<p>I'm just curious and bored. It'll be no use to me what-so-ever, but I'd just like to see which out of these six graduate entrance exams is known to be the most notoriously difficult:</p>
<p>1.) GRE - General Grauduate Entrance Exam
2.) GMAT - Busienss School
3.) LSAT - Law School
4.) MCAT - Medical School
5.) PCAT - Pharmacy School
6.) DAT - Dental School</p>
<p>There may be more, but these are all i know :(
Plus I don't know how to make a Poll Thread.</p>
<p>MCAT for sure!</p>
<p>MCAT is far and away the most difficult...</p>
<p>Main reason: it's a lot longer than all the rest. While it's being shortened for next year when it goes on computer, the current paper and pencil version is 5 hours, and 45 minutes of testing. You even get an hour break for lunch. The computerized version will "only" be 4 hours and 20 minutes.</p>
<p>The other reason is that the MCAT asks you to apply knowledge of 4 science subjects. The PCAT and DAT ask for memorization of the same sciences, while the other exams test more general skills and knowledge sets. </p>
<p>The only other graduate school exam that you missed that I'm aware of is the Optometry Admissions Test. It's nearly identicle to the DAT - Kaplan even puts together the classes for most of their centers.</p>
<p>All that said, the tests all have various sections that may be really difficult for individuals not ready for them. The Logic Games on the LSAT and the Perceptual ability tests on the DAT are very different ways of thinking.</p>
<p>I don't think you need a poll to know that MCATs>all.</p>
<p>Yeah, this one is not even close - the MCAT dominates you all (so glad I'm never taking it)</p>
<p>obviously the MCAT</p>
<p>The MCAT without question. I think a better question would be what is second greatest.</p>
<p>i'm an incoming freshman. i didn't know you had to take entrance exams to get into grad school. is this the case for all grad schools?</p>
<p>Just about all that I've heard of. Maybe there might be one that I haven't known that does not require.</p>
<p>so are these entrance exams like the SATs where you can't fail? or do you not get into grad school if you fail the entrance exam?</p>
<p>if there is such importance on grade it really makes you wonder what's the point of even bothering to go thru an application process, if in the end the entrance exam, at least from the sounds of it, determines if you get in or not.</p>
<p>Balems, it's just like SAT.
There is not "Pass" or "Fail".
Each test ranges from 200 to 800.
top business graduate schools like Wharton and Harvard have average GMAT score of 720.
AND it's EXTREMELY difficult to get an 800.</p>
<p>For business schoos, these factors are important (I ordered the list from the most important to the least important):</p>
<p>1.) college GPA
2.) Experience in the real world Business
3.) GMAT score
4.) Essay
5.) Recommendation</p>
<p>correct me if im wrong.</p>
<p>^interview</p>
<p>dhl3, I disagree. </p>
<p>Work experience is always above all. Business schools want to see what you've done since graduating. They want to grab applicants that will add to the environment.</p>
<p>It's evident that grad school is often a mere chance of great networking for many individuals. Academically, almost everyone always passes with strong marks. That and the fact that grad schools often don't even release the grades at the grad school to the employers - signifies that a good portion of the importance of grad school is just merely to network.</p>
<p>Let's say there are two people applying for Wharton Business School.</p>
<p>Person A has a very low GPA (2.5). His GMAT is mediocre with 550, and he wasn't even in any academic honors program during college. However, he had tremendous amount of work experience in a Finance Firm (mainly due to networking) for 7 years, and has accomplished many things, and gained significant amount of respect from the associates.</p>
<p>vs</p>
<p>Person B has a perfect 4.0 GPA and has taken all the hardcore business honors courses. He also has an excellent GMAT score (770) and have gotten many recommendations, including one from the Head of the Business department. However, he has very little to almost no work experience after the graduation.</p>
<p>Which person has a better chance of getting admitted to Wharton?</p>
<p>Thank god I'm not taking the MCAT....yay GMAT</p>
<p>Person A. </p>
<p>The fact is the relation between academic intelligence and actual success do not always correlate. Person A obviously has proved himself in the real world - his work experiences speak for himself. That and the fact that he was worked for 7 years, has accomplished many things, and has built a strong network speak for themselves that he has the qualities that succeed in a business environment.</p>
<p>Person B has only merely proven that he is book-smart. He'll serve as a great backroom calculator I'm sure, but that's not what Wharton is looking for.</p>
<p>I'm feeling you might disagree - but if you look at the acceptances based on almost no work experience, there are almost none. </p>
<p>Harvard and Wharton essays word it so basically it comes out to a question like this. </p>
<p>"Why are you now so talented that you pratically don't need to get an MBA?"</p>
<p>Business schools even more than undergraduates arn't looking for nerds, they're looking for charming charismatic individuals.</p>
<p>Ugh, they are overhauling the GRE and completely changing the grading scale.</p>
<p>Really? Is it just the general GRE or the subject GRE tests as well? How are they changing the scale?</p>
<p>go to princetonreview.com and they explain how they are changing the overall GRE. They are getting rid of synonyms and antonyms and adding more CR. They are also doing less geometry and are changing the grading scale so its out of like 150 on each subject and not 800</p>