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The ie admission test or ieGAT is a challenging test created by IE University that will thoroughly examine your numerical, verbal, and abstract reasoning abilities under a tight time limit. Since the ieGAT exam can only be taken once, the stakes are high and the resulting stress can damage your score.
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The ieGAT Test (IE Global Admissions Test) was created by the IE International University (IEU) as a substitute for the GMAT, GRE, or LSAT tests. The ieGAT admission Test is very challenging because it adapts to your individual response level, meaning the level will become increasingly difficult as you answer more questions correctly early on.
Another unique attribute of the ieGAT exam is that there is negative scoring for wrong questions and your ranking is determined by both your speed and accuracy, adding extra difficulty to this already challenging admissions test.
Although the ieGAT test does not assess academic skills, it does evaluate your ability to think critically and comprehend scenarios from texts and numbers - all under significant time pressure and the fatigue of an 80-90 minute test.
The ieGAT exam, is 80 to 90 minutes long with no breaks. Includes 129 verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning questions which appear in random order and are divided as follows:
Verbal Reasoning - 50 questions
Numerical Reasoning - 56 questions
Abstract Reasoning - 23 questions
Please note that there are differences between the paper and online versions of the ie Global Admissions Test - we'll dive into those further down the page.
On the verbal reasoning section of the ieGAT exam, you will need to read a passage and answer two questions. The texts will often discuss economic topics, such as unemployment or GDP.
The questions aim to determine your comprehension of written professional English, and are multiple-choice. For some questions, you may be asked to choose more than one answer from the list.
Below you will find six tabs. Click on them to read the data, and answer the sample questions.
Arclight collaborates with several companies and corporations worldwide as part of the company’s desire to advance innovation and create an enhanced user experience. Among others, one purpose is to incorporate the knowledge gained from each collaborating company’s products and user experiences into Arclight’s product designs.
Blackcurrant: A leading Japanese cellular phone manufacturer. This collaboration has been on-going for the past decade. As part of the agreement, each company offers discounts on its products to customers of the collaborating company. In addition, there is some cooperation between each company’s respective research departments. Lately, however, some tension has arisen between the companies. Rumours have been swirling in the business world regarding Arclight’s likely venture into the cellular market, and this will put the two companies in direct competition.
Rulerz: A German office supply company. Arclight has previously collaborated with Rulerz in an agreement similar to the Blackcurrant discount, but the relationship between the two has since expanded to collaborating on issues of industrial design.
Comité de Cooperación: A global association based in Spain and founded in 1988. The association’s main function is assuring the legal, creative and financial rights of computer technology-related companies. Arclight has been part of this association for over a decade.
Employees’ pension: All employees are entitled to defined benefit or defined contribution pension plans, with a preference to the latter to guarantee a sustainable pension system for both employees and the company. In countries where defined contribution plans are not possible, optimised defined benefit plans are used to minimise risks.
Currency management: Over the last ten years, Arclight has been reducing currency risks stemming from volatile exchange rates of foreign currencies by using natural hedges to minimise the difference between receipts and payments as much as possible.
Financial statements: Include subsidiaries in which Arclight holds voting rights which provide some measure of control. They must also include companies controlled by Arclight by other means, such as special agreements.
Fiscal year: Is from December 1st to November 30th. All annual financial statements are calculated accordingly.
Arclight remains positive with regard to its future expansion, continuously increasing production while maintaining high quality and profitability.
Risks and uncertainties: Unlike factors affected by external uncertainties such as negative macroeconomic changes, trade interventions, climate change, foreign currencies and changes in consumer behaviour, most risk factors are dealt with internally. Despite rising global uncertainty, Arclight will not be cutting back on its growth plans this year.
Cash flow: In the past two years it has been strong enough to allow venturing into new technologies, which is expected to further strengthen the company’s hold in the market in the near future.
Return on shareholders’ equity: Over the past 10 years, ROE has remained strong, increasing by almost 3% just last year. In order to strengthen this trend, Arclight is planning to reduce the use of redundant resources to increase efficiency.
Arclight is divided into three product groups. Each group has an engineering team, a product design team and administrative personnel, among its various departments. Additionally, the company has a two-tier executive hierarchy, made up of the Board of Directors and the supervising management of each product group.
Storage and Memory Group: This is Arclight’s oldest and currently most profitable group. The products in this group vary in type and price, and target both businesses and private individuals.
