GMAT全称是Graduate Management Admission Test，中文名称为管理研究生入学考试。GMAT 考试不仅考查考生的语言思维能力和数学能力，还要测试其头脑反应、逻辑思维和解决实际问题的能力。一般而言，GMAT 考试能较真实地反映应试者的思维水平，因而受到越来越多的学校和专业的重视与好评。目前，全世界共有近千所大学采用GMAT 考试。
其实，GMAT 考试考查的不是英语语言水平而是逻辑思维能力，换句话说GMAT 是以英语为载体的一种逻辑思维的考查，考查考生是否已经具备了学商科的基本能力和情商。
记得芮成钢在采访耶鲁大学校长时，说过这样一句话“一个人被公司雇佣是因为这个人的智商，一个人被公司解聘是因为这个人的情商”。其实，GMAT 考试可以很好地和日后的工作能力及情商相联系起来。例如，在GMAT 阅读中G 可以指代Goal(目的)， 包括整个篇章的目的(The primary purpose of the passage is to...)、段落的目的(The last
paragraph performs which of the following function?)和短语/ 句子的目的(The author mentions the phrase “ZHB” in order to...?)。从篇章到段落、段落到短语或句子的目的，可以看到要求考生在读文章时一定要先宏观再微观，即先整体抓住文章的宏观结构，再去看文章的细节。这样读文章，可以在短时间内抓住重点段落，采取重点段落重点阅读，非重点段落一般性浏览阅读的策略，在短暂的考试时间内提取最为有效的考试信息。在公 司中，作为一位成功的CEO 一定要先对公司的整体发展有整体的战略目标，然后再去关注细节部分。请看下面的文章：
Conventional wisdom has it that large deficits in the United States budget cause interest rates to rise. Two main arguments are given for this claim. According to the first, as the deficit increases, the government will borrow more to make up for the ensuing shortage of funds. Consequently, it is argued, if both the total supply of credit (money available for borrowing) and the amount of credit sought by nongovernment borrowers remain relatively stable, as is often supposed, then the price of credit (the interest rate) will increase. That this is so suggested by the basic economic principle that if supplies of a commodity (here, credit) remain fixed and demand for that commodity increases, its price will also increase. The second argument supposes that the government will tend to finance its deficits by increasing the money supply with insufficient regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation. It is then argued that financiers will expect the deficit to cause inflation and will raise interest rates, anticipating that because of inflation the money they lend will be worth less when paid back.
Unfortunately for the first argument, it is unreasonable to assume that nongovernment borrowing and the supply of credit will remain relatively stable. Nongovernment borrowing sometimes decreases. When it does, increased government borrowing will not necessarily push up the total demand for credit. Alternatively, when credit availability increases, for example, through greater foreign lending to the United States, then interest rates need not rise, even if both private and government borrowing increase.