<p>Anybody take both? How did they compare?</p>
<p>I'd guess that GRE is a joke compared to GMAT.</p>
<p>i've taken both and i found the GMAT to be much easier</p>
<p>If you are analytically (sp?) gifted, then I think you will find the GMAT to be easier. If not, and your gift is verbal, then I suspect that the GRE might be easier. I am analytically gifted, but also good verbally, and scored about the same percentile on both.</p>
<p>Really ? So why people advise to take whole months to revise GMAT ? Because for GRE, basically you need to revise the verbal aspect but not so much for the subject part (for maths I heard it wasn't so difficult to get 100%)...</p>
<p>Thanks for correcting me on that.</p>
<p>I would imagine the GMAT is a joke compared to the GRE. </p>
<p>But I don't actually know.</p>
<p>I hear the math is very simple on the GMAT (almost SAT-like). I think it's easier overall.</p>
<p>Hey, I noticed the "new" GRE has this writing-assessment thing. What happened to the old 'Analytical' section (I took the GRE 11 years ago)? Did they take that away?</p>
<p>And I would assume both GMAT and GRE are jokes compared to the MCAT (which tests subject knowledge) or LSAT (too many logic puzzles!)...</p>
<p>I got 79th percentile on the GMAT (41st percentile math, 97th percentile verbal, 650 overall) and 90th percentile on the GRE (80th percentile math, 99th percentile verbal, 1460 overall).</p>
<p>I’m very verbal and terrible at quant stuff…</p>
<p>so I guess GMAT is more for liberal people, GRE more for science people</p>
<p>ilovebagels can you share how much you got on GRE’s verbal and AW? thanks</p>
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<p>Huh? Did you mean more for humanities people? Even so, that’s wrong. The GMAT tests aptitude for business. The GRE tests more broadly. No one planning to study anything academic, from English to chemistry, takes the GMAT; it is a professional school test.</p>
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<p>Verbal: 720
AWA: don’t know yet (I only took the test on 1/19…same day the HBS app was due, hehe)</p>
<p>Oddly the computer testing center I used here in India (Prometric) gave me my numeric scores on the spot, but didn’t give me the percentiles on the spot. So I extrapolated from what the Kaplan and PR books said and my verbal score is 98th or 99th percentile. I am very happy because I did even better than I did on the less-difficult GMAT verbal, when I got 97th percentile.</p>
<p>The GRE has the more difficult verbal, but easier math, in my opinion. In fact, the GRE is pretty worthless for Math in engineering. Most applicants score 770+ meaning that it’s difficult to differentiate them. The problem seems to be timing: the GMAT makes you more pressed for time on math problems, while the GRE is a more relaxed pace.</p>