Computers Group: This is a relatively new group and represents a completely new market for Arclight. This group appeals mainly to students and private households, but also benefits from a small, yet diverse, clientele in the business community. All groups now utilise the Computers Group’s marketing department, due in part to its popular campaigns, which have made this Arclight’s most recognisable group.
Peripheral Devices Group: This is Arclight’s least known, but fastest growing group. While this group does not have the same brand-name recognition that the other groups enjoy, it has proven to have an overall appeal, with clients ranging from private households to schools and government offices.
Storage and Memory Group: The Storage and Memory Group includes hard drives and disk-on-keys, as well as DVD devices and RAM drivers, among other products. Arclight has been the market leader of these products ever since it developed its trademarked DiskO, over fifteen years ago.
Computers Group: The Computers Group offers laptops and tablets, varying in size and features. Arclight is expected to expand this group to incorporate smartphone manufacturing within the coming year.
Peripheral Devices Group: In this group, Arclight offers computer and cellular phone accessories, such as mice, keyboards and batteries. The prices of these products vary, depending upon changing economic conditions, within a minimal and maximal price range set by Arclight product managers.
Limited Edition Products: Arclight has produced several limited edition products. These include the Arclight Boss Headphone and Arclight Phantom cameras. The company has discontinued production of these products, although they proved to be popular, in order to preserve their exclusivity.
Customer Service: There are several designated emails used to reply customer inquiries and complaints. In addition, the Arclight home page links to a detailed FAQ section, in which customers can receive further information.
Shareholders’ Authority: The Board of Directors must provide shareholders with monthly progress reports and publish them on the company site, as well as through the corporate mailing list. Shareholders have voting rights on major issues and benefit from a portion of the company’s profits.
Shares: Arclight’s shares are officially listed in the British stock exchange in London. Listing the company in the US has been under consideration for a while, with the intention of increasing its stock market cap trading. So far, no decision has been made.
Stock price: After a frustrating year, Arclight’s stock price has finally been steadily growing in the past few months. Experts predict this trend to continue into the next year, seeing as profits have been pushed to new record highs and the company’s market share lead has been extended.
The Arclight Computers Group’s marketing department is effective to the point that it has managed to turn the relatively new group into Arclight’s most recognisable
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The statement mentions the "Computers Group", a section under two tabs: "Organisational Structure" and "Product Segments". Since the statement does not refer to this group's product, we should start with "Organisational Structure".
According to the "Computers Group" section under this tab, "This is a relatively new group […] the Computers Group’s marketing department, due in part to its popular campaigns, which have made this Arclight’s most recognisable group." This means that this group is relatively new and that its marketing department turned it into the most recognisable one. Thus, the statement it TRUE.
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The statement mentions the "Computers" and "Peripheral Devices" groups, both of which are sections under two tabs: "Organisational Structure" and "Product Segments". Since the statement does not refer to this groups product, we should start with "Organisational Structure".
This statement consists of two separate parts. Start with the first one. The "Peripheral Devices Group" section states, "This is Arclight’s least known, but fastest growing group." The phrase "least known" is antonymous to "most recognisable", which means that the first part of the statement is FALSE. Since we know that at least part of the statement is false, we can already deem the entire statement false as well; there is no need to continue to the second part.
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The main goal of this section of the ieGAT exam is to assess your quantitative reasoning skills rather than your knowledge in specific mathematical fields such as geometry or algebra.
In these questions, information is presented in graphs and data tables. You need to read the information, analyze it, and make quick and accurate calculations.
Below you will find six tabs. Click on them to read the data, and answer the two sample questions.
Although taxes increased in January of fiscal year 9 compared with January of the previous fiscal year, sales increased as well, generating higher revenues in January of fiscal year 9.
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Finding the relevant tab for this question may be tricky. The subject of the statement is taxes, sales and profit. "P&L" is the only tab that contains all of these terms and is therefore the correct tab to look at. Remember to analyse the statement before looking for the correct tab; otherwise it may be very misleading. In this case, the word "profit" could have mistakenly led you to the "Growth and Profit" tab.
The table presents a profit and loss report for the month of January in fiscal years (FY) 8 and 9. Since this statement contains three different parts, we will address them one at a time.
First, we need to look for the taxes. Income taxes were 44,977 Euros in January in FY 9, and 43,667 in FY 8. Taxes were higher in FY 9; the first part of the statement is true. Now, let us continue to the second part.
We need to compare sales revenues in both FYs. The first few rows of the table show that both product and service sales were higher in FY 9 than in FY 8, leading to higher operating revenue in FY 9 (1,380,740 versus 1,310,000). The second part of the statement is also true, which means that the entire statement is in fact true.
