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The GRE Test – Registering, Rescheduling and Canceling: Find Out All the Important Details Here!
REGISTERING FOR THE GRE TEST
There are four ways you can register for the computer-based General Test.
1. Online Registration
The easiest and fastest way to register is online. Test takers with credit cards can register online at:
- American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted.
- Registration is open 24 hours a day.
ETS’s ScoreSelect Option: Now You Can Decide Which GRE Scores You Want Universities to See
For students who have given the GRE several times, the worry has always been that the universities they are sending the scores to will see their bad scores along with their good ones. Now, however that is going to change.
The ETS has introduced a feature which it calls the ScoreSelectSM Option which allows you to select which GRE scores you want to send to the universities and colleges you are applying to. Here are the details according to ETS :
The Statement of Purpose ( SOP ): A Document You Can’t Afford to Ignore
The SOP, an essay of specified length which brings out your academic and professional background and achievements, is a uniquely important document. It is a crucial element of your application for MS/PhD programs in American universities.
Why 6 and 8 are Important Numbers for the New GRE Analytical Writing Section
Those numbers are important because they are part of the changes that make Analytical Writing (earlier called the Analytical Writing Measure) trickier and more demanding on the Revised General GRE,which was released in August last year.
So, what are the changes? Firstly as noted above, the essay section is now called just Analytical Writing (or AW for short). The ETS has been making changes in various aspects of the GRE test to make it more like the GMAT. This is one of them. The second is that the Issue Essay is now just for 30 minutes rather than 45 as earlier. This again, makes the GRE more like the GMAT.
GRE Test Prep: Reading Comprehension and Discrete Questions: Challenges & Tips
So, you are preparing for the GRE test. You know that the Verbal section is going to be demanding. What are the big challenges in the Verbal section of the Revised General GRE?
Challenge #1: Reading Comprehension Passages
First, a bit of good bit of news: the Reading Comprehension passages on the Revised GRE test are short. A Verbal section generally contains 5 Reading Comprehension passages, most which are 20-25 lines long; and one of them may be as short as 3-5 lines. The longest passages are of about 40 lines or so. (See ETS’s introduction to reading comprehension, sample questions and tips)
The Challenges in the Verbal Section of the Revised GRE Test (Hint: It has Gotten Tougher)
When the Revised General GRE test was launched (way back on 1 August 2011), a whole host of changes was introduced. One consequence was a revamped Verbal Reasoning part in which there are now:
- two Verbal sections in the test with a total of 40 questions, instead of one section with a total of 30 questions
- no Antonyms and Analogy questions – these have been replaced by more Reading Comprehension passages.
- Text Completion questions (which require you to fill up to 3 blanks in a passage which can contain up to five sentences) and
- Sentence Equivalence questions (which require you to select two correct synonyms to fill in the blank in the sentence out of the 6 options given)
- Sentence Completion questions with single- and double-blanks
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To sum up, Reading Comprehension is now more important, the Sentence Completion type questions got a little harder to get right and Vocabulary is more or less just as important as it was earlier – so, you still have to learn that GRE word list!). As a result of those two changes, students also find the Verbal section harder to complete on time. So, how do you handle that difficulty?
The Revised GRE Test
The GRE test, conducted by ETS Princeton, USA, is one of the world’s most widely used tests for admission to universities both in America and worldwide. On 1 August 2011, the ETS introduced the Revised GRE test. This exam lasts for about 4 hours and consists of 3 major of section types:
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