GRE

Graduate Record Examination

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is one of the innovative kind of entrance examinations that is likely available to the students to prove their abilities in support of acquiring dream admissions to their desired colleges/universities. The GRE one of the significant entrance examination that is been conducted as an admission requirement by many of the graduate schools in the United States of America and other English speaking countries, worldwide. This is been conducted successfully till date by the world largest private, non-profit organization for education testing and assessment, namely the Education Testing Service (ETS), which also administers, conducting the test procedures international tests, such as TOEFL, and TOEIC. Especially, the GRE scores are accepted by most of the management institutions/business schools for their admission procedures across the world.

GRE Pattern

It comprises of three sections namely, the verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning and analytical writing. The verbal reasoning section consists of interrelated relationship between the words and concepts of the same. All you have to do is to analyze and evaluate the written materials and the given parts of the sentences. The quantitative section comprises of basic concepts of algebra, arithmetic, geometry and data analysis. It measures the problem solving abilities of the students/candidates/professionals.

The analytical writing section requires the students to articulate the complex logic with proper reasons and examples. The capabilities such as, focus on the subject/topic, examining each arguments clearly and providing the evidences in support to the arguments, etc… would be analyzed in this section.

GRE Scores

The verbal and the quantitative scores depend on the performance of the students in the examination, meaning, depends on the number of questions that are being attended within the given time period. The best part of these sections is that the computer selects the complex/difficult level of the questions, depending upon the performance of the students in the preceding questions. the verbal and the quantitative reasoning scores are reported on a 200-800 score scale in 10 points increments.

The writing section measures the critical thinking and analytical writing skills of the students, rather than concentrating on the grammar and mechanics of framing the answers. The essays would then be rated in the holistic six point scale by a trained reader. The rates would be provided based on the overall response to the essay writing and the performance of the student on each assigned task. The essay scores would then be reviewed by the computerized program of the ETS called as the ‘e-rater’. If both the e-rater’s evaluation and the score provided by the human evaluator, get agreed upon, then the score provided by the human evaluator would be considered as the final one, otherwise again the essay would be evaluated by another trained human reader, and the result would be the average of the scores provided by both the human evaluators. The analytical writing scores would be reported on a 0-6 score scale and in half point increments.

It has also come up with many new features and facilities, as a kind of support to the students, such as ETS Personal Potential Index, GRE Search Service, and ETS My Credentials Vault. Thus, by all means it is enhancing the students’ future and hence, it is ultimately the students’ part to take part in the examinations like GRE to nurture their future!


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