The criteria for most business schools in the world is through the marks GMAT and GRE. GRE stands for Graduate Record Examinations General Test and GMAT stands for the Graduate Management Admission Test. Both the tests are considered equally competitive and none of them is given a preference over the other. Here are their differences-
Structure
GRE consists of one hour-long analytical writing section with two 30-minute writing tasks; two 35-minute quantitative reasoning sections; two 30-minute verbal reasoning sections; one unscored section with a varying number of experimental questions whereas GMAT consists of one 30-minute analytical writing assessment; one 30-minute integrated reasoning section; one 62-minute quantitative reasoning section; one 65-minute verbal reasoning section.
The amount of time given for a GRE exam is three hours and 45 minutes whereas for GMAT three hours and 30 minutes are given.
The cost of the test varies as per the place and the time around which you are appearing for the test. For GRE it's $205 in most parts of the world but higher in China and India. For GMAT it depends upon the country but in general, it is around $275.
You may choose between both of them as per the skills that you specialize in as well as the university that you want to get into. Some universities want a particular test precisely. Also, think of the career goal that you have and now figure out which of these tests would be beneficial in going towards it.
