GMAT or GRE? Which one is easier?

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Can you apply to business schools with a GRE?

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I appreciate that @Booz1 admitted to being bad at quant and said "80% percentile"

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Yep schools accept both

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GMAT for quantitative peeps; GRE for qualitative peeps

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@DD2: I guess that's another possible explanation -- I'd assumed there were fewer people getting perfect scores and shifting the curve on the GMAT due to the difficulty level, but test population (if true) would double the effect. I also did much better on the GMAT, FWIW

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Thats a completely mediocre score

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Oh cool

I sucked at the quant though- 80% percentile

Good thing im not interested in business school!

Cosign what @IBM1 said. GMAT quantitative is relatively more difficult than the GRE, while the verbal section relies less on vocab so you never really have a situation where you aren't able to reason your way to an answer. Pick the test that plays to your strengths, although if it's a dead heat between the tests I'd say go with the GMAT as it's the more traditional B-school test (assuming you're going the B-school route)

GMAT quant is technically harder, but statistically easier to score higher IMO. I think GRE has more internationals taking it, so the quant curve is tougher. This is all conjecture of course. I've taken both and that's my conclusion! Scored way higher on GMAT

@dd1 cosign the cosign statement. 🙌🏼 -another fellow DDer

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