How buisness specific is the gmat?

Question

im an electrical engineer, never took a buisness class, wondering how difficult it would be to study for the gmat without any buisness terminology and training.

Answer 1

It's not really.

The essays may have a business focus, but not so much that you need to know specific "business" terminology. It may help if you have a general sense of how profits are made, but that's about it.

The math section will have a few word problems that relate to some sort of business/finance situations (salaries, sale prices, numbers of employees, interest rates), but again, all you need is some logic. (If you're an engineer, you shouldn't need to worry about the math section anyway.)

The verbal (multiple-choice) section has three parts, sentence correction, reading comprehension and critical reasoning. For the sentence correction, you're probably actually better off not being well-versed in "business-speak" because it tends not to be the best English. For the reading, you'll probably have four passages, of which one or two will be business-related. For those, you may be at somewhat of a disadvantage without business training, but if you study for the GMAT you should get a good-enough sense of the right answers. You'll also be way ahead if you happen to get a physics passage (one passage is a science topic (the other is a humanities topic)). For the critical reasoning, again, there are a few business-themed paragraphs for which you'll have to break down the reasoning, but really, a logical mind is far more important than any business training.