questions Question Types Score
Integrated Reasoning 12 This section include questions similar to questions asked in the GMAT Exam 0-20
Verbal 14 Questions related to critical reasoning are similar to the GMAT Exam

Questions related to sentence correction are shorter in comparison to the questions in the GMAT Exam

0-21
Quant 14 Statistics, Fractions, Percentage, Number Properties, Story Problems 0-20
Total 40 Score is considered all the three sections 100-200

The new exam can be taken at the same test centers across the world where the GMAT is also being offered. However, you will have to be careful while taking the Mini GMAT, as you are allowed to take the exam only two times in your lifetime.

Reasons behind the introduction of Mini MBA

Experts in the field, however, have their own speculations about the reason behind the appearance of this new exam. According to John A. Byrne, author at Poets and Quants, GMAC is concerned about losing the market share from business schools since they don’t ask for GMAT scores to get admitted to their Executive MBA courses. Now GMAC has recruited select six business schools for an experimental run of Mini GMAT.

In recent years several b-schools have dumped GMAT scores as an admission requirement to Executive MBA. Many b-schools felt GMAT was not an accurate predictor of success for Executive MBA students. As a result, GMAC is hoping to convince other colleges and to bring back some of those colleges that don’t have GMAT scores as a requirement.

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