The GRE General Test
The General Test measures analytical writing, verbal, and quantitative skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study. The test is scored on a scale of 400 to 1600 points, with the Analytical Writing scores ranging from 1 to 6 points.

The Analytical writing section tests your critical thinking and analytical writing skills. It assesses your ability to articulate and support complex ideas, analyze an argument, and sustain a focused and coherent discussion. It does not assess specific content knowledge. It is scored on a scale of 1 to 6.

The Verbal section measures your ability to analyze and evaluate written material and synthesize information obtained from it, to analyze relationships among component parts of sentences, to recognize relationships between words and concepts, and to reason with words in solving problems. There is a balance of passages across different subject matter areas: humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. It is scored on a scale of 200 to 800.

The Quantitative section measures your basic mathematical skills, your understanding of elementary mathematical concepts, and your ability to reason quantitatively and solve problems in a quantitative setting. There is a balance of questions requiring arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and data analysis. These are content areas usually studied in high school. It is scored on a scale of 200 to 800.

Structure of the Computer-Based General Test
The computer-based General Test contains four sections, one of which is an unidentified pretest section that can appear in any position in the test after the analytical writing section. Questions in the pretest section are being tested for possible use in future tests and answers will not count toward your scores. An identified research section that is not scored may also be included and this section would always appear in the final section of the test. Questions in the research section are included for the purpose of ETS research and answers will not count toward your scores.

Total testing time is up to 3 hours and 15 minutes, not including the research section. The directions at the beginning of each section specify the total number of questions in the section and the time allowed for the section. The analytical writing section will always be first. For the Issue task, two topics will be presented and you will choose one. The Argument task does not present a choice of topics; instead, one topic will be presented. The verbal and quantitative sections may appear in any order, including an unidentified verbal or quantitative pretest section. Treat each section presented during your test as if it counts.

SECTION	NUMBER OF QUESTIONS	TIME
Analytical Writing	1 Issue task*	45 min..
	1 Argument task*	30 min
Verbal	30	30 min.
Quantitative	28	45 min
Pretest**	Varies	Varies
Research***	Varies	Varies

* For the Issue task, two essay topics will be presented and you will choose one. The Argument task does not present a choice of topics; instead one topic will be presented.
** An unidentified verbal or quantitative pretest section may be included and may appear in any order after the analytical writing section. It is not counted as part of your score.
*** An identified research section that is not scored may be included and it will always be at the end of the test.

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Our GRE course is individualized for each student. All students starting the course do a full GRE test. Based on this Diagnostic Test, and observing the student’s learning speed we develop a study program, which is different for every student. Their weighted scores determine the time to be given to each study module. Thus a student scoring high on the Mathematics section will have to spend little time in attaining a score of, say, 700+. However, if his Verbal diagnostic score was a low 330, his program will allow more than twice as much time on the Verbal modules.