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Chào mọi người

Trong bài viết này mình sẽ chia sẻ với mọi người các thông tin quan trọng nhất liên quan đến bài thi GMAT mà mọi người cần nắm trước khi học và ôn thi GMAT nhé.

1/ GMAT là gì?

GMAT là một bài thi chuẩn hoá computer adaptive (tức là độ khó dễ của đề thi sẽ thay đổi dựa trên bài làm của bạn) để đánh giá các kỹ năng về độc hiểu, viết, phân tích, và toán cho việc nộp hồ sơ master hoặc MBA vào các trường kinh doanh trên thế giới. 

Các bạn có thể coi video này để hiểu hơn về hình thức computer adaptive của GMAT nhé

2/ Cấu trúc bài thi GMAT 

Bài thi GMAT gồm có 4 phần 

  • Analytical Writing Assessment 
  • Integrated Reasoning 
  • Quantitative Reasoning 
  • Verbal Reasoning 

Cấu trúc cụ thể của bài thi sẽ như sau 

Khoá học luyện thi GMAT hiệu quả

3/ Mô tả chi tiết về phần thi Quantitative Reasoning 

Bài thi Toán GMAT đánh giá khả năng suy luận toán học, giải quyết các vấn đề tính toán cũng như diễn giải thông tin trên đồ thi. 

Đề thi có 31 câu hỏi trắc nghiệm và thời gian làm bài là 62 phút.

Hai loại câu hỏi của đề thi Toán GMAT 

Problem Solving

  • Measures your ability to use logic and analytical reasoning to solve quantitative problems.
  • You solve the problem and indicate the best of five answer choices.

Data Sufficiency

  • Measures your ability to analyze a quantitative problem, recognize which data is relevant, and determine at what point there are enough data to solve the problem.
  • You will be given a problem that consists of a question and two statements. Using the data in the statements, plus your knowledge of math and everyday facts, you decide whether you have enough data in the statement to answer the question asked.

Câu hỏi mẫu 

Sample Problem Solving Question

Directions

Solve the problem and indicate the best of the answer choices given.

Question

If u > t, r > q, s > t, and t > r, which of the following must be true? 

  1. u > s
  2. s > q
  3. u > r

(A) I only 

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) I and II

(E) II and III

Answer: (E)

Tổng hợp đề thi Toán GMAT 

Sample Data Sufficiency Question

Directions

This data sufficiency problem consists of a question and two statements, labeled (1) and (2), in which certain data are given. You have to decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Using the data given in the statements, plus your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts (such as the number of days in July or the meaning of the word counterclockwise), you must indicate whether:

  • Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
  • Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
  • BOTH statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question asked, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question asked.
  • EACH statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question asked.
  • Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question asked, and additional data specific to the problem are needed.

Question

If a real estate agent received a commission of 6 percent of the selling price of a certain house, what was the selling price of the house? 

(1) The selling price minus the real estate agent’s commission was $84,600.

(2) The selling price was 250 percent of the original purchase price of $36,000. 

(A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. 

(B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. 

(C) BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient. 

(D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient. 

(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

Answer: (D)

4/ Mô tả chi tiết về phần thi Verbal Reasoning 

Phần thi Verbal Reasoning sẽ đánh giá khả năng đọc hiểu đoạn văn, suy luận và phân tích arguments, cũng như cách trình bày ý tưởng một cách hiệu quả trong văn viết. 

Đề thi Verbal Reasoning có 36 câu hỏi với thời gian làm bài 65 phút.

3 loại câu hỏi trong bài thi Verbal Reasoning 

Reading Comprehension

  • Measures your ability to understand words and statements, understand logical relationships between significant points, draw inferences, and follow the development of quantitative concepts. Specifically, the following reading skills will be tested: main idea, supporting idea, inference, application, logical structure, and style.
  • Each Reading Comprehension passage comes with questions that ask you to interpret material, draw inferences or apply to a further context. The passages discuss topics including social sciences and humanities, physical and biological sciences, or a business-related field.

Critical Reasoning

  • Measures your ability to make arguments, evaluate arguments, and formulate or evaluate a plan of action.
  • Critical Reasoning questions are based on a short reading passage, usually fewer than 100 words. Typically, the short text comes with a question that asks you which of the five answer options strengthens or weakens an argument, tells why the argument is flawed, or strongly supports or damages the argument.

Sentence Correction – hướng dẫn ôn thi Sentence Correction 

  • Measures two broad aspects of your language proficiency. First, correct expression, referring to sentences that are grammatically and structurally sound. Second, effective expression, referring to sentences that effectively express an idea or relationship clearly, concisely, and grammatically.
  • Each Sentence Correction question presents a sentence, part or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined part. Paying attention to grammar, word choice and sentence construction, you must choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence.

Câu hỏi mẫu 

Sample Reading Comprehension Question

Directions

The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Question

Schools expect textbooks to be a valuable source of information for students. My research suggests, however, that textbooks that address the place of Native Americans within the history of the United States distort history to suit a particular cultural value system. In some textbooks, for example, settlers are pictured as more humane, complex, skillful, and wise than Native Americans. In essence, textbooks stereotype and depreciate the numerous Native American cultures while reinforcing the attitude that the European conquest of the New World denotes the superiority of European cultures. Although textbooks evaluate Native American architecture, political systems, and homemaking, I contend that they do it from an ethnocentric, European perspective without recognizing that other perspectives are possible.

One argument against my contention asserts that, by nature, textbooks are culturally biased and that I am simply underestimating children’s ability to see through these biases. Some researchers even claim that by the time students are in high school, they know they cannot take textbooks literally. Yet substantial evidence exists to the contrary. Two researchers, for example, have conducted studies that suggest that children’s attitudes about particular cultures are strongly influenced by the textbooks used in schools. Given this, an ongoing, careful review of how school textbooks depict Native Americans is certainly warranted.

Which of the following would most logically be the topic of the paragraph immediately following the passage?

(A) Specific ways to evaluate the biases of United States history textbooks
(B) The centrality of the teacher’s role in United States history courses
(C) Nontraditional methods of teaching United States history
(D) The contributions of European immigrants to the development of the United States
(E) Ways in which parents influence children’s political attitudes 

Answer: (A)

Sample Critical Reasoning Question

Directions

For this question, select the best of the answer choices given.

Question

The cost of producing radios in Country Q is ten percent less than the cost of producing radios in Country Y. Even after transportation fees and tariff charges are added, it is still cheaper for a company to import radios from Country Q to Country Y than to produce radios in Country Y.

The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

(A) Labor costs in Country Q are ten percent below those in Country Y.
(B) Importing radios from Country Q to Country Y will eliminate ten percent of the manufacturing jobs in Country Y.
(C) The tariff on a radio imported from Country Q to Country Y is less than ten percent of the cost of manufacturing the radio in Country Y.
(D) The fee for transporting a radio from Country Q to Country Y is more than ten percent of the cost of manufacturing the radio in Country Q.
(E) It takes ten percent less time to manufacture a radio in Country Q than it does in Country Y.

Answer: (C)

Sample Sentence Correction Question

Directions

This question presents a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

This question tests correctness and effectiveness of expression. In choosing your answer, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, and sentence construction. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error.

Question

While larger banks can afford to maintain their own data-processing operations, many smaller regional and community banks are finding that the cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment and with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff are prohibitive.

(A) cost associated with
(B) costs associated with
(C) costs arising from
(D) cost of
(E) costs of

Answer: (B)

Tổng hợp tài liệu ôn thi GMAT 

5/ Mô tả chi tiết phần thi Analytical Writing 

Phần thi Writing của GMAT yêu cầu thí sinh phân tích 1 reasoning behind an argument và sau đó trình bày phần đánh giá/ phản biện về argument này. Khả năng suy luận phản biện cũng như khả năng trình bày là 2 yếu tố chấm điểm quan trọng

Đề thi Writing bao gồm 1 câu hỏi với thời gian làm bài 30 phút 

Câu hỏi mẫu 

The following appeared in the editorial section of a monthly business news magazine: 

“Most companies would agree that as the risk of physical injury occurring on the job increases, the wages paid to employees should also increase. Hence it makes financial sense for employers to make the workplace safer: they could thus reduce their payroll expenses and save money.” 

Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. 

You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion. 

6/ Đăng ký thi GMAT 

Để đăng ký thi GMAT thì các bạn sẽ cần phải tạo tài khoản trên trang MBA.COM và sau đó chọn ngày thi và tiến hành thủ tục thanh toán. Quy trình đăng ký thi GMAT khá đơn giản mà các bạn có thể tham khảo hướng dẫn chi tiết ở link này. 

Các bạn có thể chọn 2 hình thức thi 

  • Thi offline tại địa điểm thi (có 1 địa điểm ở Hà Nội và 1 địa điểm ở Hồ Chí Minh
  • Thi online ở nhà

Kinh nghiệm của mình thì các bạn nên chọn thi offline vì đường truyền sẽ ổn định hơn nhiều so với việc thi online. 

7/ Bài thi GMAT mẫu

GMAT có 2 bài thi mẫu chấm điểm theo đúng thuật toán của GMAT để các bạn có thể thực hành

Các bạn tham khảo hướng dẫn làm bài thi mẫu ở đây nhé 

Tuy nhiên, vì là bài thi mẫu nên đề thi cũng sẽ dễ hơn thi thật và điểm làm bài cũng có thể không phản ánh chính xác điểm thật khi đi thi của các bạn. Các bạn nên tự học trước hoặc xem qua một lượt các dạng câu hỏi của GMAT trước khi làm bài để không bị bất ngờ với nhiều dạng câu hỏi lạ xuất hiện trong đề thi.