About the GRE Test

If you plan to attend graduate college in the United States or Canada, chances are, you will need to take and pass the GRE test in order to gain admission. GRE stands for Graduate Record Examinations, and this exam is used by many graduate schools to decide who is capable of doing well at their school.

This standardized test is administered by the ETS, which stands for Educational Testing Service. The GRE test is designed to gauge your critical thinking skills, quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning, and your analytical writing skills. As you can see, the GRE tests how well you can understand things rather than your memorization skills.

Depending on the location of the test site, the test will cost $130 at least, and $210 at most. However, certain circumstances will cause the ETS to reduce the amount of fees you have to pay to take the test. If you can prove your economic hardship, then you can gain financial aid from the ETS. After five years, the ETS will erase a test's records.

If you plan on taking the computer-based GRE test, then you have to complete exactly six sections. Analytical writing is the first section, which requires you to do issue and argument essays. After the first section, you will need to do a research or experimental section, two quantitative sections, and two verbal sections.

To complete the GRE test, you will take about four hours. After each section, ETS allows you to take one minute breaks. After you complete the third section, you will be able to take a 10 minute break.

If you're planning to take the GRE test, you have plenty of resources right at your fingertips. Once you register for the GRE test, ETS will give you Power Prep, which is a software. Power Prep includes two prep tests that include retired GRE test questions. Along with the prep tests, there are also practice questions and material you can review.

What you get on the prep tests are extremely good indicators of what score you will get on the GRE test, since the test format and questions are GRE styled. Unfortunately, you can not find any other preparation materiel from other companies with retired material from the GRE.

Passing the GRE is necessary if you want to get into a good graduate school in an English-speaking country, so you should utilize all your resources to pass the GRE.