Answers to questions about the GMAT and Executive Assessment

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Straight Talk with GMAC

inside the exam with the creators of the GMAT & EA

Preparing for the GMAT or Executive Assessment can feel like navigating a maze blindfolded. Test-takers often have pressing questions about the exams, from scoring mysteries to testing accommodations.

Fortunately, GMAC – the creators of the GMAT and Executive Assessment – have answered all of these questions on camera, in a YouTube video series hosted by our own Charles Bibilos.

You Asked Us; We Asked GMAC

Our video series tackles the most common concerns we hear from students, including:

Why is my GMAT exam “under review”? Am I in trouble?
What is this Executive Assessment thing? Is it just a “lite” version of the GMAT?
I’ve met people who get extra testing time because of ADHD or some other condition. How does that work?
When schools receive my official score report, is there a photo of me? Does it include scores from every exam I’ve taken?
I’ve heard that online GMAT scores often get cancelled. Should I take the at-home GMAT instead?
Are the official MBA.com practice tests just like the real exam, or are there differences?
How many RC passages and MSR sets are on the GMAT?

And here’s the question we hear the most:

I don’t understand how GMAT scoring works! I missed only two questions on a section, and my score wasn’t great. How is that even fair?!?

When we started brainstorming this video series, we started with a list of more than 100 questions our students have asked about the GMAT and EA. That list became the springboard for dozens and dozens of conversations that reached nearly every corner of GMAC.

Why did we do all of this? If you’re a test-taker, the GMAT can seem like it was designed by cruel, elusive bogeymen intent on making your life harder. Our goal is to pull back the curtain, revealing the people and processes behind the exam. Through this series, we aim to ease the stress of test preparation by offering clear, honest insights into the GMAT and Executive Assessment.

Bringing Unprecedented Openness to the GMAT & EA

I say this with pride: it took us 15 months to produce just ten short videos, partly because testing agencies simply aren’t accustomed to this level of openness and transparency. There are good reasons why: a misstatement could compromise the integrity of the exam or inadvertently mislead test-takers.

So everything you’ll see in our video series was the result of painstaking collaboration, with up to a dozen different voices shaping the content for each video.

We think you’ll like the result: our series provides an all-access pass to everything you need to know about the GMAT and Executive Assessment. From scoring algorithms to policies for the at-home GMAT, you’ll gain insights that make the test-taking process less daunting and more approachable.

You can watch all of the videos below, and if you have any questions you’d like to see us address in a future video, please let us know in the comments or on this GMAT Club thread.