GRE (Graduate Record Examination) Test : Preparation for GRE

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Free, official test preparation materials for the computer-based and paper-based GRE® tests are available to anyone who registers for the GRE tests worldwide or who visits this website. Test Preparation for the GRE General Test — Includes two computer-based GRE General Tests, sample Analytical Writing topics, scored sample essays and reader commentary, test-taking strategies, a math review, and test tutorials.

General test practice book contains one full-length paper-based GRE General Test, test-taking strategies, sample Verbal and Quantitative questions with explanations, sample Analytical Writing topics and scored sample essays and reader commentary. It is sent to individuals who register for the paper-based GRE General Test or may be downloaded here.

Analytical writing section contains a description of the Analytical Writing section, strategies for each task, directions, scoring information, scoring guides, score level descriptions, a sample test and scored essay responses with reader commentary. "Issue" topics and "Argument" topics are available for review.

Quantitative section contains sample questions with explanations.

Math Review contains information on the mathematical skills and concepts likely to be tested on the GRE General Test.

GRE Revised General Test

The GRE Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE revised General Test contains three types of questions:

Reading Comprehension
Text Completion
Sentence Equivalence

Reading Comprehension questions appear in sets; Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions are independent.

Reading Comprehension Questions
There are three types of Reading Comprehension questions:

Multiple-choice Questions - Select One Answer Choice: These are the traditional multiple-choice questions with five answer choices of which you must select one.

Multiple-choice Questions-Select One or More Answer Choices: These provide three answer choices and ask you to select all that are correct; one, two or all three of the answer choices may be correct. To gain credit for these questions, you must select all the correct answers, and only those; there is no credit for partially correct answers.

Select-in-Passage: The question asks you to click on the sentence in the passage that meets a certain description. To answer the question, you choose one of the sentences and click on it; clicking anywhere on a sentence will highlight it.

Reading comprehension passages are drawn from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, the social sciences, the arts and humanities, and everyday topics, and are based on material found in books and periodicals, both academic and nonacademic. The passages range in length from one paragraph to four or five paragraphs.

Text Completion Questions
Text Completion questions include a passage composed of one to five sentences with one to three blanks. There are three answer choices per blank, or five answer choices if there is a single blank. There is a single correct answer, consisting of one choice for each blank. You receive no credit for partially correct answers.

Sentence Equivalence Questions
Sentence Equivalence questions consist of a single sentence, one blank, and six answer choices. These questions require you to select two of the answer choices. You receive no credit for partially correct answers.

The revised Quantitative Reasoning section contains four types of questions:

Multiple-choice Questions- Select One Answer Choice
Multiple-choice Questions - Select One or More Answer Choices
Numeric Entry Questions
Quantitative Comparison Questions

Each question appears either independently as a discrete question or as part of a set of questions called a Data Interpretation set. All of the questions in a Data Interpretation set are based on the same data presented in tables, graphs or other displays of data. Below are descriptions, directions and samples of each type of question.

Multiple-choice Questions - Select One Answer Choice
These questions are multiple-choice questions that ask you to select only one answer choice from a list of five choices.

Multiple-choice Questions - Select One or More Answer Choices
These questions are multiple-choice questions that ask you to select one or more answer choices from a list of choices. A question may or may not specify the number of choices to select.

Numeric Entry Questions
Questions of this type ask you either to enter the answer as an integer or a decimal in a single answer box or to enter it as a fraction in two separate boxes — one for the numerator and one for the denominator. In the computer-based test, the computer mouse and keyboard are used to enter the answer.

Quantitative Comparison Questions
Questions of this type ask you to compare two quantities - Quantity A and Quantity B- and then determine which of four statements describes the comparison.

The Analytical Writing section of the GRE® revised General Test consists of two separately timed analytical writing tasks:

An Analyze an Issue task
An Analyze an Argument task

Analyze An Issue Task
The Analyze an Issue task assesses your ability to think critically about a topic of general interest and to clearly express your thoughts about it in writing. Each issue statement makes a claim that you can discuss from various perspectives and apply to many different situations or conditions.

Analyze An Argument Task
The Analyze an Argument task assesses your ability to understand, analyze and evaluate arguments and to clearly convey your evaluation in writing. You are presented with a brief passage in which the author makes a case for some course of action or interpretation of events by presenting claims backed by reasons and evidence. Your task is to discuss the logical soundness of the author's case according to the specific instructions by critically examining the line of reasoning and the use of evidence.