Saturday, 30 July 2011

GRE and GMAT

Indian students who aspire to study abroad always face a confusion. Should they take the GMAT and GRE. While both exams are very popular and widely acceptable in foreign universities, you should make the correct choice as your future depends on it.What is the main difference between the GMAT and GRE? There are many important factors like format of both tests, Best B schools in india perceptions behind them, advantages of exam, the preparation behind them  and how to score good in these exams.Generally, the GMAT exam predicts how apt a candidate is for a particular management programme on the other hand the GRE assess your skills for the programmes in science streams, medicine, literature , mathematics and other course except law programmes.Both the exams GRE and GMAT have been designed for a native English speaker, according to that foreigner is at an immediate disadvantage, mainly in verbal section.
                                        
 The GMAT has for some time been accepted as main admission criteria for securing a seat into any business schools. The GMAT is designed to assess the verbal, mathematical and analytical skills that the candidate has acquired during his/her education and at work place.But the exam does not test some specific knowledge related to business, job skills or subjective qualities such as motivation, creativity and interpersonal skills. In this exam if your maiden language is not English, he or she may still have fair chance to score high in this exam.The GRE assesses the extent to which undergraduate education has developed a student's verbal and quantitative skills in abstract thinking. For a student who belongs to a non-English speaking country, the GRE requires a far wider knowledge of vocabulary, writing skills and general subjects than the GMAT. Without good English and writing skills it is not possible to score high in GRE exam. So it is advisable for non-English speakers, it always good to take GMAT in place of GRE.

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