Official List of GMAT Club Acronyms and Abbreviations:

GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Test
GMAC - Graduate Management Admission Council
CAT - Computer Adaptive Test
AWA - Analytical Writing Assessment
IR - Integrated Reasoning

OG - Official Guide for GMAT Review. A study guide published by the GMAT Test creators. It is the only authentic source of gmat type questions. I suspect that the questions have changes too much in flavor compared to the real Test, but still the OG remains a very helpful resource

Challenges - Math Challenges - GMAT Club's Tests:
http://gmatclub.com/wiki/GMAT_Tests

DS - Data Sufficiency
PS - Problem Solving

RC - Reading Comprehension
CR - Critical Reasoning
BF CR - Bold Face Critical Reasoning
SC - Sentence Correction

OA - Official Answer for a question
OE - Official Explanation

GCD - Greatest Common Divisor
HCF - Same as GCD: Highest Common Factor
LCM - Lowest Common Multiple

Other acronyms

BW - Business Week Forum
b/w - Between
IC - Independent Clause
DC - Dependent Clause
OT - Off Topic
POE - Process of Elimination
PR - Princeton Review
PM - Private Message
ROI - Return On Investment

AFAIK - As Far As I Know
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
BTW - By The Way
FYI - For Your Information
GFN - Gone For Now
GTSY - Glad To See You
IC - I See
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
JTLYK - Just To Let You Know
KIT - Keep In Touch
L8R - Later
OTTOMH - Off The Top of My Head
SYS - See You Soon
TA - Thanks Again
TTYL - Talk To you Later
WB - Welcome Back


MBA-related

• HSW - Harvard/Stanford/Wharton
• MBB - McKinsey, BCG, Bain
• MC - Management Consulting
• PE - Private Equity
• WE - Work Experience

AWA : Analytical Writing Assessment

GMAT = Graduate Management Aptitude Test
GMAC = Graduate Management Admission Council



Ketan

What is IMO??

PP - Power Prep
PR - Princeton Review

Thanks,
Moorthi

PM = personal mail. sounds good?

PM = private message (on most forums that I've frequented).

OT=off topic
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Keep on asking, and it will be given you;
keep on seeking, and you will find;
keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you.

does someone knows the meaning of this abbreviation?

BF CR

thank you a lot

Sometimes I have seen b/w in many posts. What does that mean?