GRE is more effective than GMAT: Let's see why!

By Madiha Jawed

GRE (Graduate Record Examination) and GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) are the two most talked about entrance exams in recent times and contentions too have been made as why GRE is more effective that GMAT. In the rampant times, there have been talks about and apprehensions revealed concerning the challenges faced by aspirants in taking entrance examinations. Moreover, there have been altercations made regarding a better option amongst various entrance exams.

GRE test has been estimated as a student friendly exam accompanied with being more effective over GMAT. The GRE test has undergone a change of pattern which focuses primarily on endorsing out -of- the- box -thinking being the USP of the same, ensuring a reduction in gorging the test takers.

Here are some of the reasons why GRE is more effective than GMAT:

• Gradual increase in the popularity of GRE
• GRE is less expensive
• More accessibility considering the number of test centers in the country for GRE
• Supposed to be student friendly
• Offers a better test taking experience compared to GMAT.

With the gradual and steady increase in the number of test takers, the popularity, accessibility and acceptability of GRE across the world would certainly augment.

New GRE Exam Pattern

The revised GRE Exam pattern shows quite a bundle of student friendly augmentations inclusive of on-screen calculators to tranquilize the mathematical calculations consorting with the flexibility of going back and forth between sections as per time. Convenience and level of difficulty too is tackled with.

The changes though were made to make the test takers feel at ease by spawning the exam to be convenient, satisfactory and student friendly. The efforts though can very well be seen comprising the fact that aspirant for the GRE test has increased.

The Educational testing services team too has played a vital role by initiating a revolution for changing the face of entrance exams in the years to come. Taking the global perspective into consideration, quiet a handful of expert tips and suggestions are available in this regard.

The primary reasons for making a change in the GRE pattern are:

• To enhance the ability of skill testing to make it easier for the subscriber of the test to understand the test taker and get closer to the skills he possesses.
• For abstracting void questions from the Verbal Reasoning section and making it more accessible and necessary from a graduate point of view.
• The current pattern ensured that test takers can skip a question and move to the next one and come back to the skipped ones, whenever time permits, which couldn't actually be done in the previous patterns.
• Keeping in mind the ability of different test takers to solve the questions, a computer based test is revolutionized, receptive to the user's skills and ability that clearly meets his intellectual skills.
• For instance, if the student fails to solve the question, the computer will automatically note the same make a note of this and step down one level to meet their intelligence and abilities.
• For reducing the ranking and making the scoring system friendly which would further make the students feel at ease with their performance report.
• A paper based test too has been introduced including questions of all types of difficulty levels permitting the aspirants to answer questions which they are capable of answering, as devising 1000 different sets of papers for various test takers would be impossible.

These changes have thus made the test quite result oriented and the adaptive nature of the test has given way to convenience, making it more student-friendly!

Simulation is the basic idea of the future entrance examination and similar tests would be conducted for subjects like chemistry, physics and other applied sciences with the aim of creating a simulation laboratory environment abounded with apparatus and skill testing devices. The aspirants will be tested for their skills relevant and specific to the interested field of study. The possibility of having an immersive 3D environment accompanied with 3G technology is also on the cards.

This future of exams is here and the future is certainly simulation!

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