GMAT* English

The Verbal section of the Graduate Management Admission Test is composed of three different types of question: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction, and Critical Reasoning. Reading Comprehension questions are based on passages between 200 and 350 words long. These passages may be drawn from any of a number of genres, from business management to history to literature. The material used for the exam is likely to be written at a high school level; GMAT English is meant to be comprehensible to non-experts, and is therefore free of jargon or professional terminology. For the Sentence Correction exercises, you will be asked to select the version of a sentence that best expresses what you take to be the intended meaning. GMAT grammar and punctuation may not be correct, and so your correction may be in matters of form rather than syntax. Other sentences will be grammatically correct but will need to be clarified or rearranged. The Critical Reasoning exercises will require you to read a brief argument of sequence of reasoning and answer one or more questions. You may be asked to draw conclusions or inferences from the argument, or to suggest information that would strengthen or weaken the argument. The skills required for the Critical Reasoning exercises are much the same as those used in the Analysis of an Argument component of the Analytical Writing Assessment.

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