{"id":291,"date":"2020-08-05T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/?p=291"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:00:19","slug":"18-gmat-acronyms-you-must-know-to-start-an-outstanding-gmat-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/18-gmat-acronyms-you-must-know-to-start-an-outstanding-gmat-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"18 GMAT Acronyms you must know to start an outstanding GMAT Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Official acronyms related to GMAT<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GMAT<\/strong> &#8211; Graduate Management Admission Test<\/li>\n<li><strong>GMAC<\/strong> &#8211; Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAT test creators)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CAT<\/strong> &#8211; Computer Adaptive Test (GMAT follows a computer adaptive methodology to test and score)<\/li>\n<li><strong>AWA<\/strong> &#8211; Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA is one of the sections on the GMAT exam)<\/li>\n<li><strong>IR<\/strong> &#8211; Integrated Reasoning (IR is one of the sections on the GMAT exam)<\/li>\n<li><strong>GMAT Prep<\/strong>: Discontinued name for the free mock tests provided by GMAC on mba.com website. MBA.com still provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mba.com\/exam-prep\/gmat-official-starter-kit-practice-exams-1-and-2-free\">free and paid mock tests<\/a>. These mocks are the only authentic source of GMAT type mock tests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OG<\/strong> &#8211; Official Guide for GMAT Review. An official study guide published by the GMAT Test creators. An authentic source of gmat type practice questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Colloquial acronyms related to GMAT<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DS<\/strong> &#8211; Data Sufficiency. GMAT Math section has two types of questions. DS is one of those types.<br \/>\n<strong>PS<\/strong> &#8211; Problem Solving. GMAT Math section has two types of questions. PS is one of those types.<\/li>\n<li><strong>RC<\/strong> &#8211; Reading Comprehension. GMAT Verbal section has three types of questions. RC is one of those types.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CR<\/strong> &#8211; Critical Reasoning. GMAT Verbal section has three types of questions. CR is one of those types.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SC<\/strong> &#8211; Sentence Correction<\/li>\n<li><strong>BF CR<\/strong> &#8211; Bold Face Critical Reasoning. A specific type of CR where a part of the question is &#8220;bolded&#8221;. Usually some of the toughest questions in the GMAT.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OA<\/strong> &#8211; Official Answer for any question<\/li>\n<li><strong>OE<\/strong> &#8211; Official Explanation for any question<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other acronyms<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GCD<\/strong> &#8211; Greatest Common Divisor<\/li>\n<li><strong>HCF<\/strong> &#8211; Same as GCD: Highest Common Factor<\/li>\n<li><strong>LCM<\/strong> &#8211; Lowest Common Multiple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official acronyms related to GMAT GMAT &#8211; Graduate Management Admission Test GMAC &#8211; Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAT test creators) CAT &#8211; Computer Adaptive Test (GMAT follows a computer adaptive methodology to test and score) AWA &#8211; Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA is one of the sections on the GMAT exam) IR &#8211; Integrated Reasoning (IR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[51,54,50,53,52],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatbyexample.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}