Overview:
The GRE® General Test is a computer-based exam with question patterns that closely mirror the sort of thinking you’ll undertake and the abilities you’ll need to succeed in today’s competitive graduate programs, including business and law. You may skip questions within a section, go back and alter answers, and have the freedom to decide which questions within a part you wish to answer first thanks to the test’s user-friendly design. Take a peek at the GRE General Test’s layout.
The GRE General Test evaluates your verbal reasoning, mathematical reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing abilities—skills that have been honed through time and are applicable to all fields of study. The three test sections—Analytical Writing, Verbal Reasoning, and Quantitative Reasoning—are covered in the table below.
GRE Format
The analytical writing component assesses your ability to think critically and write analytically. It evaluates your ability to express and defend complicated ideas, analyze and argue, and hold a focused and cohesive discussion. The machine will choose an essay topic for you from a pool of options. You will be required to answer to a specific subject, clearly explaining our points of view on the topic and defending your stance using reasoning and examples. It does not provide you with a topic selection; instead, the computer will present you with a single topic from a pool of options. You must evaluate the stream of reasoning of an argument presented in a brief passage, highlighting the argument's strengths and weaknesses and defending your stance with reasons and examples.
Measures the ability to analyze and draw conclusions from discourse, reason from incomplete data, understand multiple levels of meaning, such as literal, figurative and author’s intent, summarize text, distinguish major from minor points, understand the meanings of words, sentences and entire texts, and understand relationships among words and among concepts. It has 2 sections with 20 questions per section. You have 30 minutes per section.
Measures the ability to understand, interpret and analyze quantitative information, solve problems using mathematical models, and apply the basic concepts of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and data analysis. You have 2 sections with 20 questions per section. You have 35 minutes per section.