GRE Course Outline
GRE stands for Graduate Record Examination. This is a Computer-Based exam and the total duration of the exam is 4 hours. There are going to be a total of 6 sections in the exam. The three skills tested in the exam are going Verbal ability, Quantitative ability and Analytical Writing.
To sit for the GRE exam you will have to make an appointment from the dates offered by ETS. You can call 0300-4094094 to check the available dates for the GRE exam. There are about 10-15 dates offered each month for the GRE exam.
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Section |
Time Allowed |
Details |
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1 |
60 minutes |
Analytical Writing Essay 1: Giving one’s perspective on an issue Essay 2: Analyzing an argument (30 minutes each) |
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1-minute break |
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2 |
30 minutes |
Verbal Ability 6 Text completion questions 5 Sentence equivalence questions 9 reading comprehension questions |
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1-minute break |
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3 |
35 minutes |
Quantitative Ability 8 quantitative comparison questions 9 discrete quantitative questions 3 data interpretation questions |
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10-minute break |
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4 |
30 minutes |
Verbal Ability 6 text completion questions 5 sentence equivalence questions 9 reading comprehension questions |
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1-minute break |
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5 |
35 minutes |
Quantitative Ability 6 quantitative comparison questions 10 discrete quantitative questions 3 interpretation questions
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1-minute |
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6 |
30 minutes |
Experimental Section Verbal or Quantitative section |
