Real Yale School of Management MBA admission interview questions:
Reading Comprehension questions appear in the Verbal section of GMAT exam and they are meant to test your understanding of the implications, meanings, and structures presented in the passages. Each passage has up to 350 words and is followed by 2~4 questions. Because the GMAT is now a computer adaptive test, you will only see 1 question at a time. The passage, however, will remain on your computer screen.
There are 3 types of topics addressed in the the passages and each type of passage calls for a slightly different optimum test-taking strategy
Business school students are likely unfamiliar with science passages but actually they are very factual and straightforward. Hence, they will likely provide the easiest reading comprehension questions you will encounter on the GMAT exam. You are not likely to see any inference questions drawing on a science passage. You are much more likely to see several factual questions that can be answered directly from the passage.
Generally there are 4 types of question a GMAT test taker can encounter. The 4 types are:
The primary purpose of the passage is to
It can be inferred from the passage that both Tulving and Clayton would agree with which of the following statements?
According to the passage, the WIDC believed that the proposed legislation resembled earlier legislation concerning women’s labor in that it
The function of the first sentence of second paragraph is
Three types of multiple-choice questions are used in the Verbal section of the GMAT® exam—Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction. The Verbal section of the GMAT exam measures your ability to:
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The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a test that has been produced by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), and is used to help business schools in making admissions decisions. The GMAT test is taken by students who are applying for admission to either MBA or other graduate management programs. The GMAT test is given in English only, and it tests analytical writing, quantitative, and verbal skills. The GMAT test consists of three sections: Read the rest of this entry »
GMAT Sentence Correction questions ask you which of the five choices best expresses an idea or relationship. The questions will require you to be familiar with the stylistic conventions and grammatical rules of standard written English. You must also demonstrate your ability to improve incorrect or ineffective expressions. This section tests two broad aspects of language proficiency:
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Almost all top MBA programs ask applicants to write an essay about there short term and long term goal and how this MBA program will help the applicant reach the goal. Following is a sample career goal essay question:
Describe in a brief essay (do not exceed 250 words per section – 750 words maximum):
a) your post-MBA short-term goals (immediately after graduation),
b) your post-MBA long-term goals (3-5 years after graduation), and
c) how your professional experience, when combined with an MBA degree, will enable you to achieve these goals.
This essay is similar to the Career Plannig Essay required by many of the top schools. It should show the reader that you have a professional project that fits (indeed, necessitates) a top MBA program. Further, the reader will be able to evaluate your project against all other parts of your dossier to get a feel for how likely you are to succeed. The career goal question sounds easy to answer since everyone has a reason to apply for top MBA program. However, the reality is that not every applicants has clear and detailed or career goals. Some may just have career frustrations the other day and they want a fancy title to regain confidence; some may just want a MBA title to find whatever opportunities to make ‘big’ money. These reasons are understandable but cannot get admissions to a top MBA program. You need a WINNING career goal essay to conquer the readers. But how to write a winning career goal essay? Here are some tips:
First, tell a little bit about your working experience: your education, your career progress, your responsibilites and your contributions to your employers (speak with numbers).
Second, start with your limitations such as leadership. teamwork and social network. Explain why these limitations turn you down to your post-MBA short-term goal (position, responsibilities, contributions and challenges etc.) and why THIS MBA program is a big help. You may want to check the program’s web pages to find out the ‘why’.
Finally, set up a long term goal and explain why the MBA degree helps you in your career path.
What are your three most substantial accomplishments, and why do you view them as such? — Harvard
What is the most significant change or improvement you have made to an organization with which you have recently been affiliated? Describe the process you went through to identify the need for change and manage the process of implementing change. What were the results? — Kelley
Describe your greatest professional achievement and how you were able to add value to your organization. — Johnson
The goal in answering this kind of question is to analyze, rather than summarize, an achievement. This advice is particularly true if you’re discussing an accomplishment that is listed elsewhere on the application. Your readers want to gain insight into your character, not read a factual summary of what occurred.
Here are some guiding principles to use in constructing your answer:
Choose something that’s meaningful to you. Some applicants feel obligated to choose the most objectively impressive accomplishments. You should write about something that has personal significance, even if you weren’t formally recognized for it. What matters is that you write passionately and insightfully about your subject. Unless otherwise specified, you should feel free to draw on academic, personal, or professional successes.
Focus on details about the process. Show the reader through concrete details how you achieved what you did. If you want to discuss a grade you earned in a particularly challenging class, show us how you mastered the material. For example, describe creative strategies you used; don’t rely on clichés like “I succeeded through hard work.
Build tension. Describe obstacles and how you overcame them. Note initial difficulties or intermediate failures, then show how you recovered. By adding a sense of drama to your story, you will not only keep the reader interested, but also make the accomplishment seem that much more significant.
Evaluate the significance of the accomplishment. Again, the goal here is to add insight beyond what the reader knows from the straightforward facts. For example, you can comment on how the accomplishment represents an aspect of your character, or you can describe how it fits within your background of successes and failures. Don’t get carried away, however, and try to draw overly grand lessons. You might discuss external consequences of your actions to convey their magnitude, but ultimately you should stay focused on your personal response.
Don’t boast or be overly modest. This is a hard balance to strike, but if you stay focused on the details of your story, then you shouldn’t have a problem. Use the details to convey the magnitude of your accomplishment; you should be able to do so sincerely without having to promote yourself. For example, if you can show through illustrative evidence how you influenced the course of someone’s life, you won’t have to make a presumptuous statement about, for example, “having a profound impact on the life of another.
