Essential for integrating most MBAs, the GMAT test requires an investment in terms of time and money.
Identify your weak points
Take time to review
Use training tools
Get coached
Establish a strategy
Identify your weak points
Created for English-speaking students, the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) includes a verbal part and a mathematical part. “Candidates who have passed a Scientific Baccalaureate in France are generally well equipped for mathematics, but the verbal part can be difficult”, specifies Raymond Ouellet, IMBA director at NOEMA Business School. Know how to identify your shortcomings and leave nothing to chance.
Take time to review
The GMAT is not a test to be prepared as a dabbler. “You have to devote time to it every day for three to four months,” insists Riadh Hamida, founder of the Colbert preparation course. Remember to revise the basics. “A lot of math questions are third or second level,” he says.
Use training tools
There are GMAT preparation manuals that offer exercises as well as practical advice. On the official website www.mba.com you will also find free training software: GMATPrep®Software. It is also recommended that you use your computer as often as possible in your practice in order to familiarize yourself with the conditions of the test. You will gain in relevance and speed.
Get coached
It is possible to call on a private institution to help you. “The courses will be motivating and will give a work rhythm to people who have difficulty getting organized, however they are expensive and do not guarantee performance”, observes Raymond Ouellet. Riadh Hamida emphasizes the advantage of personalized courses, “which adapt to the curriculum of each candidate. In addition, some schools, such as Audencia, offer free online coaching to their candidates.
Establish a strategy
The GMAT is an adaptive test: each correct answer leads to a more difficult and better-scored question than the previous one. According to Riadh Hamida, a good strategy during MCQs can make the difference: “pay close attention to the first ten questions, manage your time between easy and difficult questions, learn to recognize experimental questions, which don’t count, and pass them… These reflexes can earn a lot of points. » The specialized literature as well as the courses will help you to effectively understand the mechanisms of the test.