Graduate Record Exam (GRE)

GRE test is designed to test fundamental verbal mathematical and writing skills that a student is expected to have gained during undergraduate studies.

The GRE is administered exclusively as a computer adaptive test, or CAT the GRE is taken on computer at special testing centers located throughout the U. S. and around the world. The exam is developed by the educational testing service (ETS) based in the US. ETS has been working for more than so years to design tests that help to advance quality and equity in education worldwide. The ETS has come up with some new changes in the exam pattern to make it more students friendly. Now the new pattern will allow the college to evaluate their prospective students in better way.

The GRE R board overseas GRE test, services and research in consultation with its committees. At establishes all policies for the GRE R program which ETS R administers.

Included in your test registration fee, ETS will send your GRE scores to four universities chosen by you. Additional score reports can be ordered for a small fee. Scores for the GRE revised general test include.

•  Total GRE score – maximum marks allotted are 340
•  Sectional scores (for verbal and quantitative sections) maximum marks allotted are 170 for each section.
•  Analytical writing assessment score: it is scored separately on a scale of 0 - 6 based on the overall impact of the essays written by a student.
•  % below: this represents the percentage of examinees who appeared in GRE exams in the most recent 3 years period and scored fess than you.

Important: the test score of the test are valid for five years.

New Changes in the GRE Revised General Test:

ETS has improved the test in many significant ways to give students a better test experience and to better demonstrate your skills and readiness for graduate level work:

A New Task–Taker Friendly Design:

In this new format the computer based test allows students to edit or change their answer and skip questions all within a section, and use an on – screen calculator.

New Types of Questions:

In the verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning section many questions are based on real life scenario that reflect the kind of thinking students will do in today’s demanding graduate and business school programmers.

Important Score Reporting in Information You Need To Know:

If you take the GRE revised general test during the special discount period of august September 2011 your scores will be sent by mid – November. However,if you need your scores before November, you need to take the count test before august.

Revised General Test Format

GRE Test Versions

There are two versions of GRE test:

• GRE general test and
•  GRE subject test

GRE General Test

This test is open to all candidates, irrespective of their age of educational background. Generally taken by prospective graduate and business school students, this test measures verbal reasoning, analytical writing, critical writing and quantitative reasoning skills of a candidate.

GRE Subject Test

This version of GRE exam assesses candidates knowledge level and accomplishments in a specific field of study unlike the GRE general test this test is available only twice in a year and can be taken only as the paper based test.

GRE scores of this fest are often required for doctoral programme’s in the US though some universities require the GRE subject test scores for master’s level programme’s too.

The eight subjects in whom the GRE subject test is presently conducted are:

• Biochemistry, Cell and molecular biology
•  Biology
•  Chemistry
•  Computer science

English literature

• Mathematics
• Physics, and
• Psychology

GRE Exam Format

Total time allotted for:

• Computer adaptive test: 3 ¾ Hours
• Paper-based test: 3 ¾ Hours

Analytical writing section always appears first in the test followed by verbal, quantitative and unidentified (if applicable) section in any order. If there is a research section, it always appears at the end of the test.

Test Format for Computer–Based Test:

Test Format for Paper – Based Test:

GRE 2018 Exam – Tips & Strategies for Improved GRE Score

• Before you appear in this test know the sections of the test, the type of questions asked in each section, hold many questions are asked in a particular section and the time allotted for each section.
• Attempt as many GRE practice tests and GRE sample tests as possible, as they will familiarize with the general level of the questions that are asked in GRE exam and the directions for questions
• Read the instruction carefully before attempting a question in the actual test.

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