Reading Comprehension questions appear in the Verbal section of GMAT exam. Reading Comprehension questions begin with a passage that is up to 350 words long. Topics contain material from the social sciences, physical or biological sciences, and business-related areas (marketing, economics, human resource management, etc.). Because the Reading Comprehension section of the GMAT exam includes passages from several different content areas, you may be generally familiar with some of the material; however, no specific knowledge of the material is required. All questions are to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the reading material.
Reading Comprehension passages are accompanied by interpretive, applied, and inferential questions.
Reading Comprehension questions measure your ability to understand, analyze, and apply information and concepts presented in written form.
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GMAT Analysis of Argument (AA): Structure and Template
As with the Issue essay, there is no single “correct,” way to organize an Argument essay. In our view, however, your essay should include separate “introduction” and “conclusion” paragraphs, as well as at least two “body” paragraphs in which you develop your critique of the stated argument.
The following template spells out this structure in more detail, and each of the sample Analysis of Argument essays in this book follow this basic pattern.
You do not have to adhere strictly to this format in order to write an effective Argument essay. You may find that some other form works better for you, especially for the body of your essay. Also, the numbers of sentences indicated for each paragraph here are merely suggestions or guidelines, not hard-and-fast rules. (Note: The transitional phrases used here are purposely simplistic; do not simply “parrot” them word-for-word in your essay or adopt a mechanistic fill-in the blank approach. If you do, your essay might appear stilted or contrived.)
Try to accomplish three goals in your introductory paragraph (2-4 sentences) :
The author concludes that____________, because ________. The author’s line of reasoning is that ______________. This argument is unconvincing for several reasons; it is____________ and it uses _____________.
In the first body paragraph your goal is to critique one of the following (3-5 sentences):
Here’s a sample template for this paragraph that accomplishes this goal:
First of all, ____________________________ is based upon the questionable assumption________________________________. That _______________, however, _________________. Moreover, ________________________.
The purpose of the second paragraph is to address one of the following (3-4 sentences):
Here’s a sample template for this paragraph that accomplishes this goal:
Secondly, the author assumes that_________________________. However, __________________________. It seems equally reasonable to assume that ____________________.
Third (and optional Fourth) Body Paragraph
In this paragraph your goal is to critique one of the following:
Here’s a sample template for this paragraph that accomplishes this goal:
Finally, _______________________________________. The author fails to consider__________________________________. For example, __________________. Because the author’s argument_________________.
Final Paragraph (2-3 sentences)
In the final paragraph your goals are to:
In sum, I agree that______________________. However, ____________________; on balance, ____________________.
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Quantitative Section Instructions
Time – 75 minutes
In the Quantitative section, there are two types of questions: problem solving and data sufficiency.
For each problem solvingquestion, solve the problem and select the best of the answer choices given.
Each data sufficiency problem consists of a question and two statement, labeled (1) and (2), which contain certain data. Using these data and your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts (such as the number of days in July or the meaning of the word counterclockwise), decide whether the data given are sufficient for answering the question and then select one of the following answer choices:
Note: In data sufficiency problems that ask for the value of a quantity, the data given in the statements are sufficient only when it is possible to determine exactly one numerical value for the quantity.
For all questions in the Quantitative section you may assume the following.
Numbers: ALl numbers are realy numbers.
Figures:
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The follow outline can be used for almost all English Tests that have 30-minute-essay questions. This outline can be used for TOEFL essays, GMAT Analysis of Argument essays and Analysis of Issue essays.
Depending on personal experience, personality type and emotional concern, we find that some people hold the idea of ……A….. meanwhile others prefer to …..B…., form my point of view, it is more advisable to chose A rather than B. My arguments for this point are listed as follows.
The main reason for my propensity for A is that ______________________. _______________. For instance, ________________________.
Another reason can be seen by every one is that ____________________. ______________________. For example, ________________________.
The argument I support in the first paragraph is also in a position of advantage because ___________________________________________________.
Although I agree that there may be a couple of advantages of B, I feel that the disadvantages are more obvious. Such as _____________________. In a word, _________________________________________. So, it is sagacious to support the statement that it is better to A.
Some people call this outline ‘Structure Template‘ while I disagree. You can use this for practice to learn how a good essay structure is, but I have to mention please don’t abuse it!
Below are some sample GMAT AWA analytical argument questions. For a full list of all real essay questions please visit GMAT’s official site.
A1.The following appeared in a memorandum from the business department of the Apogee Company:
“When the Apogee Company had all its operations in one location, it was more profitable than it is today. Therefore, the Apogee Company should close down its field offices and conduct all its operations from a single location. Such centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and helping the company maintain better supervision of all employees.”
A2. The following appeared in an editorial from a magazine produced by an organization dedicated to environmental protection:
“In order to effectively reduce the amount of environmental damage that industrial manufacturing plants cause, those who manage the plants must be aware of the specific amount and types of damage caused by each of their various manufacturing processes. However, few corporations have enough financial incentive to monitor this information. In order to guarantee that corporations reduce the damage caused by their plants, the federal government should require every corporation to produce detailed annual reports on the environmental impact of their manufacturing process, and the government should impose stiff financial penalties for failure to produce these reports.”
A3. The following appeared in a memorandum from the head of a human resources department at a major automobile manufacturing company to the company’s managers: “Studies have found that employees of not-for-profit organizations and charities are often more highly motivated than employees of for-profit corporations to perform well at work when their performance is not being monitored or evaluated. Interviews with employees of not-for-profit organizations suggest that the reason for their greater motivation is the belief that their work helps to improve society. Because they believe in the importance of their work, they have personal reasons to perform well, even when no financial reward is present. Thus, if our corporation began donating a significant portion of its profits to humanitarian causes, our employees’ motivation and productivity would increase substantially and our overall profits would increase as well.”