Graduate Management Admission Test. This standardized test is required for admission at over 1000 business schools worldwide. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the makers of the test, "The GMAT is specifically designed to measure the verbal, quantitative, and writing skills of applicants for graduate study in business. It does not, however, presuppose any specific knowledge of business or other specific content areas, nor does it measure achievement in any particular subject areas." The GMAT is given in English, and consists of the following three separately timed sections:

• Analytical Writing Assessment 2 essays, 30 minutes each; one essay asks for an analysis of an issue, the other asks for an analysis of an argument.
• Quantitative Section 37 multiple-choice questions, 75 minutes; two question types: Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency.
• Verbal Section 41 multiple-choice questions, 75 minutes; three question types: Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction.