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Business School

Traditionally, the standard test for admission to MBA and other graduate

management programs has been the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission

Test) However, many of these programs now accept GRE scores as well, so

applicants can choose between the two tests In 2008, at least 134 graduate

business schools (116 in the United States and 18 outside the United States)

accepted GRE scores, and this number is expected to increase significantly over

time

According to Educational Testing Service (ETS), which designs and

admin-isters the GRE (but not the GMAT), by embracing the GRE a graduate

business school greatly enhances the size and diversity of its applicant pool

Indeed, it has been demonstrated that women, international students, and

double-major students are more likely to take the GRE than the GMAT The

additional diversity that these groups bring to classrooms helps explain why

MBA programs that seek to enrich and enliven their student body are

embracing the GRE in increasing numbers

At its official GRE Web site (www.gre.org), ETS provides a list of MBA

programs that officially accept GRE scores Keep in mind, however, that this

list may not be up-to-the-minute and that some schools may not publicize that

they accept GRE scores Additionally, some MBA programs that do not accept

GRE scores as a rule nevertheless will make individual exceptions—for

example, for applicants in regions where the GMAT is unavailable In any

event, if you seek admission to a particular MBA program and are considering

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tests assume), neither the GRE nor the GMAT attempt to test any specific knowledge area This means that you don’t need any coursework in finance or accounting to perform well on the GMAT, nor do you need to take an archaeology or English literature class to score high on the GRE

Testing procedures and mechanics are virtually the same for both tests The GRE and GMAT are both administered by computer and are computer-adaptive, meaning that they conform to your individual ability level on the fly For both tests, a paper-based version is offered in regions where the computerized testing system is unavailable Neither test is inherently more difficult than the other The methodology for evalu-ating and scoring the essays (the Analytical Writing section) is essentially the same for both, and research by ETS shows that scaled Quantitative Ability and Verbal Ability scores for the GRE convert reliably to scaled GMAT scores In fact, at the official GRE Web site (www.gre.org), ETS provides a GRE-to-GMAT score conversion chart

KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GRE AND GMAT

Despite their similarities, certain differences between the GRE and the GMAT should not be ignored, especially by applicants who must choose between the two tests To begin with, the registration fee is lower for the GRE than for the GMAT (the difference, currently $110, is subject to change) Also, the GRE is offered in more cities and countries than the GMAT As for the tests themselves, although they are quite similar overall, each test contains some unique question types that distinguish it from the other,

as the following table suggests

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GRE Format

Analytical Writing (75 min.)

• Issue Perspective (1 essay,

45 min.)

• Argument Analysis (1 essay,

30 min.)

Quantitative Reasoning (45 min.)

• Problem Solving (14 questions)

• Quantitative Comparison

(14 questions)

Verbal Reasoning (30 min.)

• Reading Comprehension

(8 questions)

• Analogies (9 questions)

• Antonyms (7 questions)

• Sentence and Text Completion

(6 questions)

Unscored Section (30–45 min.)

• Either Quantitative Reasoning

or Verbal Reasoning

GMAT Format

Analytical Writing (60 min.)

• Issue Analysis (1 essay, 30 min.)

• Argument Analysis (1 essay, 30 min.) Quantitative Ability (75 min.)

• Problem Solving (22–23 questions)

• Data Sufficiency (14–15 questions) Verbal Ability (75 min.)

• Reading Comprehension (12–13 questions)

• Sentence Correction (14–15 questions)

• Critical Reasoning (14–15 questions)

The most significant difference between the two tests lies in how they measure verbal

abilities Although the Reading Comprehension format is essentially the same on both

exams, this is where the close resemblance ends The GRE places far more emphasis on

vocabulary, both out-of-context (Analogies and Antonyms) and in-context (Sentence

Completion), while the GMAT focuses much more on critical reasoning and on

identify-ing and correctidentify-ing problems in grammar, sentence structure, and idiom (Sentence

Correction)

As for their Analytical Writing components, the Argument Analysis task is essentially the same for both the GRE and the GMAT However, the GRE Issue Analysis task differs from its GMAT counterpart in three respects:

• The GRE imposes a 45-minute time limit, compared with the GMAT’s more strict 30-minute limit

• GRE test takers choose between two Issue topics; GMAT test takers are not offered

a choice

• The range of Issue topics in the GRE pool (from which two topics are randomly selected and presented to each test taker) is much broader than that of the GMAT pool GRE Issues embrace the entire spectrum of topics that are of general academic interest to college and university students; the topics in the GMAT pool focus more

on business issues (especially management, leadership, organizational skills, and ethics)

WHICH TEST (GRE OR GMAT) SHOULD YOU TAKE?

Of course, the answer to this question is not the same for each and every aspiring graduate business student As the preceding discussion suggests, whether you should take the GRE or the GMAT depends on your own answers to the following questions:

• Do my top-choice business schools accept GRE scores?

• Is the registration fee an issue?

• Are both tests available where I live or attend school?

• Am I interested exclusively in business education, or do I have alternative or additional academic aspirations?

• Am I likely to perform better on one test than the other, given what I know about their differences?

If you’re still not sure which test you should take after answering these questions, consider taking them both—assuming, of course, that you can adequately prepare for both and can afford both registration fees

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NOTE

The folks at ETS who design the

GRE have been considering

incorporating Critical

Reasoning questions into the

test and eliminating Analogies

and Antonyms So sometime in

the future, the GRE might look

even more like the GMAT.

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