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The GRE® Test is the world’s most widely used admissions test for graduate & professional school.
Test Content
The GRE General Test closely reflects the kind of thinking you’ll do in today’s demanding graduate school programs, including business and law. It measures your verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking and analytical writing skills — skills that have been developed over a long period of time and aren’t related to a specific field of study but are important for all.
Verbal Reasoning
The Verbal Reasoning 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
The Quantitative Reasoning section measures your ability to:
-Understand, interpret and analyse quantitative information,
-Solve problems using mathematical models,
-Apply basic skills and elementary concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis.
Analytical Writing
The Analytical Writing section measures your ability to:
-Articulate complex ideas clearly and effectively
-Support ideas with relevant reasons and examples
-Sustain a well-focused, coherent discussion
-Control the elements of standard written English
GRE General Test Structure
The GRE General Test is a computer-delivered test. Its 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.
Test sections and timing (beginning September 22, 2023)
The overall test time is about 1 hour and 58 minutes. There are five sections.
The Analytical Writing section will always be first. The Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning and unidentified/unscored sections may appear in any order after the Analytical Writing section.
