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May be it sounds stupid but I am just curious to know if location has any effect on the questions posted ON GMAT. Does the level of difficulty vary with the test centers located at various countries? For example, let us consider Scandivavia and India: Do the applicants in both countries face questions with the same level of diificulty and is there any relation between GMAT score and the country where one takes the exam?
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in my opinion this assumption doesn't hold
think about it, the gmat is used to have a standard that the schools use to compare between the applicants, therefore if the difficulty of the questions varies among geographical locations, then the exam would not be credible and unfair.
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May be it sounds stupid but I am just curious to know if location has any effect on the questions posted ON GMAT. Does the level of difficulty vary with the test centers located at various countries? For example, let us consider Scandivavia and India: Do the applicants in both countries face questions with the same level of diificulty and is there any relation between GMAT score and the country where one takes the exam?
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It matters only when you have such misconceptions. Concentrate on your studies and Mock tests. Leave everything else for the computer adaptive test.

Gmat is same for each n every applicants of the world.
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GMAC can't afford to discriminate!!
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It's always fun to speculate about things that can't be established with certainty one way or the other ! :wink:

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It's always fun to speculate about things that can't be established with certainty one way or the other ! :wink:

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It happens, but we should concentrate on other important things.
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May be it sounds stupid but I am just curious to know if location has any effect on the questions posted ON GMAT. Does the level of difficulty vary with the test centers located at various countries? For example, let us consider Scandivavia and India: Do the applicants in both countries face questions with the same level of diificulty and is there any relation between GMAT score and the country where one takes the exam?

It matters only when you have such misconceptions. Concentrate on your studies and Mock tests. Leave everything else for the computer adaptive test.

Gmat is same for each n every applicants of the world.
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Gr8 to knw that. I never said its not. I was simply curious to know if there is even a chance that location plays a factor in the GMAT. Its not a misconception but a simple question out of curiousity.
And the reason for my curiousity was the fact that GMAT is not so popular in Scandinavia as opposed to some Asian countries like India, China.
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Yah thats absolutely correct. I have been slogging for the GMAT for the past several days and got really bored, so decided to post something that may turn out be speculative and controversial, apart from being a little stupid :)
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Hi shekharvineet,

This is actually a common question! Our CEO did a whole blog post about a similar topic - i.e. whether the GMAT is India is more different than in the US and Canada. Here's an excerpt from the question he received and the post he did about it (you can check out the whole thing by clicking here):
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I wanted to take some time to dispel a fascinating—but unhealthy—rumor about the GMAT. This rumor is best summarized by a concerned Knewton student who wrote me the following:

I was speaking to someone in India in the test prep industry about the GMAT and that person seemed very confident that the database of questions for the GMAT test in India is different from the database of questions in the US and Canada (the pool of questions in India being harder). Have you heard anything like this?

And here is how I responded:

You’ve touched upon some topics that interest me a great deal, so let me give you a longer answer.

The test-makers have always used multiple question pools at any one time, even within the United States. This is done for security reasons, so questions can’t be pirated... Question pools rotate every few months. Pools used internationally either just came from and/or will soon head back to North America. These pools are all (almost) perfectly calibrated with each other so that your score on one continent will be—within the margin of error—your score on another.

...

Schools are trying to increase their international exposure, not decrease it. Harvard Business School grads occupy one of the top three positions at something like fifty percent of U.S. Fortune 500 companies. With India and China developing rapidly, HBS and other top schools are eager—even desperate—to mirror that dominance in Indian and Chinese companies. Take my word for it—having gone to HBS and seen their admissions practices firsthand (as well as their legendary habit of nickel and diming their students!)—Harvard Business School is as much or more about Business than it is about School. HBS is, at its core, a factory churning out top business leaders. Those leaders then turn around and give generously to the endowment. That’s the model all B-schools operate under, and it only works if they admit whoever they think will be the most successful.
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I agree that these kinds of topics can be interesting to debate and talk about! I just figured I'd weigh in with some more info if you were interested. Good luck with your studying. :)
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