ari.banerjee
Haha a 195$ GMAT fee would be awsome.
You are right the GMAT is significantly shorter than the GRE, which has two essays and an experimental section in its home edition, making it a 4+ hr long exam.
Yes, the 7 sections of the GRE (2 30-min essays, 2 30-min Verbal sections, 2 35-minute Quant sections, and 1 30/35 minute experimental section) add up to about
3 hours and 45 minutes (or 3 hours and 40 minutes if your experimental section is Verbal) of testing time.
Add the 10-minute break after the first two multiple-choice sections, and the 1-minute break between the final 3 sections (which can actually be extended longer than 1 minute, if you so choose), and the GRE takes 4 hours to complete.