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Executive Assessment Flashcards

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Free flashcards for the Executive Assessment: flip each card to reveal the answer. Built from the structure and glossary as a study aid, these are concept checks, not real assessment questions.

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Executive Assessment: A shorter business-school admissions test from GMAC, designed for experienced professionals and Executive MBA applicants.
Who owns the Executive Assessment?: GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council), the same body that owns the GMAT. The official candidate site is mba.com.
How long is the Executive Assessment?: About 90 minutes of testing: three 30-minute sections, plus check-in and a short break.
How many questions in total?: 40 questions: 12 Integrated Reasoning, 14 Verbal Reasoning, 14 Quantitative Reasoning.
The three sections: Integrated Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning, each 30 minutes and weighted equally.
Total score scale: 100 to 200, built from the three section scores weighted equally.
Section score scale: Each section is scored from 0 to 20.
Is there a pass mark?: No. The score is scaled, not pass or fail. Each school sets its own expectation for a competitive total.
Score validity: Valid for 5 years, and reportable to schools for up to 10 years.
How many lifetime attempts?: Up to four: two at a test center and two online, with at least 24 hours between attempts.
Registration fee: US$350, the same for test center and online, plus any applicable taxes.
Multistage adaptive format: Question difficulty adjusts based on your earlier answers, so early questions matter and you cannot roam freely.
Typical preparation time: Around 30 hours for the typical candidate - far less than the GMAT, since it measures reasoning built over a career.
Integrated Reasoning question types: Multi-Source Reasoning, Graphics Interpretation, Two-Part Analysis and Table Analysis.
Verbal Reasoning question types: Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction.
Quantitative Reasoning question types: Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency, covering arithmetic, algebra and basic geometry.
Data Sufficiency: what do you decide?: Whether the given statements are enough to answer the question - not what the final answer is.
Calculator rules: No calculator on Quantitative Reasoning. An on-screen calculator is available in Integrated Reasoning.
Critical Reasoning: the key skill: Find the argument's conclusion and the unstated assumption that holds it together.
Where do experienced candidates lose the most marks?: Rusty quant and the unfamiliar Data Sufficiency and Integrated Reasoning formats - not advanced content.
Why does equal weighting matter for study?: No section counts more than another, so lifting your weakest section raises the total most efficiently.
Executive Assessment vs GMAT in one line: Shorter and lighter to prepare for, built for EMBA applicants, but accepted by fewer schools than the GMAT.