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The words "asset turnover" imply that the answer to this question is under the "Asset Turnover" tab. The graph presents asset turnover data in three areas across a four-year period, from FY 7 to FY 10. The statement, however, refers to FY 11 as well. At first glance, it may appear that we do not have enough information to answer the question. Nevertheless, while we cannot conclude that the statement is true, we might have just enough information to decide that it is false. Before we answer "Cannot say", we must examine the data we do have.
Look at the UK graph (blue). It continuously decreases throughout FYs 7-9, but then increases in FY 10, which already contradicts the statement. This is enough to allow us to determine that the statement is false.
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This section of the ieGAT exam includes a number of diagrammatic, logical, and abstract reasoning tests in which you are given a series of figures and a symbol representing an operation. Based on the changes you observe in the figure after the symbol, your task is to identify the role of the symbol.
To do this successfully, you must have strong visualization skills and be able to envision multiple shapes at one time.
Please select one correct answer:
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The correct answer is: RMTA --> (1) --> MTA
Explanation:
(3) drops the last letter.
Since (3) drops the last letter that means (2) swaps the last two letters.
Since (2) swaps the last two letters then (1) drops the first letter.
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The ieGAT exam is highly challenging and competitive, and your score is heavily influenced by your level of expertise in answering its unique questions.
That’s why it is important to take this admissions test only after thorough and accurate practice - exactly the type of practice you will find in our ieGAT PrepPack, which includes:
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The ieGAT scoring system is based on the profile of successful IE University graduates, and places the test scores on a Gauss curve that compares the candidate's abilities and skills to top students in all IE University programs.
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In the verbal / numerical reasoning section of the pen & paper format of the ieGAT you will be presented with four economic texts, each followed by nine questions including both verbal reasoning and numerical reasoning questions.
All questions are multiple-choice with four options to choose from, and sometimes there will be more than one correct answer.
In the second section of the admissions test, you are given a variety of logical and abstract reasoning questions (similar to those found in the online version of the test). The number of questions per category in the second section varies, but there are approximately six questions per category.
In total, the test includes four numerical / verbal reasoning sections and four logical thinking sections containing 60 questions, with a time limit of 80 minutes.
In the online version of the ieGAT Test, a facilitator sets up an online chat room, and all test takers are instructed to switch on their computer's camera.
The online version consists of a variety of multiple-choice questions in which you will be given the following options to answer: true, false, or cannot say.
The ieGAT Online Format takes approximately 90 minutes to complete and includes seven sections, each with their own instructions and time constraints:
You need to make all the necessary payments and complete at least 25% of your application before you are allowed to take the test. If these requirements are not met, you will be unable to take the test.
Also, you have 30 days after taking the ieGAT Test to complete your online application and receive your results. If you do not submit your online application on time, you will lose your ieGAT result and will be required to submit alternative test scores.
The ieGAT, or IE Global Admissions Test, is a rigorous entrance exam developed by IE University to assess candidates' cognitive abilities and reasoning skills under strict time constraints.
It spans 80 to 90 minutes without breaks and features 129 questions that test verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning in a random sequence.
This one-time test demands high performance in critical thinking and comprehension of both textual and numerical information, with a scoring system that factors in both speed and accuracy, making thorough preparation essential for success.
The ieGAT, also known as the IE Global Admissions Test, is an admission test developed by IE University to assess candidates' numerical, verbal, and abstract reasoning skills under significant time pressure. Since you can take it only once, the ieGAT exam is highly stressful, and the adaptive difficulty and negative scoring for wrong answers add to its challenge.
The ieGAT exam, also called the IE Global Admissions Test, was developed by IE University and is designed to test cognitive abilities under significant time pressure. It lasts 80 to 90 minutes, with no breaks, and includes 129 questions covering verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning in a randomized order.
While the GMAT requires preliminary knowledge in specific mathematical fields - algebra, geometry, probability and more - the ieGAT test does not, but rather examines your basic arithmetic concepts including the four operations, percentages, and ratios.
The ie Global Admissions Test highly resembles the aptitude tests used by employers, with slight changes In content and context. Therefore, you are likely to encounter tasks similar to those that are given at assessment centers and online screening tests, i.e. numerical critical reasoning, verbal critical reasoning and logical reasoning.
Yes, you can still take the ieGAT exam even if you have already taken the GMAT. When considering applications, the admissions committee accepts all test scores and if you have a valid GMAT score, you should report it when applying for the ieGAT.
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