What is GRE?

GRE stands for General Record Examination administered by Education Testing Service (ETS). GRE is taken by students pursuing higher education and scholarships in top ranking educational institutions of the world. There are two types of GRE Test: GRE General and GRE Subject.

GRE General: Who takes it?

Prospective applicants from around the world who are interested in pursuing a master's, specialized master's in business, MBA, JD or doctoral degree take the GRE General Test. GRE scores are used by admissions or fellowship panels to supplement your undergraduate records, recommendation letters and other qualifications for graduate-level study. They provide schools with a common measure for comparison. The GRE General Test is accepted at thousands of graduate, business and law schools.

GRE Subject: Who takes them?

Prospective graduate school applicants take the Subject Tests. Applicants come from varying educational and cultural backgrounds, and the GRE Subject Tests provide a common measure for comparing candidates' qualifications. GRE Subject Test scores are used by admissions or fellowship panels to supplement your undergraduate records, recommendation letters and other qualifications for graduate-level study. Some Subject Tests yield subscores that can indicate the strengths and weaknesses in an individual test taker's preparation and may also be useful for guidance and placement purposes. GRE Subject Test scores are accepted by thousands of graduate schools, including individual departments or divisions within these schools.

GRE General Test Content

The GRE General Test is a computer-delivered test that features question types that closely reflect the kind of thinking you’ll do — and the skills you need to succeed — in today's demanding graduate school programs, including business and law. The test-taker friendly design lets you skip questions within a section, go back and change answers and have the flexibility to choose which questions within a section you want to answer first. Get a look at the structure of the GRE General Test.

The GRE General Test measures your verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking and analytical writing skills — skills that have been developed over a long period of time and are not related to a specific field of study but are important for all. Here's a look at content covered in the three test sections: Analytical Writing, Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning.

Analytical Writing: This section measures your ability to

• Articulate complex ideas clearly and effectively
• Support ideas with relevant reasons and examples
• Examine claims and accompanying evidence
• Sustain a well-focused, coherent discussion
• Control the elements of standard written english

The Analytical Writing section requires you to provide focused responses based on the tasks presented, so you can accurately demonstrate your skill in directly responding to a task.

Verbal Reasoning: This section measures your ability to

• Analyze and draw conclusions from discourse; reason from incomplete data; identify author's assumptions and/or perspective; understand multiple levels of meaning, such as literal, figurative and author's intent
• Select important points; distinguish major from minor or irrelevant points; summarize text; understand the structure of a text
• Understand the meaning of individual words, sentences and entire texts; understand relationships among words and among concepts

Quantitative Reasoning: This section measures your ability to

• Understand, interpret and analyze quantitative information
• Solve problems using mathematical models
• Apply basic skills and elementary concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis

The Quantitative Reasoning section includes an on-screen calculator.

GRE General Test Structure and Scoring Pattern

The overall testing time for the GRE® General Test is about three hours and 45 minutes. There are six sections with a 10-minute break following the third section.

An unidentified unscored section that does not count toward your score may be included and may appear in any order after the Analytical Writing section. Questions in the unscored section are being tried out either for possible use in future tests or to ensure that scores on new editions of the test are comparable to scores from earlier editions.

An identified research section that does not count toward your score may be included in place of the unscored section. The research section will always appear at the end of the test. Questions in this section are included for ETS research purposes.

If no questions are answered for a specific measure (e.g., Verbal Reasoning), then you will receive a No Score (NS) for that measure. Your GRE General Test Score will be available to you in your ETS account in about 10-15 days after your test date. ETS will also send your official Institution Score Report to the institutions that you have selected on the test date. The expected score by education institutions, field of studies, and majors/minors will differ, our EdyFlyHigh Admission Counselor will guide you with the expected score during Profiling and Prerequisites Evaluation.

GRE Subject Tests Content

The GRE Subject Tests are achievement tests that measure your knowledge of a particular field of study. Each Subject Test is intended for students who have an undergraduate major or extensive background in one of the following disciplines:

• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Psychology

The GRE Subject Tests are administered in a paper-delivered format. The total testing time is 2 hours and 50 minutes. There are no separately timed sections.

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