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by hs
6134 days ago
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"A perfect 800 on GRE math is just 87th percentile." percentile of what? of general population or of those who took GRE? i assume the latter is much more accurate, a perfect 800 on GRE math equals to 87th percentile only means that test is way too easy for most engineers maybe a perfect 800 on GMAT math is 99th, i don't know, but if so, that only means the test is way too hard for most business-guys (assumption: GMAT percentile is based on GMAT takers) anyway it's hard to imagine that tests for engineer is easier than tests for business-guys. i have my own bias of course. |
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The GMAT is a computerized, adaptive test. I have no idea what the math is like on the GRE but the math on the GMAT doesn't get much trickier than algebra and geometry. A lot of the questions involved deciding whether or not the problem gave you enough information to solve it. It would give you two sets of information and you'd have to pick between something a long the lines of:
Info A is enough to decide Info B is enough to decide Info A & B combined is enough to decide Info A & B combined is not enough info to decide
So even in the "quantitative" section you still need to apply some amount of logic and reason and not just solve equations.
I know engineers who did relatively bad on the GMAT quantitative and folks from degrees that aren't so math oriented who did well on it.
I'd guess that GRE math is a lot more straight forward.