The Graduate Management Admission Test GMAT (pronounced:/ˈdʒiːmæt/) is a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate* management program, such as an MBA.

Created in 1954 by nine business schools, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) aimed at being more selective of their business school candidates, and so came up with the test.The GMAT itself was developed by the Education Testing Service (ETS) and was at the time called the Admissions Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATGSB). Over the years, the test has gone through several changes and today scores will vary from 205 to 805 points, and a percentile figure, all derived from a composite result, taking into account the difficulty of questions you got right or wrong -roughly meaning that the next question you'll see is more difficult than the one you just aced, but the exact details of the algorithm that rules such pattern is secret proprietary information of GMAC. The Verbal Section is still largely considered the most challenging part of the test for both "native" and "non-native" speakers of the English language.

The GMAT is administered over 120,000 times every year in 90 countries and since the latest major format change in January 2024 - the so called Focus Edition -  the test has been structured as follows: