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GRE: Postgraduate Achievement Examination, American Postgraduate Entrance Examination. The graduate students referred to here, including master students and doctoral students, refer to graduate students in all majors except American teachers' colleges, business schools and medical schools; Refers to those who have completed full-time education and obtained corresponding degrees in the graduate schools of regular universities in the United States, excluding all kinds of dazzling exchange students and visiting scholars.
The United States mainly applies! Universities in other regions, including European countries, Britain, Canada and Australia and New Zealand, do not need GRE scores for the admission of graduate students and doctoral students in most universities (except for particularly excellent university programs, you know, submitting GRE scores may be used as a bonus item).
Gmat: Graduate Management Entrance Examination, Graduate Management Science Entrance Examination. Not just for America. Business schools of thousands of universities in the world, like independent business schools, all require GMAT scores (the worse the quality, the less they need it) or, although there is no requirement, if they can submit them, they will be regarded as extra points (for example, cheung kong graduate school of business in China, China Europe Business School and Shanghai Jiaotong University Business School). It can be used to apply for China, which is better than China's own MBA entrance examination).
Examination content
1: Validity period
GRE: You can take the exam five times a year with an interval of more than 20 days. Valid for 5 years.
GMAT: You can take the exam five times a year, with an interval of more than 16 days. Valid for 5 years.
Summary: The designer of the exam thinks that after five years, an adult's logic and speculative ability will be at the same level.
2. Question and time comparison
GRE: 2 analytical writing articles, mathematics and Chinese (sentence filling, article reading and synonym filling). The whole exam takes less than 4 hours.
GMAT: 65,438+0 Analytical writing articles, comprehensive reasoning questions (which can be regarded as a hodgepodge of mathematics and Chinese), mathematics, Chinese (article reading, essay logic and sentence correction). The whole exam takes less than 4 hours.
Summary: As a postgraduate entrance examination, both of them examine logical and critical thinking ability, not just English! GRE mathematics takes an average of 1.75 minutes, and GMAT mathematics takes an average of 2 minutes, but the difficulty of GRE mathematics is much lower than GMAT mathematics. The GRE language part has an average of one question 1.5 minutes, and the GMAT language part has an average of one question 1.75 minutes. The GRE language requires a faster answer.
3. Comparison of the actual examination mechanism
GRE: The current GRE implements computer test. Mathematics and Chinese are divided into two groups. The performance of the first group will affect the difficulty of the second group and the students' grades.
GMAT: computer test. In the math and Chinese parts of GMAT, various problems appear in disorder. The previous sentence is corrected, and the next question may be logic. Each GMAT question will directly affect the difficulty of the next question. . . The answer is correct, and the difficulty of the next question rises; Wrong answer, the next question is less difficult. This form is called a complete adaptive test, which tests the examinee's nerves in minutes. I like it.
Conclusion: Doing a few difficult problems wrong may get higher scores than doing the same number of simple problems right. But first you must be able to solve this problem. When you encounter more and more problems, it means that you are going uphill, but at the same time it is more difficult to do it right; The problem is getting simpler and easier, which shows that big things are not good.
Ah, I like this kind of postgraduate exam in America very much. Because it perfectly simulates real life, right? )
Especially those students who are interested in business school, you shoulder the mission of future business leaders. Dealing with GMAT, which needs minutes to make decisions, seems to be a warm-up for dealing with the rapidly changing market in the future. ~
4. Basic requirements of candidates
GRE: Fluent in reading basic English (listening, speaking and not asking); If the vocabulary reaches 1000 to 1000, you can try the test. If you want to get high marks, your vocabulary is not capped. Candidates should have rich knowledge of western literature, history and philosophy and humanistic reading habits, and are not very resistant to abstract articles about literature, history and philosophy.
GMAT: Fluent in reading basic English (listening, speaking and not asking); Try to test if your vocabulary reaches TOEFL 8k or above; It is best for candidates to have business knowledge and business English foundation: for students at school, the habit of interviewing, internship and reading business weekly in foreign companies is helpful to cultivate relevant awareness.